H. ARTHUR BELLOWS JR.

’56 STEPS DOWN AS BOARD OF TRUSTEES PRESIDENT - PAGE 14

R.W. “Johnny” Apple

1934 - 2006
The Alumni Record of Western Reserve Academy • Fall 2006
 2006-2007 BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Mark R. Tercek ’75, Daniel W. Christman ’61 Joy P. Murdough Angela Gotthardt,
President Alexandria, Va. Hudson, Ohio Pioneer Women President
Irvington, N.Y. Kathryn Irene Clark ’76 Richard W. Neu Hudson, Ohio
Stephan W. Cole ’66, Ann Arbor, Mich. Hudson, Ohio Charles E. Mullins ’65,
Vice President H. Andrew Decker ’72 Katie Ong-Landini ’83 Alumni Association President
Jupiter, Fla. Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Shaker Heights, Ohio Olney, Md.
R. Mark Hamlin Jr. ’74, Stephen W. DeWitt ’84 Gregory Pennington ’71 TRUSTEE EMERITI
Vice President Hillsboro, Calif. Lithonia, Ga. H. Arthur Bellows Jr. ’56
Akron, Ohio Greenwich, Conn.
Ruth Swetland Eppig R. Lawrence Roth
David M. Hunter ’68, Shaker Heights, Ohio New York, N.Y. Jefferson W. Keener, Jr. ’50
Vice President Akron, Ohio
Silver Lake, Ohio Dagmar F. Fellowes ’75 Jason Wortendyke ’94
Pepper Pike, Ohio Chicago, Ill. T. Dixon Long ’51
Olin J. Heestand Jr. ’62, San Anselmo, Calif
Treasurer John M. Fowler ’67 SPECIAL TRUSTEES
Chicago, Ill. Bronxville, N.Y. Gary Stevens, John D. Ong
Ronald M. Harrington ’87 Dads Club President Hudson, Ohio
Fred A. Cummings ’85,
Assistant Treasurer Hudson, Ohio Hudson, Ohio David W. Swetland ’34
Moreland Hills, Ohio Peter S. Hellman ’68 Henry E. Flanagan Jr., Alna, Maine
Timothy R. Warner ’69, Hunting Valley, Ohio Headmaster David Warshawsky ’51
Secretary Robert T. Michael ’60 Hudson, Ohio Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Menlo Park, Calif Chicago, Ill. Nicholas A. Gallucci ’03, David H. Wilson ’38
Hamilton S. Amer ’69 Andrew R. Midler ’79 College Trustee Portland, Ore.
Akron, Ohio St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Akron, Ohio
Islands

2006-2007 BOARD OF VISITORS

William H. Durham ’67, Theodore S. Gup ’68 Stephen E. Myers ’61 Bruce G. Stevenson ’74
Co-chair Pepper Pike, Ohio Hudson, Ohio Wilton, Conn.
Palo Alto, Calif. John P. Hewko ’75 Ford J. Nicholson ’73 Shannah Tharp-Taylor ’91
Anne Campbell Washington, D.C. Dellwood, Minn. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Goodman ’84, Amy Kikue Iwano ’80 Robert G. Perry ’86 Cynthia Van Osdol ’77
Co-chair Chicago, Ill. University Heights, Ohio Chicago, Ill.
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
John G. Kirk ’56 Melvin Rhodren ’72 Mark J. Welshimer ’69
Lauren M. Anderson ’97 Santa Barbara, Calif. Arlington, Va. Bronxville, N.Y.
Studio City, Calif.
Dale G. Kramer ’70 Richard L. Rundell ’76 Brooke Sterne
Thomas E. Dunne ’84 Broadview Heights, Ohio Belmont, Mass. Whittemore ’86
New York City, N.Y. Hartford, Conn.
Cecily Pryce Maguire ’78 Paul T. Schumacher ’84
Susan J. Grant ’84 New York, N.Y. Canton, Ohio Mark H. Wiedenmann ’69
Lafayette, Colo. Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif.
Anne C. Manganaro ’75 Richard A. Shorr ’73
Margaret H. Green ’92 Potomac, Md. Newtown Square, Pa.
Kansas City, Mo.
Julie T. Miran ’78 Jennifer A. Soros ’88
Christian F. Gulker ’69 Pottstown, Pa. New York, N.Y.
Menlo Park, Calif.
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Reserve
14 An Asset to Reserve
H. Arthur Bellows Jr. ’56 steps down
as Board of Trustees president.

Fall 2006 20 The Artist’s Touch

Volume 61, No. 1 Alumni use a variety of mediums to
express their creativity. 14
Departments

6 Along Brick Row

Senior’s paper published
in Concord Review.
30 Aging Gracefully
From its humble beginnings, the boys
soccer team has grown into a power.
46 Old Reserve
Early coeds were true
Reserve pioneers.

49 Alumni Association
34 Nearing the End 20
News The Campaign for Reserve nears the
David Hunter ’68 earns end of a successful fundraising effort.
Alumni Association
Award.
36 Reunion 2006
50 Class Notes Take a look back at a fun-filled
weekend of laughter and memories.
85 In Memoriam

Inside
30
45 Alumni & Development
News

48 Alumni Association News On the Cover:

Legendary New
Cover York Times writer
PHOTO COURTESY OF
R.W. “Johnny”
KENTUCKY AUTHOR
FORUM PRESENTS Apple passes
away at age 71.
His classmate,
James
Gramentine,
shares some 36
memories on
Page 8.
 Along Brick Row
Art teacher recognized for glass work
Glass vessel created
by Tom Armbruster included
in New Glass Review.
glass vessel created by
A Western Reserve Academy art
instructor Tom Armbruster
has been included in New Glass
Review, a survey of 100 images pub-
lished each spring by the Corning
Museum of Glass.
The Corning Museum of Glass
annually invites artists, craftspeople,
designers and architects worldwide to
submit slide
“I applaud the images of
search for new new works
structures in the using glass.
This year,
vessel genre. the museum
Light penetrating received
the varied wall more than
thicknesses makes 2,400 entries
from 39
the piece glow countries.
with life.” Armbruster’s
Joel Philip Myers entry employed
Corning Museum the pate de
juror verre glass
casting tech-
nique and was one of 100 pieces rep-
resenting 20 countries chosen by a
jury of curators, artists, designers, art
dealers and critics.
Honored to be included in New
Glass Review for the third time in 20
years, Armbruster explains, “I
allowed myself to try to convey in the
vessel form a number of influences,
in particular African sculpture and
non-western art. It’s about form and
dynamic.”
Armbruster created the large
glass vessel in his home studio, an
1850 restored one-room schoolhouse
in Hudson where he and his wife,
Pat, reside.
“I am a traditional studio artist. I
prefer to work alone in the quiet of
my studio. My glass vessel work
2 Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006
Tom Armbruster used the pate de verre
glass casting technique to create his glass
vessels.
reflects a very obscure path of investi-
gation that I have allowed myself to
follow. I have been trying to express a
dynamic of form relationships and
light within the vessel format.”
According to Corning Museum
juror and artist Joel Philip Myers,
Armbruster achieved his objective. “I
applaud the search for new structures
in the vessel genre,” Myers notes in
his evaluation of the glass work. He
adds, “Light penetrating the varied
wall thicknesses makes the piece
glow with life.”
On the Web
Reserve’s Artline Gallery is an online
exhibit of visual art by Western Reserve
Academy students, faculty and staff. It is
organized and maintained this year by
Billy Guilford ’07, the Artline Gallery
director. To visit the gallery, go to
www.wra.net/academics/visualarts.cfm.
Of late, Armbruster is developing
a series of glass sculptures that are
not vessels. Instead, they are tall
pieces that have been carefully carved
by a sandblaster with imagery influ-
enced by stone formations and early
architecture garnered from his travels
to Ireland.
A 3-D art instructor at Reserve
since 1983, the accomplished artist
shares his approach to teaching: “I try
to be helpful with students by sharing
my knowledge and love for making
art, while allowing them to develop
their own ideas, to take risks and
become self-critical.”
His students generally begin by
working with plaster, clay sculptures,
pottery, wood, metal and plastics.
Advanced students may also work
with stone and wood carving, steel and
copper fabricating, fabric dying, jewel-
ry and advanced ceramic techniques.
In addition to his recent honor,
Armbruster has been a recipient of a
National Endowment for the Arts
Craftsman’s Fellowship and three
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist
Fellowships. His works can be found
in the Corning Museum of Glass, the
James A. Michener Collection at Kent
State University and The Corporate
Collection of the Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Co.
Art teacher Tom Armbruster’s glass vessel was one of
100 pieces selected from 2,400 entries worldwide to be
included in New Glass Review.

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OSU history professor

named Knight Fellow
ational Book Award winner Kevin Boyle, a profes-

N sor of history at Ohio State University, has been

selected as this year’s Knight Fellow. Boyle will be
on campus Feb. 18-21, offering three all-school presenta-
tions, visiting history classes and spending time in WRA
dormitories for informal conversation with interested stu-
dents. Established at Reserve in 1972, the annual fellow-
ship seeks to bring students into contact with an expert in
a selected field.
An authority on 20th-century American history, with an
emphasis on class, race and politics, Boyle received the
2004 National Book Award for nonfiction for Arc of Justice:
A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age.
The book chronicles a key 1920s civil rights case that
occurred in Boyle’s hometown of Detroit. When Ossian
Sweet, a black physician, moved with his family into a
white neighborhood, violence erupted and one person was
killed. Famed attorney Clarence Darrow defended Sweet in
a dramatic trial that ended in his acquittal, and which high-
lighted the early fight against housing segregation and the
right of blacks to protect their property. Arc of Justice also
won several other awards and was a finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
“Kevin Boyle makes history personal and exciting for Photo courtesy of The Ohio State University - Photo Services
his audience,” commented WRA history teacher Sarah National Book Award winner Kevin Boyle will be on campus in
Horgan, who also chairs Reserve’s senior seminar pro- February as this year’s Knight Fellow.
gram. “His boyish exuberance and obvious passion for his
subject draw you in and make it impossible for his audi- American Liberalism, 1945-1968 and Muddy Boots and
ence not to become equally engaged in the topic. He Ragged Aprons: Images of Working-Class Detroit, 1900-
seems to love a good question-and-answer session and so 1930. His articles, essays and reviews have appeared in
should be an ideal Knight Fellow. I’m thrilled to have him numerous journals, anthologies and newspapers. He has
here on campus.” held fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the
Boyle earned his bachelor’s degree from the University Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the
of Detroit and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies
He is also the author of The UAW and the Heyday of and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

in the National Merit program

Eleven earn National Merit recognition because of their high scores on the
PSAT/NMSQT: Jordan Bilich,
leven members of the Class of

E
2007 were recognized this fall
by the 52nd annual National
Merit Scholarship Program for their
outstanding results on the 2005
Preliminary SAT/National Merit
Scholarship Qualifying Test
(PSAT/NMSQT). More than 1.4 mil-
lion juniors in nearly 21,000 high
schools entered the 2007 competition.
Six seniors were named semifi-
nalists of the program, with an oppor-
tunity to continue in the competition
for Merit Scholarship awards: Cecilia
Chen, Amanda Daniels, Melanie
Kenney, Maeve McMahon, Tamara
Movsesova and Stephen Weingold.
As semifinalists, these six students
will vie with approximately 16,000
other semifinalists nationwide for
more than 8,000 scholarship awards,
worth $33 million.
In addition, five seniors were
recognized as commended students
Jennifer D’Auria, Elizabeth Foster,
John-Alex Shoaff and Erica Walker.
Scholarship awards through the
program are underwritten by the
National Merit Scholarship
Corporation’s own funds as well as
those of 500 business organizations,
colleges and universities. Less than
one percent of all U.S. high school
seniors are named National Merit
semifinalists; finalists will be
announced in February.

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English lacrosse team trains at Reserve

or a few days in early July, the

F Reserve campus was a focal

point for lacrosse fans world-
wide. With the 2006 ILF Warrior
World Lacrosse Championship sched-
uled for London, Ont., Canada, July
13-22, the English national team
made Reserve
its training and
practice head-
quarters. In
addition,
Reserve
Headmaster
Henry “Skip”
Flanagan Jr.
served as a
coach for the
British team,
which finished
fifth among the
21 national
teams that competed in the ILF
Championship series.
Headmaster Henry Flanagan Jr. helped coach the English national lacrosse team when
The British team’s visit to they trained at Reserve over the summer.
Hudson and Flanagan’s role as one of
its coaches began to take shape three “The facilities were amazing Flanagan’s lacrosse cap. He has been
years ago at the NCAA lacrosse con- recognized by U.S. Lacrosse, the
vention. and the (host) families were national governing body of men’s and
“Ritchie Moran, a former Cornell fantastic.” women’s lacrosse, for earning his
coach now involved in international Ravi “Baggie” Sitlani 200th career victory. His record at the
play, introduced me to the English English coach secondary school level is 252-34. The
coaching staff and suggested that I 2005-06 Reserve team that he coached
would be a good candidate to join were fantastic,” he said. finished 19th in the nation, as ranked
them,” Flanagan explained. “In the While in Hudson, the team played by the magazine Inside Lacrosse.
summer of 2005, I was invited to three exhibition games in preparation Flanagan also has been named to the
England and named as an assistant for the world competition. One was Ohio Chapter of The Lacrosse Hall of
coach for this year’s games in Canada.” against the Ohio College All-Stars, a Fame and to the Avon Old Farms
Flanagan then began thinking that team that featured four Reserve alum- School Hall of Fame in Connecticut.
Hudson would be a good training ni, including Jason Griffith ’03, He previously coached at Avon Old
venue for the team, given its relative Anthony Glass ’04, Matt Scheel ’04 Farms and at The Peddie School after
proximity to London, Ont. and Max Cutchin ’05. beginning his coaching career at
“I thought it would be good for The ILF Warrior World Lacrosse Princeton University.
England to come to the U.S. heartland Championship is that sport’s equiva- Flanagan is proud that England
and see a town like Hudson,” he said. lent to soccer’s World Cup, according came to Reserve for its training, and
“As it turns out, we had great support to Sitlani. It is played every four notes that it was a mutually beneficial
from a number of host families here, years, with the previous two tourna- experience.
and from the town merchants and our ments being held in Perth, Australia, “We were pleased to provide our
principal sponsors, Midwest Lacrosse and Baltimore. Sitlani said that the great facilities to the team, and at the
in Columbus and Joe Boxer.” English team, which had been togeth- same time, we have been truly hon-
English coach and team er for about 18 months, included 23 ored to have an international team on
spokesman Ravi “Baggie” Sitlani was players and six reserves ranging in campus,” he said. “The visibility for
impressed by his visit to Hudson and age from 16 to 28. the Academy was quite positive and
the Reserve campus. “The facilities The honor of coaching the English we gained national publicity through
were amazing and the (host) families team is just one of several feathers in Inside Lacrosse magazine.”

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Senior’s paper appears
in Concord Review
R
eserve senior Jennifer D’Auria
got some good news this fall:
The day before classes began at
WRA, D’Auria learned that a paper she
had submitted to The Concord Review
had been accepted for publication.
Originally entitled Cessation of
Hostilities: The Controversies
Surrounding the Channel Tunnel, the
paper had initially been an assign-
ment for her sopho-
more history class,
Shaping World
Society.
“Jen is an excel-
lent example of hard
work combining
with native intelli-
gence to produce an
outstanding result,”
Jennifer D’Auria said Jim Bunting,
history department
chair. “She worked incessantly to
revise and polish her paper, and we
are all very proud of her accomplish-
ment.”
D’Auria’s paper is the first by a
Reserve student to be accepted for pub-
lication in The Concord Review. It was
included in the Fall 2006 edition of the
quarterly publication under the title
Channel Tunnel, along with the works
of 10 other high school students.
“Jennifer D’Auria’s paper on the
history of the Channel tunnel was
welcome for her research, her writing
and for her offering a paper which I
believed would be of interest to our
readers around the world,” noted Will
Fitzhugh, editor and founder of the
Review. “We publish about eight per-
cent of the papers we receive.”
D’Auria’s paper focused on the
economical, political and social fac-
tors that hindered the construction of
the Channel tunnel years before its
actual completion. “I contrasted these
reasons against building the Chunnel
with explanations for why it was
eventually built,” she explained.
The idea for the paper, she said,
came from television’s History
Channel. “After watching the History
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Channel’s Modern Marvel series on
the Channel tunnel, I was fascinated
that humans could make such a tun-
nel,” she added. “Wanting to know
more about its construction, I looked
online and found that the Chunnel’s
construction was not just an engineer-
ing wonder: it overcame much oppo-
sition to be built. I then realized that
the Channel tunnel could be a great
research paper topic.”
In 2005, D’Auria’s paper took
first place in the world history catego-
ry of Reserve’s own coveted history
writing contest, an annual competi-
tion that was established and funded
in 2003 by an anonymous donor. The
best of those award-winning papers,
according to Bunting, are then con-
sidered for submission to The
Concord Review.
D’Auria’s reaction to the good
news can be summed up in three
words: “I was ecstatic!” she said.
“When I began my paper for SWS
class, I had not planned on submitting
it to WRA’s history writing contest, let
alone The Concord Review. Up until
that point, the longest paper I had ever
written was five pages.” In contrast,
Concord Review selections average
5,500 words – well over 20 pages.
“The success of this paper is due
to much more than the fact that
Jennifer is a very bright young
woman,” commented Dana
Cunningham, a member of Reserve’s
history department and D’Auria’s
SWS teacher. “We have many of
those here at WRA. What sets her
apart was her willingness to write
draft after draft, happily taking sug-
gestions from Jim (Bunting) and me
about how to make the paper better.
She is a remarkable young woman
and is proof of the value of hard
work. Other students have the ability
to do what she did. Her discipline and
desire are exceptional.”
Despite her keen interest in history,
D’Auria says she plans to major in
mathematics or chemistry in college and
hopes to become a hand or eye surgeon.
Royal archivist
visits Reserve
n Sept. 22, Oliver Everett
O ’62 made a return visit to
the Reserve campus to
offer a brief history lesson about
the madness – or lack thereof –
of King George III.
A former English-Speaking
Union student who spent the
1961-62 academic year at
Reserve,
Everett is
librarian emer-
itus to Queen
Elizabeth II.
As royal librar-
ian, he was
responsible for
the care and
maintenance of
the extensive
Oliver Everett royal collec-
tion of books
and manuscripts at Windsor
Castle. Over the years Everett
has maintained his ties with
America and with WRA; his
son, Will, was himself an ESU
student in 2001-02, and Everett
spoke at Reserve’s 2002 com-
mencement exercises.
In his Chapel presentation to
the Reserve community, Everett
drew on his encyclopedic memo-
ry of British history, people and
dates, and in particular the reign
of George III. His mission, he
told students, was to correct two
misperceptions of the monarch
who presided over the loss of the
American colonies. Sprinkling his
presentation with humor, Everett
offered evidence that the king
was not mad – rather, he was a
lover of books and a patron of the
arts. Everett also maintained that
George III was indeed a friend of
America, one who would have
preferred a political solution to
the conflict between England and
the colonies.
An extensive slide collection
of artworks from the royal col-
lection illustrated Everett’s points
and bolstered his assertions.

College Matriculation
The 117 members of the Class of 2006 gained acceptances at 173 different colleges and universities in the
United States and abroad. Their schools of actual matriculation are represented below, with multiple
matriculants in parentheses.
University of Akron
Alfred University
Amherst College
University of the Arts
Ashland University (2)
Bates College
Bentley College
Bishop’s University (Canada)
Boston University (2)
University of British Columbia
Canisius College
Carnegie Mellon University (3)
Case Western Reserve University
College of Charleston (2)
University of Cincinnati
The Citadel
Claremont-McKenna College
Clark University
Clemson University (2)
Colgate University
Cornell University (2)
Davidson College
DePaul University (2)
Dickinson Collage
DigiPen Institute of Tech
Duke University (2)
Eckerd College
University of Edinburgh (U.K.)
Class of 2006
Embry-Riddle University
Franklin and Marshall College
Franklin College (Switz)
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Gettysburg College
Harvard University
Harvey Mudd College
Indiana University
Kenyon College (2)
Lafayette College (2)
Lehigh University
Lewis & Clark College
Macalester College
Univ. of Maryland-Baltimore County
Miami University (5)
University of Miami
University of Michigan
Middlebury College (2)
New York University (2)
Northwestern University
University of Notre Dame
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Ohio State University – Honors
Ohio Wesleyan University (5)
University of Pennsylvania (2)
Purdue University (3)
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Reed College
Rhodes College
Robert Morris University
University of Rochester
Rollins College (4)
Rutgers University
Skidmore College
Stanford University
University of Strathclyde (U.K.)
Swarthmore College
University of Texas (2)
Towson University
Tulane University
Union College (3)
Universidad Católica (Venezuela)
U.S. Air Force Academy
U.S. Naval Academy (2)
U.S. Military Academy
Vanderbilt University (2)
Virginia Military Institute
Wake Forest University/ESU
Washington University
Wellesley College
Wheaton College (Mass.)
College of Wooster (5)
Wright State University/ESU
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R.W. Apple Jr. ’52 remembered
for his appetite for journalism
Globe-trotter for The New York Times had a career like no other
Editor’s note: Jim Gramentine ’52
wrote the following story about the life
of his classmate, R.W. “Johnny”
Apple Jr.


ince his death on Oct. 4 due to

S complications from thoracic can-

cer, there has been an unprece-
dented outpouring of tributes about
the life and career of John Raymond
W. Apple ’52. In an obituary the next
day, Adam Bernstein wrote for The
Washington Post, “Mr. Apple made
prolific, aggressive and erudite cover-
age his signature.” Todd Purdum, a
protégé, observed in his obit, “Mr.
Apple enjoyed a career like no other
in the modern era of The Times.”
Johnny had considerable experi-
ence as a journalist before he joined
The Times in 1963. He had served as a
copy boy for The Akron Beacon
Journal when 19. He had slaved for Photo courtesy of Kentucky Author Forum Presents
The Daily Princetonian while neglect- R.W. “Johnny” Apple, who passed away Oct. 4, enjoyed a career like no other in the
ing his studies and was eventually sus- modern era of The New York Times.
pended. He was a reporter for The tion was Michael Woloch’s our senior ever wrote for The Times was granted
Wall Street Journal in the early days year. “Johnny was not a manager,” a byline and began on Page 1, accord-
of the civil rights movement, wrote for more than one professional colleague ing to A. M. Rosenthal, then the met-
a general as well as The Newport would later declare, and really he did ropolitan editor. By the end of his
News Daily Press while serving in the not care to be. first year, 72 additional articles would
U.S. Army, and then did distinguished To understand the profound influ- begin on Page 1 under the R. W.
work for NBC News and the Huntley- ence Franklyn Reardon had on Apple, Apple Jr. byline. That is an average of
Brinkley Report, earning an Emmy for one should read Johnny’s own essay, one every five days. Is that the record,
his civil rights reporting. Jiggs, in Without Reserve, available in one wonders? What was the total by
That said, we all know that hardback from the Academy book- the time his career ended 44 years
Johnny Apple first became addicted to store. While at it, also read in the same later? For that matter, has Johnny’s
journalism at the feet of Jiggs book Mike Costello’s delightful essay, career ended even now? A bylined
Reardon in the basement of Seymour Three of the Best, about Reardon, article appeared on Page 1 of the trav-
Hall. There, after considerable but Elinor Roundy and Sam Husat but also el section on Oct. 22, 2006.
well-deserved abuse, he rose to editor about Calvin Trillin and Apple.
of Hardscrabble and sports editor of During those 44 years, Johnny
the weekly Reserve Record. He did A UNIQUE CAREER held numerous posts with The Times,
not make chief editor, for that posi- The first article Johnny Apple writing on countless subjects from

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R.W. “Johnny” Apple was a singular presence at The New York Times almost from the moment he joined the metropolitan staff in
1963. Apple, wearing his Reserve school tie, left, and Joseph Lelyveld, who later became executive editor, at work in the newsroom
of The Times in 1965.
more than 100 countries. “His best
were 1,200-word tapestries of history,
erudition and style,” observed
Purdum; “the worst were clear and
concise but reflected conventional
wisdom that sometimes proved
wrong.” No doubt Apple observers all
have their favorite memories of his
most impressive reporting. Mine are
of his analytical essays, called Q-
heads in the trade, from early 1999,
about the Senate’s trial of the
impeached President Clinton.
Impartial, explaining history and law
as much as current politics, and care-
fully crafted, they helped to relieve an
embarrassed nation and place events
in perspective.
Johnny’s first assignment as a
bureau chief was to Albany, N.Y.,
after two years with The Times; his
last to Washington, D.C., from 1992-
97. In between he held that office in
Saigon, Lagos, Nairobi, Moscow and
London. The latter was his favorite,
enjoyed from 1977 to 1985. I may
have missed a couple of others, but
wherever he may have been an
administrator, he was primarily a
writer and a reporter. Among other
titles held along the way were chief
Washington correspondent, chief cor-
respondent and associate editor, and
surely there were more.
R. W. Apple Jr. may not have won
a Pulitzer, but he was the fourth
Academy graduate to win a Waring
Prize, in 1976. Besides the Emmy, he
also earned the George Polk Award
and the Overseas Press Club Award
Photo courtesy of The New York Times/Redux
for his reporting in Vietnam.
His accomplishments were many,
but it now seems appropriate to pro-
vide the reader with some examples
of Johnny’s writing and insight.
Under the heading, Vietnam: The
Signs of Stalemate, as early as Aug. 7,
1967, he wrote:
And yet, in the opinion of most
disinterested observers, the war is not
going well. Victory is not close at
hand. It may be beyond reach. It is
clearly unlikely in the next year or
even the next two years, and
American officers talk somberly about
fighting here for decades.
In a Chapel talk to the assembled
reunion classes in June 1997, Johnny
offered an observation about Bill
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Clinton. Mind you, this was months
before we or he had any hint of
Monicagate.
What you need to remember . . .
is that all his life Bill Clinton has
believed that he could talk his way
into or out of any situation. And he
has almost always been right. . . . He
has very little discipline.
And in The Times on Sept. 11,
2001:
Today’s devastating and astonish-
ingly well-coordinated attacks on the
World Trade Center towers in New
York and on the Pentagon outside of
Washington plunged the nation into a
warlike struggle against an enemy that
will be hard to identify with certainty
and hard to punish with precision.
The whole nation – to a degree
the whole world – shook as hijacked
airliners plunged into buildings that
symbolize the financial and military
might of the United States. The sense
of security and self-confidence that
Americans take as their birthright
suffered a grievous blow, from which
recovery will be slow. . . .
Scenes of chaos and destruction
evocative of the nightmare world of
Hieronymus Bosch, with smoke and
debris blotting out the sun, were car-
ried by television into homes and
workplaces across the nation.
Space does not permit our doing
justice to Johnny’s wonderful second
career – or was it his fifth? – as a
food and wine critic, world traveler
and bon vivant, the career in which
“my wife, Betsey” has figured so
prominently. His two books, Apple’s
Europe (1987) and Apple’s America
(2005), are important byproducts.
Many of us have enjoyed and profited
from this second career. As colleague
Adam Nagourney stated so well, “He
loved it all. And best of all, he wanted
others to love it just as much.”
TH E ACADEMY YEARS
Johnny Apple’s parents, like those
of most of his classmates, enrolled
him at the Academy in 1948 in order
to enhance his “seriousness of pur-
pose.” They did not succeed.
Though he and I had been born at
the same Akron hospital 53 days apart,
we did not meet until standing in the
10 Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006
R.W. “Johnny” Apple is interviewed by author and former NBC News anchor Tom
Brokaw in July on Kentucky Author Forum Presents.
“Apple...was the best politi-
cal reporter of his era. He
was also the best food writer,
the best wine writer, the best
travel writer and the best
architecture critic, and he
could have been the best gar-
den and sports writer if he
had wanted to be. I know all
this because he told me so.
He was probably right.”
Richard Holbrooke,
Oct. 6, 2006
Academy’s registration line on Day 1.
Both still 13, with cracking voices, we
were signed up for dancing class by
our mothers before we had even
acknowledged each other’s existence.
Years later Johnny would occa-
sionally imply that he had overcome
modest German roots in a small third-
world city located in a remote Middle
America akin to Siberia, but to me he
was at 13 already the epitome of
urbane sophistication. “Seed” was the
instant moniker bestowed on him by
churlish classmates. It derived not
from any hint of backwardness but
rather sprang from the combination of
his name and Ohio (the land of
Johnny Appleseed).
Apple was an instant star at danc-
Photo courtesy of Kentucky Author Forum Presents
ing class – the girls loved him – but a
constant source of frustration for the
all-male faculty. Impulsive, he was
possessed of boundless energy.
Nonetheless it is fair to call him a
classic underachiever, even though he
would finish comfortably in the top
half of our class. His SAT verbal
score would have been off the charts,
had there been charts in 1948.
The Academy in those days
employed a demerit system with the
objective of inhibiting the social
behavior of its denizens. It also
required all freshmen to take half-
credit Industrial Arts. To this day, R.
W. Apple Jr. is the only student in the
annals to have ever received three cir-
cled (inexcusable) tenths (demerits)
for GBWOC. Posted on the public
bulletin board in Seymour Hall, this
was instantly deciphered by us as
Goosing Boy With Oil Can.
Arne Ballonoff, who had not seen
Johnny since graduation, speaks for
many of us when he candidly admits,
“Guess I felt a little more important
because I had brushed elbows with
him at Reserve.” Robert Fay, now a
professor of English at Landmark
College, likewise had not encountered
Apple since 1952 but was moved by
press descriptions in early October:
“These were accounts of the same
independent, high-profile, creative,
expressive individual whom I had

R.W. “Johnny” Apple wrote about many subjects during his more than 40-year career at The Times, ranging from war and revolu-
tion, politics and government, to food and drink. Here he conducts a lunchtime interview with Bellow, star of Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus.
known and admired at WRA.”
“The image of Seed I remember
best,” writes John Byrns, “is his argu-
ing politics incessantly with Jiggs
Reardon. My memory places him on
the conservative side and Jiggs the lib-
eral, which seems odd given his
employment at the Grey Lady.” John
Mickel agrees and points out, “He
really was quite fond of Jiggs and even
then wanted to work for The Times.”
Jan Prokop’s most vivid memory,
however, is of the “constant face-to-
face repartees that he and Scotch
(McGill) had, seemingly every day.
Scotch usually won by dint of his
quiet, authoritative presence, but
Johnny really held his own and
enjoyed it immensely. Words were his
friend even then, and he used them
with relish.”
“In sophomore English class,”
recalls Sidney Buchanan, “we had
been assigned a reading in the
Odyssey. Fred Waring asked, ‘Well,
Photo courtesy of Tony Cenicola/The New York Times/Redux
what do you think of Circe?’ Apple
replied, ‘She’s neat!’ and Waring shot
back, ‘She’s neat says Johnny Apple.
And why?’ For once in his life, Apple
had no worthy response.”
In the spring of that same year
Jim Irwin, Johnny and two others
spent a weekend with Bill Martin at
his home in Lancaster. Irwin recalls
that after a large dinner and an
uneventful evening, “Apple led an
attack on the kitchen refrigerator, con-
suming everything in sight, while I
abstained from the action. Bill’s par-
ents repeatedly pointed out the dan-
gers of excessive consumption, partic-
ularly by Apple, and cited me as an
example worthy of emulation. By 3
a.m. there were indeed loud moans
and groans, as well as evidence of
acute digestive distress. There on the
floor lay the victim in his own vomit,
but he was not Apple. Rather it was I,
soon to be delivered by ambulance to
the community hospital for an emer-
“Mr. Apple made prolific,
aggressive and erudite cover-
age his signature.”
Adam Bernstein,
The Washington Post
gency appendectomy.”
The administration had assigned
Johnny and John Detjens, perhaps the
most upright member of our class, or
at least the one with the highest merit
score, to room together that year for
obvious reasons. On what was per-
haps the only other weekend Johnny
was granted in 1950, he invited
Detjens to his Akron home and was
permitted to take out the family’s
light blue Pontiac. “After driving
around for a while Saturday evening,
Johnny disconnected two of the car’s
six sparkplugs to determine if the car
would make it on partial power up
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one of Akron’s steep hills. We went
pinging and sputtering up the hill
until John was satisfied with the
results of his experiment. He was
curious about everything and willing
to try nearly anything to satisfy that
curiosity.”
A TRUE LEGEND
Following his own distinguished
career in journalism, Kit Kincade ’58
recently referred to Apple as a “leg-
end in his own time,” including
Johnny’s schoolboy career as well as
his adulthood. As day students, “we
paid special attention to those ahead
who broke the rules spectacularly and
successfully. I can recall sitting in The
Record office listening to Jiggs pro-
vide his embellishments on the devel-
oping legend,” including Apple’s get-
ting a job with The Wall Street
Journal after having been bounced for
a second time from Princeton.
It would be interesting to know if
Johnny consciously was influenced by
any of the famous sports writers of the
1950s. To us at least he seemed to
have a distinctive style of his own by
senior year. We are indebted to Jim
Donley for sending in some examples:
Sweeping through a spiritless and
outmanned University School team
with a pulverizing ground and air
attack, the Pioneers last Saturday
wrote a thrilling finis to the season,
32-6, before a crowd that included
virtually the entire student body.
When Sid Buchanan spoke for the
soccer team at Friday night’s rally, he
said that every member of the team Illustration courtesy of Gerald Scarfe
would fight his hardest at Cranbrook. This illustration of R.W. “Johnny” Apple accompanied a 2003 profile in The New
Sid did. Yorker written by his friend Calvin Trillin.
Mike McCally, one of Johnny’s
best friends then and to the end, Though he himself did not attend endorsed Longstreth, a Philadelphia
recalls, “He was a sports stringer for Princeton, Rich Weston ’64 did some ad-man, as “his kind of candidate,”
area newspapers before most of us interesting sleuthing a while ago on GOP leaders are hopeful that he will
knew what a stringer was. He had The Daily Princetonian’s website. By be able to upset Dilworth. But the odds
everything short of the fedora with a November of 1955 Apple already per- are against him. Longstreth, besides
press card in its band.” He also points ceptively linked local politics to being saddled with a corrupt
out that while we all know of national, though his Reserve ties Republican record, has failed to make
Franklyn Reardon’s influence, “John (Stretch had a Republican brother who a dent in the Negro vote, which is
loved history and came to admire Paul ran for mayor of Philadelphia) may expected to swing the victory to
Roundy . . . instilling an Anglophilia have influenced this article as well: Dilworth. A Longstreth win would be a
that served John well when he headed The Longstreth-Dilworth race is victory of major proportions.
The Times’ London bureau.” He cites considered the most important battle An account of another scoop from
Max LaBorde, Fred Waring and Bill from a national point of view by most Princeton has been provided by
Moos as influential as well. politicians. Since President Eisenhower Johnny’s good friend, Bill Martin:

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 “Johnny’s interest in journalism
was focused and encouraged by Jiggs,
but his career was launched at
Princeton. He was on duty at The
Daily Princetonian on the night (April
18) in 1955 when Albert Einstein, then
on the faculty at the Institute for
Advanced Studies, died. Johnny’s cov-
erage scooped the world. His byline
from Princeton appeared in newspa-
pers all over the country. If there had
been any doubt that Johnny would be
– in fact, was – a journalist, there
never would be again.”
John Krogness commented that
our classmate would have enjoyed
this year’s midterm elections and
that we would all have greatly bene-
fited from his analysis. Notable
though his knowledge of politics
was, “of more lasting import was his
vast literacy about the human condi-
tion and his gift in conveying its rel-
evance to the reader.”
Not joining our class until junior
year, Doug Creelman did not know
Johnny as well as some of us. “He
was living right across the hall and by
then was, well . . . Apple. Fully
formed and going – somewhere –
already. At our 50th reunion he
expressed a bit of an interest in me
because I lived in Toronto; he said he
would like to see Jane Jacobs again
and would look us up. He never got
the chance. Jacobs died, but I still
remained anxious that he might
appear and I would need to take him
out to dinner – a daunting prospect.”
Too bad for Doug. He would have
learned, as had many classmates, that
Apple always picked up the tab, or
more accurately, perhaps, The New
York Times did.
Johnny’s roommate senior year
was Jim Taylor. Think of it: a class so
small (Depression born) that two sen-
iors were assigned to each three-room
suite in North Hall. John and Jim
remained good friends, the latter
receiving a telegram from Saigon on
the occasion of his wedding in 1966:
“News of your nuptials more devastat-
ing than a Vietcong attack – Signed,
Apple.” As Jim aptly puts it, “At all
times he was enthusiastic, generous,
and never dull.”
To appreciate the story that fol-
lows, it is helpful to know that during
R.W. “Johnny” Apple questions the accuracy of German teacher Harrison
Kitzmiller’s watch at breakfast during the fall of 1950.
senior year our classmates ceased
using the nickname Scotch had given
me, Groaner, preferring one influenced
by the ethnic derivation of several of
my Cleveland wrestling opponents as
well as by my own supposed ancestry.
In 2000, Johnny was to deliver the
principal commencement address at
Marquette University as well as receive
yet another honorary degree. Since the
university is only 12 miles from our
home, he kindly arranged for my wife
and me to be invited to the ceremony
and also to the president’s luncheon in
John’s honor that followed. He spoke
brilliantly as always and was especially
well received by the undergraduates.
President Robert A. Wild and two
other Jesuit priests happened to be in
the same elevator that my wife and I
took to reach the president’s dining
room at the top of the student center.
We introduced ourselves as we began
a somewhat stilted conversation in the
foyer. Other dignitaries gradually
gathered and, at length, Apple
emerged from his dressing room. I
saw him osmosing down the hall, and
then he spotted me. At a distance of
perhaps 50 feet he exclaimed at the
top of his lungs, “GRAMENWOPPO!
HOW THE HELL ARE YOU?” My
wife, Sarah, gave me a look that
clearly expressed her regret at ever
having known either of us.
FRIENDS TO THE END
Sid Kaplan was Johnny’s room-
mate junior year and, especially in
recent years, has been one of his clos-
est friends from the class. Shortly after
his first chemotherapy session, about a
year ago, John told him, “Sidley, I am
bending, but I am not going to break,”
borrowing a phrase from yesteryear’s
Cleveland Browns. During the months
that followed, Sid checked up on him
frequently, and often that resolve was
repeated. But the last time, five days
before his death, he said, “Sidley, I am
breaking. Goodbye.”
Michael McCally too was fre-
quently in touch with Johnny during
his illness. A distinguished physician,
he helped to assure that Apple was in
the best of hands and assisted in many
other ways, including eventually the
hardest counseling of all. I saw Mike
after Johnny’s death and asked about
describing him as the “consulting
physician,” but he firmly insisted,
“No, I was just a friend.”
Be that as it may, I understand
from Sid that Betsey Apple has
referred to Mike more than once as a
“Prince of a Man.” Friend, however,
will do. It’s what we were, for 58
years and counting.
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 Bellows ’56 ends long tenure
on Board of Trustees
Reserve saw significant
growth, successful campaign
under his leadership.
n June, H. Arthur Bellows Jr. ’56

I stepped down after eight years as

president of Reserve’s Board of
Trustees. A member of the board for
more than 25 years, Bellows was hon-
ored at a luncheon on June 9 on the
Morgan Hall terrace, surrounded by a
group of 50 friends and fellow board
members, past and present.
Bellows’ tenure on the board, and
in particular his time as president,
have been years of significant growth
for the Academy. Over the past eight
years, he has helped guide several
major campus construction projects –
the Ong Library, Murdough Athletic
Center, Metcalf Center, Long House Former board President John Ong
(above) and emeritus Trustee Jefferson
and Garden House among them – as Keener Jr. ’50 (right) share memories of
well as important renovations to their time with H. Arthur Bellows ’56
existing facilities, addressing several (seated) during a retirement luncheon
critical areas of need. He has also led for Bellows at Morgan Hall.
the $40 million Campaign for
Reserve – Share the Vision, the relationship became even more pro-
largest fundraising campaign in the nounced as he led the Academy by
school’s history. Now entering its way of his position as president of the
final weeks, the campaign has board. It has been my longstanding
focused on five key initiatives: faculty belief that when there exists mutual
support, residential life, athletic facili- trust and respect between the head of
ties, scholarships and technology. school and the board president, many
At the retirement luncheon in good results evolve and the institution
June, Headmaster Henry Flanagan Jr. flourishes. One needs only to consider
paid tribute to Bellows’ many years of the Academy today to know the valid-
service. “I have had the good fortune ity of these thoughts.”
of knowing and working with Art Also paying tribute were several
Bellows for over two decades,” emeritus members of the board – part
Flanagan said. “Most recently, that of a group affectionately known as

“Art has been an absolutely amazing performer. He has been omni-present. This
gentleman has topped it all, with a $40 million campaign coming to a close, due
much to his leadership.”
John Ong, former board president
14 Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006
Retiring board President H.
Arthur Bellows ’56 shares a
laugh with his guests, including
Angela Gotthardt, Pioneer
Women president, during a
retirement luncheon held in his
honor at Morgan Hall.

Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006 15

“He’s always faced problems as they came up openly. Art, you’ve made one great
big difference here.”
Jefferson Keener Jr. ’50, trustee emeritus

John Frank, president of The Burton D. Morgan Foundation,

Headmaster Henry Flanagan Jr. and H. Arthur Bellows ’56 at
the dedication of Burton D. Morgan Hall in 2004.
“the brothers.” Four of the five brothers – Bellows,
Jefferson Keener Jr. ’50, T. Dixon Long ’51 and John Ong
– were present. The fifth, David Warshawsky ’51, preced-
ed Bellows as board president. Together, the five represent
well over 100 years of service to the Academy.
“Art has been an absolutely amazing performer,”
said Ong, himself a former Reserve board president. “He
has been omni-present.” Referring to the ongoing
Campaign for Reserve, he added, “This gentleman has
topped it all, with a $40 million campaign coming to a
close, due much to his leadership.”
“We’ve had wonderful times together,” reflected Long,
who served on the board for nearly 30 years. “Making
decisions with this wonderful band of brothers has been
very rewarding.” Headmaster Henry Flanagan Jr. and board President H. Arthur
“He’s always faced problems as they came up openly, Bellows lead the Class of 2006 at Commencement.
and he’s worked closely with the board,” commented
Keener, who retired from the board last year after nearly to develop, define and select the initiatives that provided
four decades of service. “Art, you’ve made one great big the rationale for Share the Vision has been truly reward-
difference here.” ing,” he commented, “and along with the honorary
“Reserve had a significant and very positive impact on chairs, vice chairs and members of the Steering
me during my four years as a student – challenging me Committee, meeting the $40 million goal.”
academically, stimulating and fostering a love of learning, Throughout his tenure, Bellows has maintained that
shaping my values and elevating my personal goals,” Reserve should aspire to be nothing less than the preemi-
reflected Bellows. “Therefore, it has been very special and nent college preparatory boarding school in the country.
personally rewarding to have had the opportunity to work “We should strive to be the best, as measured by our aca-
with trustees, the headmaster and the faculty in an effort to demic, extracurricular and residential programs,” he said,
make this fine school even better.” “not prompted by competition with other boarding
In Bellows’ view, his most important accomplish- schools, but by the objective of delivering the best educa-
ment as board president has been the success of The tional program in the country to shape the lives and values
Campaign for Reserve. “Working with fellow trustees, of our students.”
the headmaster, key faculty and administrative personnel Bellows points to several concrete accomplish-

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During his eight years as president of Reserve’s Board of Trustees, H. Arthur Bellows oversaw tremendous growth at the school,
from the $40 million Campaign for Reserve (at left, announcing the campaign at Reunion 2003), to the opening of several buildings,
including the Ong Library, Morgan Hall, Murdough Athletic Center and Metcalf Center (right, at the dedication).

ments that are helping Reserve to departments and activities. “These are and two private ones, and as chair of
meet that goal. Among them is the important tools,” he says. the board of governors of the
formation of the Admissions and Looking back, Bellows also University Cottage Club, a private
Financial Aid Committee, which reflects with pride on his proposal to eating club serving Princeton students
assists the Admission Office in the board, in 1986, for establishing and alumni. In addition, he remains a
attracting the best qualified stu- what is now known as the Board of board member of Princeton’s
dents, “aided by the establishment Visitors, “to provide an alumni per- Graduate Interclub Council. An avid
of the first merit scholarship pro- spective on issues and policies being skier, squash player and golfer,
gram in the school’s history,” evaluated by the Board of Trustees.” Bellows says he is “still working” on
Bellows notes. A second trustee Looking ahead, Bellows plans improving his skills in all three. He is
committee, the College Placement to stay involved at the Academy as also a keen reader of history, biogra-
Committee, has assisted the College a trustee emeritus, offering assis- phies and international politics. He
Guidance Office in enhancing tance as requested. Currently he and his wife of 38 years, Jody, are
opportunities for graduating stu- remains chair of The Campaign for residents of Greenwich, Conn.; the
dents by providing additional fund- Reserve: “We expect to have a ‘vic- couple has four adult children –
ing and staffing. tory celebration’ early next year,” Maffitt, Alex, Hillary and Jennifer.
Another important step, Bellows he added, “when we will officially Flanagan echoed many within the
asserts, has been the adoption of end the campaign and announce school community when he commented,
“metrics” to measure and track final results publicly.” “Art has left an indelible imprint on
progress in assessing improvement in Bellows also continues to serve as Reserve… and we are that much
the performance of all of the school’s a director of two public companies stronger and more vital as a result.”
“Reserve had a significant and very positive impact on me during my four years as
a student – challenging me academically, stimulating and fostering a love of
learning, shaping my values and elevating my personal goals.”
H. Arthur Bellows ’56
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 Tercek ’75 named president
of Board of Trustees
ark Tercek ’75 has been
M
named the new president of
Reserve’s Board of Trustees,
succeeding H. Arthur Bellows Jr. ’56,
who retired from the board in June after
serving as president for eight years.
“I believe the Trustees have made
an excellent choice in electing Mark
as president
“I love the school. of the
I went to three board,”
great schools – commented
Reserve, Williams Bellows,
noting that
and Harvard – and Tercek has
I’m loyal to all been a
three, but Reserve Trustee
has been the most since 1999,
co-chair of
important in my the invest-
life.” ment com-
mittee and a
Mark Tercek ’75, member of
Board president the execu-
tive, educa-
tion & planning and nominating com-
mittees, as well as part of the steering
committee for The Campaign for
Reserve. “Mark brings a thorough
understanding of the issues and the
opportunities facing the school and a
reputation for strategic focus and
sound judgment among his fellow
trustees. I am confident that he will
have a very positive impact on the
school in the years ahead and I wish
him and Reserve all the best.”
“I’ve had the good fortune to
work closely with John Ong, David
Warshawsky ’51 and most recently
Art Bellows,” said Headmaster Henry
Flanagan Jr. “There is every reason to
believe that Mark Tercek will contin-
ue that tradition of excellence. Mark
brings goodwill, vision, patience and
common sense to this critical post.”
Tercek also brings considerable
18 Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006
experience.
He is cur-
rently a
managing
director and
head of the
office of
corporate
citizenship
for
Goldman
Sachs, the
world’s
Mark Tercek ’75 says his leading
love for Reserve led him investment
to take on the position of bank. He is
president of the Board of
Trustees. also the
executive
director of Goldman Sachs’ Center for
Environmental Markets. Since joining
the firm in 1984, he has headed some
of its most important departments,
including consumer/healthcare, equity
capital markets, corporate finance and
real estate. He also headed Goldman
Sachs’ worldwide transportation
group, co-headed the firm’s corporate
finance department in Tokyo, and was
one of the senior bankers who led the
firm’s early investment banking ini-
tiatives in Asia.
He is also a professor in the
finance department of New York
University’s Stern School of
Business. In addition, Tercek has sat
on several corporate and non-profit
boards. In September he stepped
down as chairman of the board of
Literacy Partners, choosing to con-
centrate his efforts on his role as
Reserve’s board president. He has
also served on several other boards,
including the Leader-to-Leader
Institute, the Urban Land Institute,
Rockefeller Center REIT and the
Rouse Company. An honors graduate
of Williams College, Tercek earned an
“Mark Tercek will continue
the tradition of strong and
compassionate leadership
which has benefited the board
for many generations of
presidents. At the same time,
he has some wonderful ideas
and will challenge every one
of us to take it up a notch.”
R. Mark Hamlin Jr. ’74,
Trustee
MBA with distinction from Harvard.
“Mark Tercek will continue the tra-
dition of strong and compassionate lead-
ership which has benefited the board for
many generations of presidents,” said
trustee R. Mark Hamlin Jr. ’74, who
chairs the board’s nominating commit-
tee. “At the same time, he has some
wonderful ideas and will challenge
every one of us to take it up a notch.”
Citing the Academy’s many
strengths, Tercek is enthusiastic about
Reserve’s future. “The school is in
great shape,” he said. “Obviously, the
physical plant is in extraordinary
shape – anyone who hasn’t visited the
campus lately really should. There are
those who have asked if all the recent
building is really necessary. In my
opinion, it is long overdue. We’ve
now caught up in a powerful way and
can provide an extraordinary educa-
tional experience to our students.”
Another significant asset, Tercek
maintains, is Reserve’s financial
strength. “We’re about to close on a
$40 million campaign – that is also a
powerful accomplishment,” he
reflected. “Alumni and friends should
be proud of where the school stands.”
Also vitally important, of course,
are the people. “I’m privileged to be
working with an excellent Board of
Trustees, and the school is very well
served by the Board of Visitors and the
Alumni Association Board, as well,”
Tercek said. “The headmaster, the facul-
ty and administration, the students, par-
ents and alumni – these are among
Reserve’s strongest assets. Certainly
there are challenges ahead. Costs con-
tinue to rise, and we’ll have to work
hard to continue to get the best students.
But I’m confident that this school will
meet those challenges head on.”
Why take on such a labor-intensive
role? “I love the school,” Tercek says
simply. “I went to three great schools –
Reserve, Williams and Harvard – and
I’m loyal to all three, but Reserve has
been the most important in my life.
And I met my wife, Amy, here. I sim-
ply couldn’t be more grateful.
“It’s also fun. We have a great
board and I like working with them.
And I’m ambitious for the school; I’d
like to see Reserve become even better.”
He sees the board’s role, he says,
primarily as one of oversight. “We set
the strategic direction for the school,
and make sure the day-to-day activi-
ties address this,” he says. “We also
want to strengthen the school’s differ-
ent constituencies – alumni, for exam-
ple. I want alumni to know it’s impor-
tant for them to get involved in what-
ever ways they can, and that the Board
of Visitors and Alumni Association
Board, as well as the Board of
Trustees, are valuable groups that
make a real difference to this school.”
Tercek’s ties to Northeast Ohio
run deep. He grew up in Cleveland
and was once a newspaper delivery
boy for The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer.
A scholarship allowed him to attend
Reserve, one of four Tercek brothers
to graduate from the Academy. He and
his wife, Amy Stark Tercek ’75, were
married in the Reserve Chapel 20
years ago. The Terceks live in
Irvington, N.Y., with their four chil-
dren: Alison, Margo, Luke and Rex.
Despite the distance, Tercek says he
plans to be a “hands-on” board presi-
dent. With local family ties – his mother
is a longtime Hudson resident – he
makes frequent visits to Ohio, and he
looks forward to serving the school in
his new role. “It’s a great honor for me
to work with my fellow trustees in lead-
ing the Academy forward,” he added.
Trustees welcome new members
n addition to naming Mark Tercek ’75 president, Western Reserve
I Academy’s Board of Trustees welcomed two new members for the
2006-07 year.
Jason Wortendyke ’94 is currently a director at UBS
Investment Bank, based in Chicago. He has been
involved in a wide variety of strategic and capital-rais-
ing transactions for a range of clients in the Midwest.
Prior to joining UBS Investment Bank in May 2004,
Wortendyke was a vice president at Credit Suisse First
Boston, where he began his career in 1998.
He is a graduate of Princeton University, where he
majored in economics and East Asian studies. He has
acted as head of Midwest fundraising for his Princeton
Wortendyke
class for major reunions, and is a member of the
Princeton Young Alumni Board.
Prior to be named a Trustee, Wortendyke served on Reserve’s Board
of Visitors. He and his wife, Marina Birch, live in Chicago with their two
dogs.
Ron Harrington ’87 is president and CEO of Edgepark Surgical – a
national distributor of disposable medical products.
He is a 1991 graduate of Kenyon College, where he
earned a bachelor’s degree in political science. After
college he moved to Washington, D.C., to join a health
care company as a regional sales manager. In 1993 he
returned to Cleveland to join the family business at
Edgepark Surgical.
Harrington and his wife, Lydia Eppig ’97, live in
Hudson. His favorite hobbies include long-distance run-
ning, fly fishing and spending time with Buddy and
Harrington Bella – his two Labrador retrievers.
Two members also joined the board in 2005-06.
Lt. Gen. (ret.) Daniel Christman ’61 is senior vice president for inter-
national affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He
is responsible for representing the chamber before for-
eign business leaders and government officials, and for
providing strategic leadership on international issues
affecting the business community.
Christman served for five years as superintendent of
the U.S. Military Academy. Prior to that, he served two
years as assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, during which time he traveled with and advised
Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
He lives in Alexandria, Va., with Christman
his wife, Susan.
Dr. Gregory Pennington ’71 is currently a senior
consultant and corporate psychologist with RHR
International in Atlanta.
He is a 1975 graduate of Harvard University and
earned his doctorate from the University of North
Carolina in 1994. He is a former member of Reserve’s
Board of Visitors.
Pennington and his wife, Kristy, reside in Lithonia,
Pennington Ga., with their daughter, Kalin, and son, Kyle.
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 Axpression
rtistic
E ALUMNI FIND A VARIETY OF WAYS
TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES

T
he word “artist,” in the context
of the visual arts, can conjure
up all kinds of images –
painters, sculptors and illustrators, for
example. One might envision such
great artists as Rembrandt, Picasso,
Rodin and Calder, while others think
of the “starving artists” pitched on
spective on the socio-economic state
of the world. What they have in com-
mon, however, is that they are all
commercially successful or are rapid-
ly becoming so. They also add a new
dimension to an increasingly diverse
body of Reserve alumni careers.
STEPHEN WHITE ’57
continue his light sculpture work.
There, he created a collection of 18
lanterns, which he displayed in an
Anchorage gallery.
“They were a mixture of rectilin-
ear, curvilinear and angular shapes
ranging from 14 inches in diameter to
seven feet tall,” White recalls. “I used

television (sofa-sized paintings only
$39!). But one thing is clear – both
creating art and appreciating it are
highly personal experiences. One
artist’s talent is another’s frustration.
What is great art to some is viewed as
fit only to line the bottom of a bird
cage to others.
Over the years, a number of
Reserve alumni have become accom-
plished artists. Many of them seem to
have inherited their talent from simi-
larly successful family members. But
they also needed inspiration and moti-
vation to recognize and develop their
talent. Often, that inspiration and
motivation came while they were at
Reserve, from the likes of Bill Moos,
Alan Doe, Peggy Kwong Gordon,
Tom Armbruster and others who have
been a part of the art department fac-
ulty. In a few cases, their artistic
skills blossomed a bit later in life.
The Alumni Record recently
caught up with seven alumni from
various eras who are now profession-
al artists. Their media are as varied as
their styles and subjects. Their works
reflect their physical environments,
their life experiences, or their per-
F
orty years ago, Stephen much more
White needed a light fixture
“Originality is color with
for his home. But rather than what keeps me those pieces
going to his local lighting emporium, going. I would than I do
he decided to build one – out of paper have quit long now. They
and wood. Shortly thereafter, he made were basical-
and installed a second one in the
ago if I had to ly white, but
Hudson home built by his parents. make the same colored
The fixture still hangs there, along ones over and papers in
with two others, all appreciated daily geometric or
over again.” vaguely rep-
by the home’s current owners, retired
Reserve teachers Bob and Velia Stephen resentational
Pryce. Several more lights followed, White ’57 shapes were
created for friends at a craft gallery in incorporated
the Hudson area. Today he is still into the many layers of their translu-
building light fixtures out of paper cent paper skins.”
and wood. They are quite functional, Following his Air Force dis-
to be sure, but more than that they are charge, White planned a two-week
true one-of-a-kind artistic creations. vacation in Hawaii. He stayed six
Following his graduation from years. While there, he continued to
Carnegie Institute of Technology with create with light and also pursued an
a degree in architecture, White volun- architectural apprenticeship. Over
teered for the Air Force and complet- time, he came to realize that light
ed officer’s training. His goal was to sculpture was more satisfying than
be an Air Force architect, but he was architecture. As in Alaska, his
assigned maintenance and repair Hawaiian works were inspired by the
duties instead. Time spent in the bar- natural beauty of his surroundings.
ren land above the Arctic Circle in White moved to Oregon in 1986
Alaska gave White the inspiration to and now lives in Eugene, where he

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Stephen White works on a light fixture in his studio. His fixtures are made by laminat-
ing a dozen or more layers of high-quality tissue onto wooden frames.
works in his home studio. He esti-
mates that he has created about 2,000
fixtures over the last 40 years. All are
crafted by laminating a dozen or more
thin layers of high-quality tissue onto
wooden frames with white glue. His
current frame material of choice is
basket reed, but he has also used
wood shade material and other types
of wood, depending on the size and
type of fixture. Only for rare limited
editions does he ever create two alike.
“Originality is what keeps me going,”
White says. “I would have quit long
ago if I had to make the same ones
over and over again.” Sometimes his
designs are inspired by nature; many
resemble sea shells. At other times, he
says that the materials themselves
inspire a design. Depending on size, a
fixture can take about 50 hours to
complete. He currently has a backlog
of orders of three to four months.
White’s work is displayed on the
Luminessence pages of
corriecroft.com and at retail galleries
in Washington, Oregon, California
and Texas, and at trade galleries in
Texas, California and Hawaii. “Much
of my work is custom-ordered,”
White says. “It is not unusual for me
to visit a home and consult with the
owners on design.” He adds that
markets for his lights shift from time
to time. “Los Angeles is my hottest
market right now. It was Seattle, and
there was a good market in Hawaii
when I lived there.”
In spite of his regional focus,
White’s sculptures have attracted
national recognition. They have been
featured in a variety of magazines,
including House and Garden and the
September 2006 issue of Coastal
Living.
JOHN GEOGHEGAN ’60
J
ohn Geoghegan is one of those
anonymous artists with a body
of work that has been seen by
millions, fully appreciated by few and
taken for granted by most. He is also
an artist with anoth-
er body of work that
has been seen by
many fewer, is
greatly appreciated
by those who know
good art, and cer-
tainly is not taken
for granted by those
who exhibit or buy
it.
Geoghegan graduated from the
University of Cincinnati with a degree
in graphic design. He has had a varied
career as package designer, as a cre-
ative director of a large New York ad
agency and heading brand develop-
ment for two packaged goods compa-
nies. His work has shown up on store
shelves, in TV commercials and in
corporate annual reports – unsigned,
and as noted, likely taken for granted
by most people. At the moment, he is
doing brand development work for
the cigar industry – and is as likely to
direct a conversation to the subject of
good cigars as he is to his own fine
art work. He currently resides in
Thousand Oaks, Calif.
For many artists, Geoghegan
included, talent seems to be an inher-
ited trait. Geoghegan’s mother was an
accomplished painter and ceramicist.
He recalls that his own compulsion to
draw began when he was about 5
years old with elaborate panoramic
war scenes. His wife, Lin, is also an
artist, hand-stitching quilts and craft-
John Geoghegan’s Malaga Cove Shower
is part of his collection of landscape
paintings.
ing jewelry. Now a third generation of
Geoghegans is involved with art, as
all three of their sons, as John
explains, “have some artistic talent,
and one is a digital effects editor in
Hollywood.”
Throughout, Geoghegan has been
and is a painter. Today, he works pri-
marily in acrylic, pastels and water
colors. He describes his work as
“impressionistic.”
“I paint light, landscapes and still
lifes,” he explains. “Some are actual
scenes, others are made up. Over
time, my work has become more
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abstract.” He has had one-man shows
in Connecticut, Ohio and Southern
California. When he lived in the Los
Angeles area, he was a member of the
Palos Verdes Art Center Co-op, and
now exhibits his work at a gallery in
Rolling Hills, Calif.
While some artists may consider
what they do to be work, Geoghegan
certainly does not. “You never retire
from painting
“You never retire and creating
from painting and art,” he says.
creating art. It is “You never
stop. It is not
not work.” work. I will
John be doing this
Geoghegan ’60 until I no
longer can.”
Geoghegan attended Reserve dur-
ing the Bill Moos and Paul Roundy
era, and he has come to appreciate
both of them more and more as the Phil Williams’ illustrations are “digitally hand-painted” with the help of two laptop
years have passed. He adds that computers. He comes from a family of artists whose work dates back to 1854.
another great thing about Reserve is
that the school offered a course in adding that they are descendants of the world, doing sound recording for
Philosophy and Religion, taught by the Irish patriot Robert Emmet. Their “all kinds of films,” ranging from
headmaster John Hallowell. work, primarily portraits and land- mainstream movies to theatrical per-
Speaking of his art education, scapes, dates back to 1854. formances to commercials for the
Geoghegan says, “Moos taught us to “Because of this background, I was U.S. Army. One project was a
see things not just visually, but to blend interested in art long before I came to Jimmy Carter presidential campaign
reality with what you wish something Reserve,” Williams says. “Then, Bill film.
to be. He stressed that first, you have to Moos was my Reserve inspiration. It Eventually, “Bill Moos was
understand what something is in reality, was under him that I began to grasp the he estab- my Reserve inspi-
and only then can you make it into fundamentals of art.” lished his
what you want it to be.” Williams’ intent upon enrolling own sound ration. It was
Those lessons, Geoghegan notes, as an undergraduate at the recording under him that I
are still with him, even though he University of Pennsylvania was to studio in began to grasp
graduated from Reserve 47 years ago. study architecture, but he discovered the fundamentals
upon arrival that the program had
PHIL WILLIAMS ’60 become available only to graduate of art.”

F
or illustrator Phil Williams,
art is just child’s play. Well,
not just child’s play, but for
the last two years, Williams has been
a frequent contributor to Highlights,
that fanciful and colorful monthly
publication that has delighted children
for 60 years. His specialty is the mag-
azine’s “Thinking Page.” He also cre-
ates illustrations for many other
diverse clients such as McGraw-Hill
(textbooks) and Outback Steakhouse
(product promotion posters).
That Williams is an artist is not a
surprise to anyone who knows him
and his maternal family history.
“There are many fine artists in my
family background,” he explains,
students. “I would have had to spend
four years in a liberal arts program
had I stayed there,” he adds. “So I
moved to the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts.”
With an education from that
venerable institution (Charles
Wilson Peale and William Rush
were the co-founders in 1805), can it
be assumed that Williams immedi-
ately launched a successful career as
an artist? Not exactly. In 1967, he
went to work for an experimental
school in Philadelphia, where he
handled its media requirements and
became interested in sound as an
artistic medium. Following that
experience, Williams began to travel
Phil Williams ’60
Philadelphia, building what he calls
“a huge sound effects library.”
As technology began to develop,
Williams became increasingly fasci-
nated with computers, leading to his
next career stop as a freelance com-
puter programmer for small business-
es. In this era, a failed attempt as an
inventor caused him to “lose every-
thing” financially, but not his fascina-
tion with computers.
“By the early ’90s, computers
started to show promise as a visual arts
medium, so I morphed into graphic
arts and website design,” he explains.
By the end of the decade, Williams’

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current career as an illustrator was
becoming well established, thanks in
part, he says, to a good agent.
Williams says that all of his illus-
trations are “digitally hand-painted.”
He works with two laptops out of his
home in the Philadelphia Main Line
suburb of Narberth, where he lives
with his wife, Margareta, and 14-
year-old daughter, Hanna. His older
daughter, Sarah Bay Williams, works
for the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles and
also has recently developed an inter-
est in painting, he reports.
Williams’ work can be seen at
www.eyewoo.com. In addition to his
illustrations for Highlights magazine,
the site also features general illustra-
tions, portraits, photography and links
to other related websites.
MARIO TRIPP ’80
C
entral to Mario Tripp’s art is
the theme that all living
things are connected. The
majority of his work focuses on
human subjects, with an emphasis
on indigenous peo-
ple. His goal is to
illustrate common
bonds among such
people. He
describes his style
as a spiritual mix of
realism and impres-
sionism. “Anyone
who looks at my art
can connect to it,”
Tripp believes.
Tripp came to Reserve in his
sophomore year from Cleveland, and
plans to return to Cleveland from
California, where he currently lives
and works, in the near future. But his
interest in art developed long before
he was of high school age. “Art came
naturally to me,” he says. “Even when
I was 4 years old, I had exceptional
skills in illustration. Then I was ‘dis-
covered’ by my sixth grade teacher.”
His talent began to blossom at
Reserve. In particular, he credits
Peggy Kwong Gordon, who taught
at Reserve from 1973 to 1985, with
helping him to mature as an artist.
His work earned him a one-man
show on campus, and Tripp believes
he is the first student ever accorded
Mario Tripp’s Native Elder emphasizes
indigenous people and the common
bonds among people.
such an honor.
While art may have come easily
to Tripp, life itself was a bit tougher
to manage in those younger years. His
father died when he was 17, he mar-
ried young, and for family reasons, he
left college after one semester. He
tried various
careers, but “In keeping with
by 1988, the concept of
Tripp says, Sankofa, artists
he made the
decision to
have a responsi-
be an artist. bility to create
By 1991, he historical records,
was becom- just as primitive
ing commer-
cially suc- people did in
cessful. “At their cave draw-
that time, I ings.”
got into
some com- Mario Tripp ’80
mercial
work,” he says. “I did whatever I
could do. I had the ability to work in
almost any medium – acrylics, pas-
tels, illustration and others. In 2001, I
was invited to exhibit at the Sankofa-
sponsored Cleveland Fine Arts Expo,
where emerging artists are featured.
The Expo helped me quite a bit.”
The name Sankofa, Tripp
explains, refers to an African bird of
myththat is depicted in stories to
teach the importance of retrospect.
Tripp has since returned to the
Expo, and during the 2005 event, he
was the featured artist on Cleveland’s
Fox 8 morning news. He also has
exhibited at the Art Walk Cleveland
and with Artrain USA, an art museum
housed in vintage rail cars that brings
world class exhibitions and art educa-
tion programs to communities across
the country.
In spite of his talent as a multi-
media artist, Tripp admits that for a
long time, he had “a fear of paint.”
“I stuck to illustration until 1993
when I did my first painting. That is
when I began to understand the con-
cept,” he says. “Now, I paint in my
head all the time. When I work, I am
influenced by Monet, whose impres-
sionistic style I love. I have devel-
oped my own impressionistic style,
using only a palette knife to paint.”
Tripp is careful to delineate the
difference between an artist and a
painter. “As an artist, I am very
meticulous about detail,” he stresses.
“I consider the painting as a whole,
including the negative space around
my primary subject.”
He credits Reserve’s Gordon with
helping him to understand the concept
of dealing with “negative space,”
which he describes as having been a
real revelation.
“Also, I do not get caught up in
painting just what I think will sell. In
keeping with the concept of Sankofa,
artists have a responsibility to create
historical records, just as primitive
people did in their cave drawings.”
While Tripp is trying to move away
from exhibiting his work on the Internet,
some is featured at absolutearts.com and
at myspace.com/mariotripp. He is cur-
rently working on a series of paintings
of eagles he hopes to display in the
Moos Gallery.
KINGSLEY ANDERSON ’89
L
ike so many artists, Kingsley
Anderson has followed a
long and winding road to his
current primary profession as a web
designer. That road began in his
hometown, the Cleveland suburb of
Shaker Heights, headed southwest
through Hudson (WRA) and
Delaware, Ohio (Ohio Wesleyan),
then turned back southeast to western
Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006 23
Africa (Peace Corps), next to New
Orleans (Tulane University) and
eventually, to Albuquerque, N.M.,
where he currently lives and works.
Anderson’s artistic claim to fame
is as a sculptor, and it is clear that his
education, other professional interests
and travels have influenced his work.
But to better understand how that all
fits together, one must rewind the tape
to the fall of 1986, when he started at
Reserve as a sophomore.
“I come from an artistic family,”
Anderson says, “but my art was great-
ly influenced by (Reserve fine arts
master) Tom Armbruster. I took both
two-dimen-
“I cannot get into sional and 3-
a daily or weekly D art, and
routine. I get Tom showed
bursts of energy me how to
work, but did
and creativity. not direct my
Sculpture is style. I dis-
intense. To do it, I covered that
2-D art did
have to isolate not interest
myself and turn me. I got
inward for inspi- into stone
ration.” carving and
kinetic art.
Kingsley Having the
Anderson ’89 Moos
Gallery at
the Knight Fine Arts Center gave me
a chance to set up shows.”
Anderson also credits his Reserve
advisor, math teacher Howard
Kaplan, with helping him to marry art
and math.
At Ohio Wesleyan, Anderson
majored in anthropology and sociolo-
gy and minored in philosophy. But he
also spent a lot of time in the school’s
sculpture studio, where his art profes-
sor gave him the same creative
license that Reserve’s Armbruster did.
“In spite of my sculpture,”
Anderson recalls, “cultural anthropol-
ogy was my calling. That led me to
the Peace Corps and Western Africa
in the 1994-96 timeframe, and there
my interest in public health began to
evolve. When I returned home, I went
to Tulane to get my master’s degree
in health administration. From there, I
used my math skills to begin analyz-
ing health databases, and that led to
my interest in website development.”
24 Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006
Kingsley Anderson and his wife, Shana Lane-Anderson, display some of the masks he
creates and the jewelry she designs in their studio. The mask to his left, Tlingit Vision,
is also on Page 20.
So, what happened to sculpture in
the meantime? “I still do it,”
Anderson says, “but I have slowed
down a bit. I have set up studio space
at home. My work reflects my interest
in anthropology.”
Of course, having lived in
Albuquerque since 1999, Anderson
says his work is also influenced by
New Mexico culture and by Santa
Fe’s vibrant and renowned art com-
munity.
As you might have gathered by
now, Anderson is never happy unless
he is also evolving and reinventing
himself. At the moment, he is trans-
forming his Anderson Studio and
Gallery into a new business model.
What was an actual physical gallery
in Albuquerque, which opened in
March 2005, is now an e-gallery
only. It features his sculpture, to be
sure. But it also showcases the jew-
elry made by his wife, Shana Lane-
Anderson, and the fiber art of her
mother, Gretchen Lane.
In the meantime, Kingsley
Anderson devotes the bulk of his
time to web design and supports the
websites of other galleries. He also
designed an art events calendar for
The Collector’s Guide, a New
Mexico arts guidebook and resource
for art collectors.
Clearly, Anderson is not the kind
of person born to be a slave to rou-
tine. “I cannot get into a daily or
weekly routine,” he says flatly. “I get
bursts of energy and creativity.
Sculpture is intense. To do it, I have
to isolate myself and turn inward for
inspiration.”
To see the products of that inspira-
tion, visit andersonstudiogallery.com.
ELIZABETH FRASER ’89
A
n apple a day may keep the
doctor away, but a painting
a day keeps Elizabeth
Fraser ’89 busy. Fraser is, by her own
description, “an expressive landscape
painter, using bright colors and bold
brushstrokes.” She also has estab-
lished some bold goals for herself.
One of them was to complete a paint-
ing every day, “8 Days a Week,”
throughout 2006.
When Fraser left Reserve for Mt.
Holyoke to major in French and
Spanish, her intent was to become a
language teacher. She in fact did spend
four years teaching in Virginia and
New Jersey. It was during her New
Jersey years that her brother, Michael
’93, inspired her to change direction.
“Michael had spent a year at the
Elizabeth, left, and Michael Fraser work on landscape paintings at the Country Club of Hudson. The siblings sometimes work at
fresh paint auctions, where they paint on site and auction off their work immediately. Below, Elizabeth works in her studio.
Cleveland Institute of Art, and his
experience inspired me to paint,”
Fraser explains. “It was truly life-
changing. It has been great to follow
my heart and do what I love. Painting
has become my life.”
Living on the Maine coast in
Portland for the last seven years has
also provided Fraser with inspiration.
“I live two blocks from an ocean hill-
side, so every day I see sunrises,
boats and lighthouses,” she says. “I
am also inspired by Maine’s rich art
history – Rockwell Kent, Marsden
Hartley and other impressionists.
People have told me that some of my
earlier works look like Van Gogh.”
Fraser is a self-taught painter.
When her interest developed, brother
Michael and her dad, Reserve lan-
guage master Jim Fraser, teamed up
in 1995 to get her what she needed to
get started. Like many evolving
artists, her style has changed over
time, she notes, and her paintings
often reflect her moods.
But what about this “8 Days a
Week” goal she set for herself?
“It has been great to follow
my heart and do what I love.
Painting has become my
life.”
Elizabeth Fraser ’89
“Eight days a week I complete a
small square oil painting on paper and
post it on my website, www.cham-
part.com and on an artists’ blog,
www.paintsquared.com,” she explains.
“My paintings are 5 by 5 inches and
are for sale on e-bay in five-day auc-
tions, with bids starting at $60.”
Of course when pressed on the
subject, Fraser admits that her weeks
– like everyone else’s – have seven
days, and that one day each week, she
posts two paintings on the blog. She Scenes, Painted Every Day.
adds that meeting this goal has been a Fraser does not rely only on e-bay
challenge, but that she relies on the to sell her works. She also sells at her
many photographs she takes to keep in-home studio, at a frame shop
her work fresh and inspiring. Her “8 where she works, at a nearby jewelry
Days a Week” project also earned her store and at fresh paint auctions. “A
a mention in an Aug. 31 New York fresh paint auction,” she explains, “is
Times article entitled Everyday literally that. You paint on location,
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and your work is then immediately “I knew relatively CIA painting to another aspect of Michael’s
auctioned off.” While she is primari- early in life that I style as career. “When Elizabeth was teach-
ly an oil painter, Fraser also does “impression- ing there, I lived with her for a
some woodblock prints and pastels was drawn to art, istic,” featur- while,” he explains. “I got a job in
and expresses a desire to try etching. but I had no ing heavy an art gallery, and the owner was
Even while living some distance inkling that I paint and also an expert at art restoration. He
from Hudson, Fraser is no stranger to exaggerated taught me the tricks of the trade, and
Reserve. She and Michael both exhib-
would become a colors. having learned those, I am now
ited their work in the Moos Gallery professional “Now,” he doing some art restoration.”
during Reunion 2006, and her paint- artist. I started says, “I am Fraser explains that art restora-
ing of the Chapel and North Hall painting seriously much more tion includes both cleaning and
graces the cover of Without Reserve, refined. My repair of paintings, and that it is not
the book of alumni essays published while I was at style is more something that should be undertaken
last year. Reserve, where disciplined by amateurs. “There are a lot of dif-
With her “8 Days a Week” goal Mr. (Alan) Doe with more ferent chemicals that can be used to
on its way to being met, what is was a big influ- attention to clean a painting,” he says, “and
Fraser aiming to achieve next? “My detail. I did before you start to work, you have
real goal right now is to make a solid ence on me.” not really to do some tests to determine which
living,” she says candidly. “I am Michael have control ones will clean the painting without
working in the frame shop for the Fraser ’93 over this damaging it.”
health insurance and to make ends change in Like Elizabeth, Fraser also works
meet. But I want to become self-suffi- style. It was in a frame shop to supplement his
cient so I can spend all of my time more of a natural evolution.” other earnings. He also is devoting
painting.” Today, Fraser lives in South considerable time to his July 2006
MICHAEL FRASER ’93 Portland, Maine, just a short distance bride Kimberly and to their “fixer-

M
ichael Fraser, the first of
the two Fraser offspring
to become an artist,
from his artist sister Elizabeth. upper” home in South Portland. “It is
“About 75 percent of my subjects are a beautiful house,” he says, “and I
New England landscapes and I do a love woodworking and carpentry.”
few still-lifes,” he explains. Much of CARL ORTMAN ’93

describes his style as a cross between
impressionism and realism. His media
are oils and watercolors. His subjects
primarily are landscapes.
“I knew relatively early in life
that I was drawn to art,” Fraser says,
“but I had no inkling that I would
become a profes-
sional artist. When
we were growing
up, we did not have
a television set, so I
would amuse
myself by painting.
But my career inter-
est was more in the
field of architec-
ture. I started paint-
ing seriously while I was at Reserve,
where Mr. (Alan) Doe was a big
influence on me.”
Following his graduation from
Reserve, Fraser enrolled for one year
at the Cleveland Institute of Art, but
left because, he says, “I did not see
where it would get me anywhere, and
because I did not want the debt I
would have after completing a five-
year program there.”
Fraser describes his early, post-
the time he works from photos, but
occasionally joins Elizabeth at fresh
paint auctions, where their works are
created and sold the same day. He
sells the bulk of his paintings at gal-
leries in the Portland area, and a few
at champart.com, the website gallery
that the Fraser siblings share.
“Portland is a great arts commu-
nity,” Michael notes. “There are a lot
of good little galleries that are looking
for artists such as myself. There are
also festivals and shows in the area
where I can exhibit and sell my paint-
ings. Although I prefer to work in
oils, I actually sell more watercolors.”
Aside from sharing a city, a
website and love of painting, the
Frasers also credit each other with
inspiration. “Our styles are differ-
ent,” Michael notes. “Elizabeth is
more loose and impressionistic in
her style than I am. But we do
inspire each other.” And as noted in
her story, Elizabeth credits Michael
with her initial inspiration to be a
professional artist while she was
teaching in New Jersey.
Actually, time spent in New
Jersey also contributed fortuitously
S
omething was missing in Carl
Ortman’s life following gradu-
ation from Reserve.
“Business education was a strug-
gle; college was a joke after
Reserve,” he explains. “The teachers
were not as passionate and I was not
motivated.” So at
that point, Ortman
left his chosen insti-
tution of higher
learning and
returned to
Cleveland where he
lived with Peter Lin,
Jamie Breuker and
Ben Jones, Reserve
classmates all. He
went to work as a bartender in local
nightclubs, but also became interested
in nightclub and restaurant interior
design. He also resumed his education
at both the Cleveland Institute of Art
and Cleveland State University.
But he still craved change,
Ortman recalls. “I decided I did not
want to live in Cleveland. I needed
mountains. I needed quality of life, so
I moved to Phoenix, where I lived for

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a year. To buy time, I started working
in real estate and mortgages.” Still
restless, he moved to Colorado
Springs, Colo., three years ago and
started a mortgage company there. He
also found a mentor to help him
develop as a professional artist.
Today, painting is Ortman’s life.
His medium is oils. His art career, he
says, is in its infancy. “It takes five to
15 years for
“You just never most people
know when the to become
perfect scene will accom-
lay itself in front plished artists,” he
of you for creative explains. “I
exploitation.” have been at
Carl Ortman ’93 ityear. for one
I need
to build a
body of work.”
His subjects are primarily people,
whom he paints with “big, bold brush
strokes and splashes of color.” He adds
that when you paint, “you need to get
out of the way of the art and paint
what you feel.” Reserve art teacher
Alan Doe encouraged Ortman to do
just that, he says. “Alan said to me,
‘Carl, it is not a matter of whether you
can paint, it is a matter of whether you
will. If you are going to paint, paint Carl Ortman’s Midday Cowboy shows his style of “big, bold brush strokes.” For
big.’” Ortman, painting means “getting out of the way of the art and painting what you feel.”
Ortman adds that Doe’s advice
was a new concept for him. “I always Argentina, where artists there also will have 25 more for a one-man
painted detail,” he says. “I did not influenced his style. To further his show there in January.”
know about splashy style, but I start- exposure, he approached Rich Some of Ortman’s work can be
ed taking classes and it was a process Designs Gallery in Colorado seen at richdesignsgallery.com, and at
of letting go. The more I did it, the Springs, where his work is now carlortman.com. In keeping with
more that came through. I saw that I exhibited and sold. Doe’s advice, many of his paintings
could enjoy a certain style. Through “You need to be in a hometown are big – as big as 36 inches by 48
workshops and mentoring, who I am gallery before you can be accepted in inches. His creative energy also
came out.” bigger cities,” he explains. “I did a drives him to paint quickly.
In a different way, Ortman also show in Denver and sold out, and “Most of my paintings are done in
credits Reserve headmaster Henry painted six pieces for an elite builder three days. You just never know when
Flanagan Jr. for his focus and success to display in a home show. I sold all the perfect scene will lay itself in front
today. He says he was living in six pieces. I also did 12 pieces for a of you for creative exploitation.”
Florida when he was “discovered” by show in Scottsdale in September, and
Skip and encouraged to come to
Reserve, where, as noted, he fell
under the influence of Doe. “Skip
took me under his wing and intro- On The Web
duced me to a whole different world.
The impact I have had on other peo- To stay up-to-date on the latest
ple because of Skip is astronomical.”
In addition to the mentoring campus news, sports scores and
Ortman is receiving in Colorado more, be sure to visit www.wra.net.
Springs, he also has traveled to

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 HOMECOMING 2006
erfect fall weather prevailed and

P the Reserve community took

full advantage, celebrating both
Homecoming and Parents’ Day on
Oct. 7. The night before, under a
beautiful harvest moon, alumni, par-
ents and students flocked to the
Murdough Athletic Center for the
annual Dads Club Giant Family Party
and Auction, which had its largest
attendance ever, raising more than
$100,000 for Reserve student activi-
ties and programs.
The following morning, a cloud-
less blue sky, mild temperatures and
an early display of fall color greeted
both alumni and parents. Actually,
several campus visitors earned both
labels: more than a handful of alums
returning for Homecoming 2006 are
also current WRA parents, who spent
the morning following their children’s
academic schedules and meeting A Homecoming crowd cheers on the Pioneer football team during its 17-6 victory over
teachers in what must have been a Lake Forest Academy. Below, senior tailback Cart Hall carries the ball.
moment of déjà vu. It was also déjà
vu for veteran faculty masters Tom sponsored by the Alumni Association,
Davis, Chris Breuker and Lee drew those wishing to prolong a most
Blankenship. Davis welcomed former memorable day.
student Tracy Hamlin Nolan ’81 back “There was never a dull
to his English classroom; this year, moment,” commented Director of
Davis teaches two of her children, Alumni Relations Ray Murphy ’81.
Suzanne ’07 and Tim ’09. Breuker’s “It seemed to go pretty smoothly,
“baby bio” presentation was attended having both events on the same
by Wellington “Duke” Reiter ’75, weekend.”
father of Adrian ’10, and Blankenship
welcomed former students Reiter and According to Director of Special
Robert Williams ’75, father of and Phil Hogarth. The soccer mini- Events Greta Rothman, the day was
Tommy ’07. reunion also celebrated 80 years of a tremendous success from every
All told, 136 alumni registered to Reserve soccer and the 1,000th soccer point of view. “This was a complete
attend the weekend’s festivities, game in school history (See article, team effort on the part of the Alumni
which included a Saturday luncheon Page 30). In all, 12 contests were Association, the Dads Club, the
in the Murdough Athletic Center fol- being held at venues across the cam- Alumni & Development Office, the
lowed by a full slate of athletic con- pus: tennis, soccer, volleyball and Pioneer Women, Reserve’s
tests. The beautiful weather encour- field hockey for girls, and football Executive Committee and the Green
aged many to stroll from game to and soccer for boys. Key Society,” she commented.
game, including a 2-0 victory over Refreshments were served, com- “And this type of event could
archrival University School, which pliments of the Pioneer Women, on not be successful without Val
drew a large crowd of fans and for- the patio of Morgan Hall throughout Ritzert, Scott Sondles, and their
mer players, as well as former coach- the afternoon, and a post-game recep- entire kitchen and maintenance
es and faculty members Dale Conly tion in the Murdough Athletic Center, staffs. They did an outstanding job.”

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 HOMECOMING 2006

Showing their spirit at the football game are, kneeling from left,
Brittany Droogh ’08 and Ali Purves ’10, and standing, from left,
Kelsey Greissing ’10, Lauren Wyman ’10, Sloane Victor ’10,
Persy Sample ’10, Allison Hylant ’08, Natalie DiNunzio ’08,
Charlee Warford ’07 and Clare Manoli ’09.
The Rogers family had a mini-reunion at Homecoming.
Standing, from left, are Rick Rogers ’72 and his daughter,
Maddy ’07, Bud Rogers ’47 and Bruce Rogers ’75. Middle, from
left, are Sarah Rogers (Maddy’s sister), Steve Rogers ’81 and his
wife, Heidi Henderson. In the front are, from left, Altie and
Kezia, Steve and Heidi’s daughters.

Seniors Katelyn Lazor

(No. 17) and captain
Kate Hollnagel (No. 13)
The Green Key Society helped fire up the students at a bonfire and the rest of the field
the night before Homecoming. From left are Chris Galgano ’07, hockey team delivered a
Saimah Haque ’07, John Dionne ’07, Kevin Rattigan ’07, 2-1 Homecoming win
Brittany Droogh ’08, Nick Sell ’07, Kathryn Murphy ’08, against Shady Side
Susannah Lu ’07 and Jessica Sindell ’07. Academy.

The Homecoming lunch drew a large crowd of parents, students and alumni to the Murdough Athletic Center.

Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006 29

Soccer team celebrates milestone
Boys team marks
80 years of play
at Homecoming
In the fall of 1926 the Reserve
Record ran the following story:

There’re No Quitters Says

Soccer Coach

“The thing that impresses me the

most is that there is not a quitter
among them,” Homer F. Barnes,
English instructor and soccer coach,
expressed his feelings thus in regard
to the soccer crowd.
Soccer football was started for
the fellows who were not proficient in
other sports.
At present Mr. Barnes has picked
no first team and no second team. He
says that he has not done this because
the fellows are all new to the game.
And the only way for them to learn to Homer Barnes, back row at center with the 1928 team, started the boys soccer pro-
pass skillfully is to let everyone play. gram at Reserve in 1926.
A soccer team is made up of and the teams battling to a 1-1 tie in Academy, ranked No. 3 in Division
eleven men. A goal guard, left, cen- the rematch. The Pioneers played a II. Reserve is in Division III.
ter and right fullbacks. These are the third game that year, against an alumni Reserve followed up its inaugural
defensive men. The offensive men team from Cleveland’s Audubon season by playing U.S. three times in
consist of the right outer, inner Junior High School, losing 4-0. 1927 and, in 1928, Nichols and Shady
right, center, inner left, and outer “To say we’ve come a long way Side were added to the schedule. By
left forwards. since then is putting it mildly,” said 1931 the schedule included freshman
current coach Herb Haller ’85, a top teams from Oberlin, the University of
ighty years and 1,000 varsity

E games after Homer Barnes first

began teaching the finer points
of what the world knows as “the
beautiful game,” the Reserve boys
soccer team celebrated during
Homecoming Weekend with a 2-0
win over University School.
It was appropriate that the
Pioneers marked the anniversary
against U.S., as the Preppers were the
only other high school in the area to
field a team in 1926. That first year the
two teams played each other twice,
with U.S. winning the first game 2-1
player under longtime WRA coach
Dale Conly. “In Ohio, teams are
ranked by student population into
three divisions, with the one we’re in
being the smallest.
“And though we cull our teams
from only about 240 boys, our sched-
ule is mostly with teams in the top
two divisions, some with several
thousand students.”
The Pioneers finished 19-1-1 on
the season, with wins over Walsh
Jesuit – ranked No. 1 in the state in
Division II at the time – and a 2-2 tie
with Cuyahoga Valley Christian
Akron and Western Reserve
University, along with teams from the
newly created Interstate League.
From the early 1930s to the late
1950s, Reserve played six to 10
games a season against such oppo-
nents as Cranbrook, Kiski, Fenn
College (now Cleveland State
University) and a team called the
Akron Indians. Hawken School and
Gilmour Academy were added to the
schedule in the mid-1960s.
The program continued to grow
under athletic director George Helwig
in the 1960s. When Helwig arrived on

30 Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006

Andrew Shorten ’07 and the boys soccer team celebrat-
ed the school’s 1,000th game with a win over University
School during Homecoming.

Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006 31

HOMECOMING 2006
Current coach Herb Haller ’85 has continued the tradition of
winning soccer at Reserve. Haller has won more than 100
games at Reserve.
campus in 1960, no other public Ohio high schools had
varsity soccer teams, and Reserve had to fill out its sched-
ule with college freshman and junior varsity teams. With
Helwig leading the effort, the Reserve campus hosted
annual soccer clinics for high schools interested in learn-
ing the game. As a result, there were 58 public high
schools playing at the varsity level when Helwig left
Reserve in 1974.
Helwig’s contributions were recognized by the Ohio
College Soccer Coaches Association, who awarded him a
plaque with the inscription “To the founding father of
Ohio Scholastic Soccer.”
Today, the school typically plays 18 to 20 games a
season, with games starting in late August – before school
officially opens – including a now annual trip to the
University of Indiana, Haller’s alma mater, to compete in
the Hoosier Cup.
“The Hoosier Cup attracts top high school teams from
far and wide, and this year we came in second, losing 2-1 in
overtime,” Haller said. “The tournament is really great for
the players, who eat, drink and sleep soccer for two weeks.
“They also get to see the Indiana University players
up close – that gives them a nice idea of the kind of com-
petition they look forward to at the college level.”
32 Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006
Dale Conly coached the Pioneers for 25 years, the longest
tenure for a soccer coach in school history. His best team may
have been the 1995 squad that finished 14-0-4.
Just how good are the Reserve soccer teams?
The Pioneers have posted a winning record in 56 of
their 80 seasons, and have suffered only four losing sea-
sons in the past 40 years. The school’s two best seasons
were in 1995-96 (14-0-4) and in 1984-85, Haller’s senior
year (18-0-2).
“Some schools got tired of losing to us regularly and
dropped us from their schedules,” says Haller. “In addition
to our Interstate rivals, we regularly play the best teams in
Northeast Ohio, including Walsh Jesuit, Cuyahoga Valley
Christian Academy, Copley, Firestone, St. Vincent/St.
Mary, Akron Hoban, St. Thomas Aquinas and Berlin
Highland.
Haller works hard to keep the current team connected
to its past.
“Another big event for us is Reunion Weekend, when
our varsity plays a 30-minute game with a team made up
of alumni,” he said. “Almost every year the alumni more
than hold their own.”
Continuity and consistency at the coaching level have
had much to do with the teams’ success over the years,
Haller says.
“It’s really unusual for a high school to have had only
eight head coaches over such a long stretch,” he said.
 HOMECOMING 2006

Dr. Tien Wei Yang ’41 looks over the boys team in the fall of 1958.

“Homer Barnes was coach from

1926-31, when Ray Mickel and Paul
Roundy took over. Roundy was head
coach starting in 1934, and he was
joined by Max LaBorde in 1947. Tien
Wei Yang ’41 coached from 1956-66,
and then Rollie Waite came in. Five
years later, Dale Conly began the first
of his 25 years as coach. In 1997 Jeff
Good ’83 took over, and I became
head coach in 2000.
“The longevity, quality and loyal-
ty to the program of the freshman,
junior varsity and varsity assistant
coaches have also made a huge con-
tribution. Phil Hogarth, Jim
McClelland, Dick Jones, Rollie Waite,
John Breuker and Diccon Ong,
among others, have spent many years
on the sidelines and offering instruc-
tion, advice and encouragement.”
Another sign of the program’s
strength is that there are currently five
Reserve graduates – Greg Gasbarro Several former players returned for Homecoming to help the boys soccer team cele-
’03, Atilla Schmidt ’04, Peter Shorten brate the 80th anniversary of the team’s founding.
’04, Yujin Murata ’06 and Bidemi
Busari ’06 – on college varsity teams “No one knows for sure how who were not proficient in other
around the country. Haller predicts many have ended up on college teams sports.” Now, more than 1,000 games
that several from this year’s team will over the 80 years, but we know it’s a later, Western Reserve Academy’s
go on to college varsities, and as lot,” Haller asserts. “soccer football” program is among
many as seven or eight of the current There you have it. In 1926 a team the best in the region.
junior class may well make it. was patched together from “fellows

Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006 33

Campaign nears finish line
Ambitious goal of
raising $40 million
in school’s sights
he end is in sight. With $38
T million in pledges and gifts –
95 percent of its target –
already in hand, The Campaign for
Reserve is entering its final weeks.
“In this last phase,” noted
Director of Academy Advancement
Helen Gregory, “we’re trying to raise
that last $2
“Like many other million by
alums, I’ve appealing to
received two ben- everyonethe Reserve
in
efits from
family, giv-
Reserve: an ing them one
incredible educa- last opportu-
nity to be
tional and life- part of this
changing experi- effort.”
ence for me and Campaign
the joy of watch- gifts and
ing my son get the pledges, she
added, will
very same thing. be accepted
It was easy for me throughout
to agree to help the fall, with
a celebration
the school with scheduled in
the campaign.” 2007 to mark
Ed Emma ’73 the cam-
paign’s suc-
cessful completion.
The $40 million campaign, which
began with a “quiet” fundraising
phase in 2001, has focused on five
key areas of need: augmenting faculty
support, enhancing residential life,
creating a new athletic center, increas-
ing student scholarships and support-
ing growth and integration of technol-
ogy. The largest fundraising effort –
by a factor of five – in Reserve’s 180-
year history, the campaign has already
provided funds to meet several of its
34 Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006
goals, including the construction of
the Murdough Athletic Center, which
opened in 2004, and additions and
renovations to dormitories such as
Garden House and Bicknell House.
One thrust of the campaign’s final
months has been what Gregory
describes as “a massive mailing and
phoning effort,” in an attempt to
remind people of the reasons for the
campaign and to encourage participa-
tion. Alumni Dan Christman ’61, Ed
Emma ’73 and Chris Loughridge ’82,
along with parents Hewitt and Paula
Shaw (Andrew ’03, Rebecca ’05 and
Amanda ’09), have authored letters to
fellow alumni and parents, followed
up by phone calls, hoping to enlist
their support.
“Through The Campaign for
Reserve – Share the Vision, we have
the ability to showcase our WRA
pride and enrich the Academy’s repu-
tation for excellence, making Reserve
‘best in class,’” said Christman, who
is senior vice president for interna-
tional affairs at the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce. “Our leadership and sup-
port will continue to uphold the mis-
sion of the academy and encourage
students to follow our example, and
to lead appropriately when it’s their
turn to provide future students with
the same opportunities.”
Emma, who is president of
Jockey International, is also a WRA
parent; his son Arthur is a member of
the Class of 2007. “Like many other
alums,” he reflected, “I’ve received
two benefits from Reserve: an incred-
ible educational and life-changing
experience for me and the joy of
watching my son get the very same
thing. It was easy for me to agree to
help the school with the campaign.”
Loughridge says he has always
supported Reserve because he “want-
ed to give something back” to the
school that had provided him with
direction, support and opportunity.
“However, I felt even more compelled
to contribute when someone pointed
out to me how small the alumni base
of WRA truly is,” he said. His own
class, he noted, numbers only 73; cur-
rently, Reserve graduates just over 100
students each year. “There are simply
not that many people from whom the
school can draw financial support,” he
added. “Thus, every dollar contributed
by every person who contributes, real-
ly makes a difference.”
The campaign’s final months
have also highlighted five relatively
new endowed funds and special giv-
ing opportunities. Named for unfor-
gettable members of the school com-
munity, both faculty and alumni, these
funds represent a way to join the cam-
paign effort while at the same time
remembering and honoring the influ-
ence and impact these five had during
their time at WRA – and beyond:
The Todd C. Weaver ’89 Prefect
Prize recognizes two outstanding sen-
ior prefects each year in memory of a
former Ellsworth prefect, who was
killed when the World Trade Center
collapsed. “Todd exemplified the best
traits that Reserve attempts to foster –
intellectual curiosity, open-minded-
ness and respect for others,” reflected
classmate Jeff Johnston ’89.
The William H. Danforth ’34
Memorial Fund provides scholarship
support for a deserving day student.
Danforth, a legendary and much
beloved member of the Reserve fami-
ly, devoted 25 years (1951-1976) to
the school. “Bill shaped my path at
Reserve,” remembered Clark
McFadden ’64, “and through his
warmth, brightness and friendship
embodied the highest ideals of
Reserve.”
The Corinne Van Dame Davis
Fund remembers Reserve’s first lady
of theater, who staged more than 100
WRA productions. “One of my moth-
er’s greatest joys each year, even after
retirement, was seeing her former stu-
dents at Reunion Weekend,” said her
son, Randy Davis ’77. “She was
always so proud of ‘how her kids
turned out.’ Every one of them.” The
fund seeks to establish an annual
scholarship for a deserving student.
The Keir Vivienne Marticke ’02
Memorial Fund supports the Keir
Marticke Speaker Series, which in
2006 brought well-known poet
Sharon Olds to campus. The fund
also supports a student prize, given in
memory of a young woman who was
a talented poet, artist, athlete and
scholar. “Keir accomplished in her
four years at Reserve what takes
many a lifetime – she showed com-
passion and commitment, intensity
and dedication to her studies, her
causes, athletics and in support of
others,” said her brother, Drew ’97.
“We miss her.”
The William Moos Faculty
Sabbatical Travel Fund, which hon-
ors the memory of Reserve’s preemi-
nent art teacher, will afford faculty
masters and their families an opportu-
nity to enrich their life experience
through travel. “Moos believed that
travel allows faculty to sharpen their
skills and to become better instruc-
tors,” noted John Nicolls ’68, “by
deepening their knowledge of their
field in the context of different envi-
ronments, cultures and perspectives.”
All of these funds, according to
Gregory, have been established in the
past five years. “As the campaign
nears the finish line, we’ve been
highlighting them because so many
people’s lives were touched, often in
profound ways, by these five individ-
uals,” she added. “They made such a
The Campaign for Reserve, which is
difference, and it’s our hope that nearing its end, has raised significant
alumni and friends of the school will funds to help, clockwise from top,
find this a meaningful way to remem- improve residential life, attract and
ber them, and support Reserve at the retain top faculty, increase the number of
same time.” student scholarships and build the
Murdough Athletic Center.


For more information on The

Campaign for Reserve, please contact
Director of Academy Advancement
Helen Gregory at gregoryh@wra.net
or 330.650.9704.

Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006 35

 Reunion
2006
s Reunion 2006 kicked off on Friday, June 9,

A weather watchers breathed a sigh of relief as the

rain and clouds gave way to sunshine. More than
300 alumni, spouses, family members and significant oth-
ers enjoyed some or all of the weekend activities, includ-
ing an alumni art exhibit, special lectures and presenta- Bill Milhoan ’56, left, and Tom Glick ’56 catch up on old times
tions, memorial services, golf and soccer, spectacular fire- during their 50th reunion at the All-Classes Dinner in Ellsworth
works, campus tours and, of course, plenty of eating. Hall.
For the record, the eldest alumnus in attendance was
Ed Levy ’31 of Tucson, 92 years young, according to
Director of Special Events Greta Rothman.
Geographically, alums came from far and wide: Marc
Taliaferro ’66 from Sweden, Jessica Pryce Burns ’81 and
Phil Ginsberg ’01 from the U.K., Philip Norris ’46 from
Honolulu, and Dan Kaute ’81 and Fred Neal ’46 from
Ontario, Canada. In addition, three alumni were singled
out for special recognition during Saturday’s traditional
Chapel Program: Anne Campbell Goodman ’84 received
the Waring Prize (see Page 39), Robert McCuskey ’56 was
awarded the Morley Science Medal (see Page 40) and
David Hunter ’68 was honored with the Alumni
Association Award (see Page 49).
“We were very pleased with the turnout this year,
and with how much fun people seemed to be having,”
said Ray Murphy ’81, director of alumni relations, who
with his classmates was celebrating his 25th reunion. Fred Cummings ’85, Charles Sims ’71 and Bill Roemer ’51, left
to right, at the All-Classes Dinner.
Fittingly, he noted, the Class of 1981’s home for the
weekend was Seymour Alumni House on Prospect
Street, former home of the Burnham family and a fre-
quent hangout for Reserve students in the ’70s and early
’80s. For the first time, Murphy added, alumni could
register online for Reunion Weekend, and roughly half
of those who attended took advantage of this option.
Friday’s events began at the Country Club of Hudson,
where 81 golfers turned out for the fourth annual Alumni
Association Golf Outing. Enthusiasm was strong, noted
Murphy. “The golf outing continues to grow, and we hope
next year even more alumni from reunion classes will join
us,” he added. Murphy cited the leadership of the Alumni
Association’s Golf Committee as key to the event’s suc-
cess. And for the record, bragging rights for this year go to
the winning quintet of Scott Brubaker ’87, Phil Kuri ’86,
Steve Kuri ’86, Rob Murray ’84 and longtime faculty
master Jim Fraser. Revenue from the golf outing now Karen Burroughs and Paul Weller ’32, along with Ed ’31 and
funds an annual student award (see Page 48). Lila Levy. Ed Levy was the eldest alumnus in attendance.

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 REUNION 2006

That afternoon, on the Morgan Hall ter-

race, friends and supporters gathered at a
luncheon to celebrate H. Arthur Bellows Jr.
’56 and his years of service as president of the
Board of Trustees (see Page 14). Mark Tercek
’79, the board’s new president, was intro-
duced and welcomed (see Page 18). Later that
evening, the weekend’s traditional All-Classes
Dinner was held in Ellsworth Hall, followed
by a magnificent fireworks display over the
hockey pond, which each year is donated by
American Fireworks.
On Saturday morning, the Chapel Program
featured two alumni speakers: interviewer and
author Martin Perlich ’56 and Jennifer Hoelzer
’96, a producer for the McLaughlin Group and a
former White House intern and congressional
speech writer. The Alumni Chorus, directed by Johanna Wagner ’86, Stacey Conner Talley ’86 and Sharisse Kimbro Jones
Margaret Karam ’79, performed former WRA ’86 celebrate their 20th reunion with Tom Davis.
choral director Bill Appling’s arrangement of We
Shall Walk Through the Valley and led those
gathered in Reserve’s alma mater. Headmaster
Henry Flanagan Jr., who had just completed his
24th year at WRA, gave a brief “state of the
school” address, noting that he is the Academy’s
30th headmaster. “Reserve is always changing,
yet eternally the same,” he mused. “That is
magic – the combination of the two.”
Added to the program this year were the
reading of names and the tolling of the Chapel
bell in remembrance of classmates – 32 of them
–who had passed away since the previous
reunion. In addition, the classes of 1951 and
1956 held separate memorial services for
deceased classmates, and the Class of 1971
gathered to remember Michael “Chop” Allen. A
full slate of Saturday afternoon activities was
followed by 13 individual class dinners, held John Male ’01, Phil Ginsberg ’01, Brian Torski ’01, Adam Galea ’01, Matt
throughout the campus and in neighboring Wilson ’01 and John Sorgi ’01 celebrate their 5th reunion.
restaurants and alumni homes. Celebrating its
30th reunion, the Class of 1976 made a bit of
WRA history as the first reunion class to gather
at Kepner’s Tavern for its reunion dinner.
Reunion Weekend 2006 also included a
special Moos Gallery exhibit entitled
Expressive Landscapes by the Fraser Siblings,
featuring 50 works by alumni artists Elizabeth
Fraser ’89 and Michael Fraser ’93. The artists
are residents of Portland, Maine, and Maine
seascapes were a prominent feature of the Moos
Gallery show, which saw a steady stream of
visitors throughout the weekend. “The Frasers’
exhibit was outstanding, and we hope we can
continue to feature alumni exhibits at future
reunions,” said Murphy.
Director of the Annual Fund Lisa Sabol
noted that reunion giving for 2006 exceeded
$419,000, part of the overall 2005-06 Annual Bruce Williams ’46, Terry Garrigan ’46 and Dan Collister ’46 in Ellsworth
Fund total of $1,701,379. “We exceeded our Hall before Friday’s All-Classes Dinner.

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Author and interviewer Martin Perlich

’56 speaks at the Chapel Program. Earl Christy ’41, left, and Howie Wells ’41 greet each other at Saturday’s picnic.

Taeho Jinn ’86, left, Bob Perry ’86 and Bob’s daughter, Paige, Jennifer Hoelzer ’96, a producer for the McLaughlin Group, was
at Saturday’s picnic lunch. a featured speaker at the Chapel Program.

Annual Fund goal by over $100,000,”
she said, “and on the whole this
year’s efforts were very successful.”
According to Sabol, the Class of
1951, celebrating its 55th reunion,
raised the most money, at just more
than $125,000, a record for any 55th
reunion class. Among reunion classes,
the Class of 1946, celebrating its 60th,
had the highest participation at 84 per-
cent. Also noteworthy is the Class of
1935, which in a non-reunion year
achieved 100 percent participation in
the Annual Fund, with all 12 living
members of the class contributing.
For the second year in a row, the
Class of 1950 Annual Fund Award,
given annually to the graduating class
within the past 10 years with the high-
est participation rate, went to the Class
of 2004, with 51 percent participation.
“Participation in the Annual Fund
remains very strong,” noted Sabol,
adding that current parents contributed
a record total of more than $235,000,
with 56 percent participation – a 19
percent increase from last year. Next
year’s Annual Fund goal has been set
at $1.7 million. “Reserve is fortunate
to have a strong, loyal and generous
group of alumni, parents and friends,”
Sabol said. “We are confident that
with their continued support Reserve
can meet this challenge.”
Rothman summed up Reunion
2006 this way: “After speaking with
several of the alumni who had
returned, it seems that everyone had a
truly enjoyable and nostalgic experi-
ence, one that will stay in their hearts
and minds for a long time.”
For more reunion highlights and
photos, visit Reserve’s website
(www.wra.net), select Alumni, then
click on Reunion Weekend and look
for Reunion Highlights.

Planning is now underway for
Reunion 2007, scheduled for June 8-10.
If your class year ends in 2 or 7, mark
your calendar and plan to come home to
Reserve. For more information, contact
Greta Rothman at 330.650.5862 or
rothmang@wra.net, or log onto
www.wra.net, select Alumni and then
click on Reunion Weekend.

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Goodman ’84 honored with Waring Prize
nne Campbell Goodman ’84 is
A passionate about hunger. As
executive director of the
Cleveland Foodbank, she oversees the
distribution of more than 20 million
pounds of food each year.
“Simply stated, Anne has devoted
her professional career to helping oth-
ers,” said Director of Academy
Advancement Helen Gregory, as she
presented Goodman with the 2006
Waring Prize, WRA’s highest alumni
award, during Reunion Weekend in
June. “Anne is described by those
who know her as a strong leader,
compassionate, determined, graceful,
approachable and generous,” added
Gregory. “She has been recognized by
many Cleveland organizations for her
business savvy and financial acumen.
But above all she connects with peo-
ple and she makes things happen.”
“It was quite a surprise to find out
about this, because I’m sure you’ll all
agree that it is well known that this
prize goes to grown-ups,” Goodman
quipped upon receiving the award.
Turning serious, she told the many
alumni gathered for Reunion
Weekend’s Chapel Program that she
was “single-minded” about hunger.
“Our freshman year, Mr. Kibbe
asked us who we would vote for if we
could vote for president,” Goodman
reflected. “We told him, and he said,
‘OK, now write an essay on why the
other guy should win.’ I wrote a pret-
ty bad essay, and Mr. Kibbe told me it
was because I was narrow-minded.
Which I’m sure I was – and am.
“And so I decided to turn that
into something positive,” Goodman
continued, “by doing something and
working for something where it was
my job to be narrow-minded. And I
love being narrow-minded and
focused on feeding the hungry. There
are lots of wonderful things to do, but
being recognized for that is recogniz-
ing an incredibly generous communi-
ty – an incredibly generous country of
people that want to fight hunger and
make sure that the least among us are
taken care of.”
A graduate of the University of
New Hampshire with a master’s
Director of Academy Advancement Helen Gregory, left, presents Anne Campbell
Goodman ’84 with the Waring Prize.
degree in social service administra-
tion from the University of Chicago,
Goodman’s professional life began in
Chicago, where she worked for
Family Focus and was a founding
board member of Interfaith House, a
non-profit organization dedicated to
providing housing and urgent services
to the homeless. She then joined the
staff of the Greater Chicago Food
Depository, the largest foodbank in
the country, where she served as the
director of development.
In 1999, when she and her hus-
band moved to Cleveland, she was
appointed executive director of the
Cleveland Foodbank. The foodbank
serves as a clearinghouse for donated
food in the Cleveland area, soliciting
donations from local and national
food suppliers and manufacturers to
be distributed to area hunger pro-
grams. The foodbank regularly pro-
vides food to more than 450 member
charities, including soup kitchens,
food pantries, shelters and programs
for children and the elderly.
Under Goodman’s leadership the
foodbank has seen tremendous growth
in food distribution, merged with two
other hunger relief organizations and
has conducted a successful capital
campaign to construct a distribution
center. Currently, the foodbank serves
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more than 150,000 people each year,
distributing enough food for more
than 40,000 meals each day. Thirty-
one percent of those served are chil-
dren; 12 percent are senior citizens.
“Anne has made an important
contribution in addressing the needs
of the hungry,” commented Frank
Starn ’81, a member of the Waring
Prize Committee. “Her work with
other foodbanks around the United
States extends her positive influence
to other communities and agencies.
She is a well-respected voice in the
national debate on hunger. Her work
touches the lives of many.”
Established in 1972 in honor of
J. Frederick Waring, a 32-year mem-
ber of the Reserve faculty, the Waring
Prize recognizes an alumna or alum-
nus whose life and achievements rep-
resent the human and individual val-
ues WRA seeks to foster.
Goodman has also been an
involved and concerned member of
the Reserve community. She is cur-
rently co-chair of the Board of
Visitors and has served as president of
the Alumni Association Board, and
for the past 10 years she has been
class correspondent for the Class of
1984. She and her husband, Larry,
live in Shaker Heights with their two
children, Abby and Andrew.
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McCuskey ’56 receives Morley Medal

t Reunion Weekend’s Chapel Program in June, Dr.

A Robert McCuskey ’56 was honored as the 10th

recipient of the Morley Science Medal. Given
annually since it was established in 2003, the award is
named for the late Edward W. Morley, a former Western
Reserve College faculty member and Nobel Prize nomi-
nee. The medal is presented to alumni who have distin-
guished themselves in careers devoted to science. Among
those present for the awarding of the 2006 Morley Medal
were previous medalists Frank Austen ’46, Lee Morin ’70
and Kathryn Clark ’76.
According to Reserve biology teacher Christine
Breuker, who presented the award, McCuskey has done
“knock-your-socks-off science.” A faculty member at the
University of Arizona since his appointment in 1986,
McCuskey is a professor of cell biology and anatomy, pro-
fessor of physiology and professor of pediatrics. In 2004
he received the prestigious Eugene M. Landis Research
Award for his work in microcirculation, and is acknowl-
edged worldwide for his work in microcirculation,
microscopy and pathobiology. In 2005, McCuskey retired
as head of the department of cell biology and anatomy at
Biology teacher Christine Breuker presents Dr. Robert
the university’s College of Medicine, a position he had McCuskey ’56 with the Morley Science Medal.
held for 19 years.
“I am delighted and honored to have been selected to with the liver, as well as the spleen, lungs, bones, intes-
be the recipient of the 2006 Morley Science Medal, espe- tines and pancreas. McCuskey has developed and brought
cially since its award coincided with my 50th class sophisticated imaging techniques into the areas of neuro-
reunion,” said McCuskey. “I attribute much of my success science, molecular biology, cellular biology, pharmacolo-
in life to the education that I received at WRA, both inside gy, physiology and pathology.
and outside of the classroom. For this, I thank my parents “You can imagine how proud we are to claim Bob
(both alumni of WRA), the outstanding and dedicated fac- McCuskey as our very own,” added Breuker. “Though no
ulty at WRA and my fellow classmates.” In his remarks to one in the present WRA science department can take any
the Chapel Program audience, McCuskey paid tribute to credit for his success, we intend to brag about him all the
former WRA biology teacher Tien Wei Yang ’41, recalling same. I know I speak for the Class of 1956, as well.”
his days under Yang’s tutelage “chasing rattlesnakes, Gila McCuskey’s photograph and a profile of his career
monsters and scorpions around the lab.” will become part of Reserve’s permanent display of
“When our committee was considering candidates for Morley Medal recipients, located in the second-floor
this year’s award, we found, in the case of Professor gallery of the Wilson Hall Science Center.
McCuskey, a résumé so diverse and so extensive that, in
summarizing it, I am almost forced to throw in that phrase
‘and I don’t know what all,’” Breuker told the audience
with a smile. “The literally hundreds of publications that Morley Science Medal
have been generated by research in his laboratory speak to
the merits and importance of basic research. It is amazing The Morley Medal Committee
to me that this classically trained biologist, plugging away is seeking nominations for the
for over 40 years, has clearly managed to bring the old- 2007 Morley Science Medal. If
fashioned study of anatomy into the 21st century. He is a
living testimony, a poster child for the merits of doing you know of a qualified
basic research.” candidate, please contact Ray
McCuskey earned his bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees Murphy, director of alumni
from Case Western Reserve University. The recipient of
relations, at murphyr@wra.net
many honors and awards, he has been a member and offi-
cer of numerous professional organizations, including a or 330.650.9703. The deadline for nominations
stint as president of the American Association of is Dec. 1, 2006.
Anatomists. His research has included important work

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reunion classes

1931 & 1936 1941

Vin Allin ’36, Ed Levy ’31, Fred Albrecht ’36 1st Row: Howie Wells, Bruce Silver, Bill Peace, Rod Grant
2nd Row: Roy Spielman, Earl Christy, Sherman Hasbrouck

1946
1st Row: Bob Garfield, Jim Lewis, Terry
Garrigan, Bill Laub, Dick Wright and
Bruce Williams
2nd Row: Dan Collister, Doug Hasbrouck,
Fred Neal, Phil Norris, Tom Allchin and
Jim Miller

1951
1st Row: Oxy Golden, Karl Reuther,
George Gray, Bill Roemer
2nd Row: Bill Burleigh, Dave Robinson,
Bob Little, Bill Davidson
3rd Row: Lee Zuker, William Fall, Dick
Van Pelt, Ronald Hess

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1956
1st Row: George Russell, Tom Glick,
Lennig Chang, Bill Milhoan
2nd Row: John Pyke, Alan Wulff,
Jack Fowler, John Kirk
3rd Row: Russ Burleigh, George McCord,
Bill Yeckley, Tom Marks, John Lutton,
Bob McCuskey
4th Row: Stuart Baker, Bob Carabell,
Ben Watkins, Ted Hayes

1966
1st Row: Lane Manning, Jeff Brown,
Rod Kyriakides, Paul Marcus
2nd Row: Myron Levin, Hap Strobel,
Eric Reidenbach, Bob DeShong,
Marc Taliaferro, Harold Paddock,
Chuck Harris
3rd Row: Lester “Bud” Floyd,
George DeBolt, Jim Walker,
Denny Anderson, Tom Daly, Steve Cole

1971
1st Row: Dan Carter, Hector Rodriguez,
David Webb, Tom Myers, Bud Niden,
Mark Bealafeld, Steve Witter,
Marty Hauser, Greg Pennington
2nd Row: David Estabrook, Jim Fraser,
Lee Morin, Hal Donnelly, Tom Getz,
Watts Wacker, Rick Dixon, Charles Sims,
Steve Williams, Rock Gnatovich

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1976
1st Row: Kumar Pillai, Eric Nauffts,
Rick Rundell, Rob Kurilla, Frank Buttitta
2nd Row: Bill Emery, Jim Thompson,
Angus Burton, Kathy Clark,
Harry Thomas, Jane Dawson,
Ruth Levtov Heide, Kip Tobin,
Jeanne Donovan, Larkin Rogers,
Maria Pryce

1981
1st Row: Abby Weary Wenstrup, Jessica Pryce
Burns, Rachel Burnham VanVoorhis, Melissa
Mather, Tracy Hamlin Nolan, Carrie Walker
Nouse, Chris Howlett, Art Chang,
Dave Charlton
2nd Row: Ray Murphy, Lee Smith, Mark
Patton, Jennifer Holden Dunbar, Pete Rebar,
Meg Burns Miller, Diccon Ong, Daphne
Clessuras Shoemaker, Priscilla Vail Caldwell,
Karen Sheehan, Janet Lepke Harris,
David Croasdaile
3rd Row: Dan Kaute, Justin Rogers, Rob
White, Rob Galloway, Tim Merryweather,
Rob Tercek
4th Row: Parke FitzGerald, Jennifer Morton,
Ann Hunter Durr, C. Davies Reed,
Stephanie Fernyak

1986
1st Row: Taeho Jinn, JP Deuble, John
Rah, Mark Hill, Johanna Wagner,
Margaret Cushwa Haller, John Steinhauer,
Jenny Weiss, Betsey Jennings Lockwood,
Laura Jones Fillman, Lesley Hendershott
Cain, Dawn Friedkin, Angela Darling
Carrano, Judy Wilson Ronchetti,
David King
2nd Row: John Rehling, Doug Coen,
Chris Rundell, David Dunne, Rob Austin,
Lisa Tibbals Gilcrest, Stacey Conner
Talley, Sharisse Kimbro Jones,
Rob Hurlbert

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1991
1st Row: Inga Weimer Walker, Jyl Brown
McLaughlin, Shannah Tharp-Taylor,
Kelly Selman Davidson
2nd Row: Charles Kline, Jeffrey Wilcox,
Rachel Blankenship Roukey,
Beth House Wallace

1996
1st Row: Joe Doss, Amit Hazra,
Paul Afrooz, Lisa Buckey,
Jennifer Hoelzer, Mary Vizmeg
2nd Row: Pierce Oswick, Eric Kahrl,
Sig Rydquist, Ernie Hedler IV,
Jennifer Wyer, David Flechner

2001
1st Row: Daniel Rodriguez, Jon
Whittlesey, John Male, Mathew Wilson,
David Dudick, Loren Carlson,
Adam Galea
2nd Row: Lindsay Yost, Christy Neu,
Laura Faulkner, Sarah Hammel, Megan
Peterson, Lisa Friedman, Kate Tyler, Jessy
Smith, Josie Kline, Sabrina Singh,
Jess Chung, Sara Shalowitz
3rd Row: John Sorgi, Brian Torski,
Joe Baglieri, Ben Quagliata, Andrew
“Biff” Freeman, Avi Ravi,
Adam Doskocil, Jon Bingaman,
Mansoor Haque, Pat Donahoe, Ariel Fox,
Sara Sartarelli, Brett Ameche, Eric Snyder,
Wes Cowie, Jan Jakob, Krista Klett,
Phil Ginsberg, Grant Burrier

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 Alumni & Development
Alumni group launches online class notes
n conjunction with the Alumni &

I
“Several alumni suggested this, and it access the news that interests you.
Development Office, the Alumni makes sense that as more alums use Adding a note of your own is
Association Board has intro- the Internet, they want to take advan- easy. Simply choose a category and
duced an online service for WRA tage of more online services. The type in your news. You can add
alums: online notes are far more timely than images, if you like, and you can also
“Many alumni online class the Alumni Record, which comes out indicate whether you’d like your news
only get in touch notes. Now, only twice a year,” Murphy added. to be submitted for publication in the
during their in addition Currently, Reserve offers three Alumni Record, as well.
reunion years. to the popu- secure, password-protected services to “WRA’s online services are meant
lar class registered alumni: the Online Alumni to help alumni connect – and recon-
Using the online notes pub- Directory, the Career Network and the nect – with one another,” commented
class notes, they lished twice new Class Notes. All three can be Christine Bradbury, WRA’s website
can share news a year in the accessed through the alumni page of editor. These services, she added, are
Alumni the school’s website, www.wra.net. In sponsored by the Alumni Association
whenever they Record, you order to take advantage of these serv- Board, which has been working close-
want.” can log onto ices, alumni must first register with ly with Ray Murphy in the Alumni &
Ray Murphy ’81, the Reserve
website and
the Online Directory. To register, sim-
ply select “Staying in Touch” on the
Development Office over the past two
years to identify online services that
Director of see what WRA alumni page, choose Online will benefit all alumni.
Alumni Relations your class- Alumni Directory and follow the “This is all about reaffirming
mates and instructions for first-time users. relationships – with Reserve and with
friends are up to – or add your own Alumni can use the online class each other,” adds Murphy. “Many
news. notes in a variety of ways. When you alumni only get in touch during their
“Online class notes give alums an log in, you’ll see the latest postings reunion years. Using the online class
additional way to pass along news and from all classes. You can select any of notes, they can share news whenever
updates,” said Ray Murphy ’81, direc- the eight categories listed – mar- they want.”
tor of alumni relations, noting that riages, career news, birth announce- 
alumni should have received informa- ments, travel news, etc. – to narrow
tion this fall about the new service, your search, or you can enter your For more information, please visit
which was launched in September. class year (or a range of years) to www.wra.net and click on Alumni.

What are the benefits of a charitable gift annuity?

 Lifetime payments that may be partially tax free.
 Income, gift and estate tax savings.
 Favorable treatment of capital gains.

 An agreement between you and Western Reserve Academy that will benefit both

parties.
 A regular payment determined by your age and the size of the gift.

 Payments do not change and last as long as the recipient of payment lives.

 Funding of a charitable gift annuity can be done with stock, bonds, other securities or

cash. (If funded with highly appreciated securities, one benefit will be that you will
avoid a portion of the capital gains.)
 Generally, if payments are made to you or your spouse, the gift portion goes directly

to Western Reserve Academy, thus avoiding estate taxes and probate costs.
For more information on charitable gift annuities, or for information on including
Western Reserve Academy in your estate plans, please contact Jack McKee, director of
planned giving, at 330.650.5885 or e-mail mckeej@wra.net.

Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006 45

 NEWS OF

OLDRESERVE “Oh, long may time these things preserve”

Classics and coeds:

WRA in the 1870s
President Carroll Cutler’s decision to admit women
paved the way for six true Reserve pioneers
By Thomas L. Vince
Archivist/Historian

hen Theodora Singletary of

W Streetsboro and her two sis-

ters, Harriet and Marie,
enrolled at Western Reserve
Preparatory School in the fall of 1873,
they were among the first young
women to be admitted to our school.
The Singletary sisters would com-
plete the prep school curriculum and
two of them, Theodora and Marie,
would also graduate from the old col-
lege before it moved to Cleveland.
These sisters could have claimed
“legacy” status (if such had existed)
because their father, John C.
Singletary, had graduated from
Western Reserve College in 1835.
He had served as mayor of Akron
before the family moved to
Streetsboro, and as the father of eight,
was pleased to be able to send his
three daughters and one son to Hudson
for a formal education that would pre-
pare them for admission to college.
Mr. Singletary apparently had no prob-
lem with the $25 annual tuition plus $2
for “contingencies.” Boarding would
be extra, and girls were not housed on
campus until the 1880s.
When the Singletary sisters
began their round of classes, they
could have counted 68 students in
Theodora Singletary was one of
Reserve’s first coeds. She earned a bach-
elor’s degree before becoming a teacher
in Colorado.
the Preparatory School. The other
pioneer coeds were Alice Louise
Morrison of Twinsburg, and Julia
Elizabeth Porter and Mary Ella
Addis, both of Hudson. It was Ella
Addis who would gather photos of
her classmates (and teachers) and
assemble an album that provides a
window on campus life in the 1870s.
These six young women were the
beneficiaries of President Carroll
Cutler’s enlightened policy of admit-
ting women to both the college and
the school. When he became school
president in 1871, he announced that
Marie Singletary taught in Denver for 10
years and later studied for a medical
degree. She was the first Reserve alumna
to become a doctor.
“if any woman thirsting for knowl-
edge should seek it at this fountain,
she should not be refused merely
because she was a woman.” Cutler
later stated that nothing in the old col-
lege’s charter “presented any obsta-
cles to the admission of women” and
that there was “no objection on the
part of the Trustees.”
But these pioneers would need to
show that they could master the same
curriculum as their male counterparts.
Since the time of the Civil War, the
Preparatory School curriculum was
designed for a three-year program. In
the first year, students were required
to take Latin (grammar and the first
part of Caesar), mathematics, geogra-

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Ella Addis Pettis taught in New York and
Connecticut and later published two vol-
umes of poetry. Her photo album is
housed in the Reserve archives.
phy, English grammar and rhetoric, a
course that was a combination of
English composition and speech.
Every week there was a session
devoted to student “declamations.”
In their second year, students read
and studied Caesar and Cicero in
Latin, began the study of Greek, con-
tinued with math, studied antiquities in
geography and in their history course
focused on Roman history. In the sec-
ond term of that year, Latin would
cover all eight of Cicero’s orations,
and in Greek they would read the
Anabasis of Xenophon. In math they
would learn the metric system and in
history the topic would be Greece.
If students survived until the third
year, they would study Vergil’s
Bucolics and Georgics in addition to
the Aeneid, while reading Xenophon
in Greek along with Homer’s Iliad,
and expanding their math skills with
algebra and geometry (using the text-
books by Elias Loomis, who had been
on the faculty and had established the
Loomis Observatory). Once these
courses were mastered to satisfaction
(oral and written exams were held
twice a year), the student could move
on to college without benefit of a
commencement ceremony. During
most of the 1870s, Jairus R. Kennan
was principal of the school.
Of those six young women who
entered in 1873, three of them, Ella
President Carroll Cutler of Western
Reserve College. His belief in higher edu-
cation for women opened WRA’s doors
to our first coeds in 1873.
Addis, and Theodora and Marie
Singletary, completed the preparatory
course and went on to earn a bache-
lor’s degree from Western Reserve
College. All three became teachers,
with the Singletary sisters both study-
ing for an advanced degree. Ella
Addis would teach in Middletown,
N.Y., marry and move to Mystic,
Conn. She and her husband later
returned to Ohio, settling in Lisbon,
where she died in 1946. Her photo
album found its way back to
Reserve’s archives many years ago.
Both Theodora and Marie
Singletary eventually moved to
Denver, where both were teachers,
and where Marie studied medicine at
what is now the University of Denver,
earning her M.D. in 1898.
Denver was also the home of one
of their classmates from the old
Preparatory School, Charles Read
Tom Vince is on the web!
Archivist & Historian Tom Vince will be
sharing his thoughts and stories in a blog
on www.wra.net. Learn more about
Western Reserve Academy’s long and col-
orful history by visiting www.wra.net/vis-
itors/history.cfm.
OLD RESERVE
Henry E. Lee was a classmate of WRA’s
first coeds in the 1870s. Lee was mayor
of Hudson from 1888 to 1894.
Pierce, grandson of George E. Pierce,
the great president of the college
whose house is now the home of
Reserve’s headmaster. Like Theodora
and Marie’s brother, Zachary, Charles
Pierce found the classical curriculum
at the school too daunting, and had to
drop out. It was a testimony to these
first WRA “coeds” that they succeed-
ed far beyond what might have been
expected.
The lineal heirs to Theodora and
Marie Singletary were the young
women who enrolled at WRA some
99 years later when the school
resumed its coeducational status in
1972, following nearly 50 years when
WRA was a school for boys only.

If you have any questions or com-
ments about this story, you may con-
tact Archivist & Historian Tom Vince
at vincet@wra.net.
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 Alumni
Notes from the
president’s desk
ct. 6-7 proved to be a spec-
O tacular Homecoming week-
end on the Reserve campus.
This was the fourth annual
Homecoming sponsored by
Reserve’s Alumni Association
Board. In addition to Homecoming,
it was also Parents’ Day, which
brought a large number of parents
and family members to the campus.
On Friday night, the Dads Club
held their annual dinner and auc-
tion, which was then followed by
the traditional student bonfire. On
Saturday, students, families and
alumni were treated to a picnic
luncheon in Memorial Gymnasium.
On Saturday afternoon, the
WRA athletic teams took to the
field for some outstanding perform-
ances. The football, boys soccer and
field hockey teams all won, while
the girls soccer, tennis and volley-
ball teams all lost close matches.
Homecoming Weekend is just
one of many events the Alumni
Association Board sponsors or
hosts. We have many events sched-
uled around the country, and these
can be found on the Alumni page
of the school’s website.
Plans are already underway for
the fifth annual Alumni Association
Golf Tournament, scheduled for
June 8 during Reunion Weekend. I
am pleased to report that thanks to
the hard work of a great golf com-
mittee we raised approximately
$21,000 for the AAB scholarship
fund. We request that the reunion
committees of the 2007 reunion
classes urge their members to par-
ticipate in this great event.
In closing, I would like to wel-
come those who are joining the
board for the upcoming year: Dave
Flechner ’96, James Fowler ’75,
Kerry Kirk ’94, Tucker Marshall
’95, Drew McKechnie ’00 and
Whitney White ’48.
Charles Mullins ’65
Board President
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Association
Alumni Association prize
awarded to Timmis ’07
W
hen 81 avid
golfers
turned out
for the fourth annual
Alumni Association
golf outing in June,
more was at stake
than just prizes – or
bragging rights. With
the event’s growing
success, the Alumni
Association Board
began to recognize its
potential as a
fundraiser, as well. Don Husat ’64 presents Elizabeth Timmis ’07 with the
That’s why, in 2005, Alumni Association Student Prize. With them is last year’s
a board committee, recipient, Piper Beckwith-Collings ’06.
and ultimately the “I was surprised and, of course,
entire board, voted to establish a spe- very happy to receive this award,”
cial student prize. Timmis said. “One nice thing was that
Since its creation, the Alumni Piper received it the year before me,
Association Student Prize has been
and we’re good friends. One of the
awarded annually at the spring reasons that I won the award was for
Celebration of Student Excellence
my work in the ALS fashion show
assembly. “Our goal over time is to (held January 2006 to benefit
make it an endowed scholarship,” said Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Don Husat, former president of the research) with her, so that was very
AAB and now chair of the scholarship fitting.” To complement the show’s
committee. “After consultation with fashions, Timmis provided specially
the headmaster, it was decided to pres- designed jewelry from her Elizabeth
ent the award to a junior each spring Darling line. She has also donated
to help him or her defray such senior proceeds from her jewelry projects to
year expenses as college application Wildlife Trust.
fees. The recipient, among other crite- At Reserve she serves as a chief
ria, should be the kind of person who ambassador for the Admission Office
will well represent Reserve as a gradu- and a writer for the Reserve Record.
ate, and who we believe will remain
An avid equestrian who rides year-
an active and contributory member of round, Timmis has competed success-
the alumni population.”
fully with her two horses in Vermont,
The first recipient, in 2005, was Ohio, New York and Florida.
Piper Beckwith-Collings ’06. An If the Timmis name is familiar to
activist who helped organize several older alumni, that’s because her
fundraising events as a WRA student, father, Jack ’49, as well as two uncles,
Beckwith-Collings is currently a James ’45 and George ’55, preceded
member of the freshman class at her at WRA. “I know my dad is very
Kenyon College, where she plans to happy that I’m at Reserve,” she
study English or drama. This past reflects, “and he loves to come back
spring, Elizabeth Timmis ’07 was because his years here rank high on
named the 2006 winner. the list of the happiest of his life.”
 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

David Hunter ’68 receives AAB award

avid Hunter ’68 was honored

D during Reunion Weekend as

recipient of Reserve’s 2006
Alumni Association Award. A familiar
face to Academy students, faculty and
staff, Hunter has been a staunch advo-
cate for students and a hard-working
member of the Board of Trustees for
more than 20 years; he currently
serves as vice president.
Hunter’s commitment to the
school is hands on. One of the board’s
most visible presences on the Reserve
campus, he has given hours of his
time to the important work of 10 dif-
ferent trustee committees. As chair of
the education and planning committee,
he has led efforts to modernize the
curriculum over the years, reassessing
content and graduation requirements,
as well as overseeing the successful
incorporation of technology into the Alumni Association Board President Charles Mullins ’65, right, presents David
classroom. He has also been instru- Hunter ’68 with the Alumni Association Award.
mental in securing continued accredi-
tation from state and national educa- tion of the full involvement of the A partner in the Akron law firm
tional rating associations. Board of Visitors, which was created in Brouse McDowell, Hunter received his
Alumni Association Board the late 1980s and functions in an advi- bachelor’s degree from Princeton and
President Chuck Mullins ’65, who sory capacity to the Board of Trustees. his law degree from the University of
presented the award on behalf of the “These are important things,” he Akron. He is recognized for his expert-
Alumni Association, noted that said, “but most meaningful, for me, ise in general business law and com-
Hunter’s experience and expertise had has been the opportunity to observe the mercial law; he also serves as CEO
been invaluable to the school, and caring and the dedication of the facul- and chairman of the board of directors
also immensely helpful to those with ty, across the board, capped off every for Valley Savings Bank. The Hunter
whom he serves. “In my position as year at commencement. I’ve made it a family’s connection with Reserve is a
president of the Alumni Association priority to attend commencement each longstanding one: David Hunter’s
Board,” Mullins noted, “I also sit on year. I’ve had the privilege of having brother and sister, James ’72 and Anne
the Board of Trustees, and David has both of my daughters graduate from Durr ’81, are both graduates, as are
given me great advice and counsel in Reserve, and I’ve seen what the school daughters Marie ’01 and Helen ’06.
helping me to understand the impor- and the faculty have done for them, This fall a niece, Katie Durr, has
tant role the boards play at Reserve.” and for their classmates. That’s really joined the student body as a member
what it’s all about.” of the Class of 2010.
“I am very honored,” commented
Hunter about the award. “And when I
had a chance to look back and reflect
on some of some of the previous Alumni Association Award
recipients – including David Originating in 1982, the Alumni Association
Warshawsky ’51, Jeff Keener ’50,
Dagmar Fellowes ’75 and Anne Award is presented annually to an alumnus or
Campbell Goodman ’84 – this recog- alumna “who has demonstrated outstanding
nition takes on added significance. commitment to Reserve, primarily significant
It’s a real honor for me to be included volunteer work on behalf of the school.” To
in their number.”
Reflecting on Reserve’s growth nominate someone, visit the school’s website
over the past two decades, Hunter noted and use the online form in the Alumni section.
the importance of the physical plant’s
transformation, as well as the cultiva-

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 In Memoriam
When someone from the Reserve community
passes away, many members of our extended
family feel the loss. To help us keep classmates
informed, please send a copy of the obituary to
the Alumni & Development Office, 115 College
St., Hudson, Ohio 44236.
The Academy has learned of the deaths of
the following members of the Reserve
family:
Louise Saywell Donofrio ’27
William R. Ingraham ’34
John B. Darrow ’35
G. Robert Fox ’36
Edward G. Brouse ’38
Ford W. Brunner ’38
H. Eustis Reily ’38
John D. Rugg ’38
Theodore F. Vogel Jr. ’39
John M. Dickerson ’42
John D. Kramer ’45
Harry S. Milligan Jr. ’46
Jack L. Renner ’47
Robert A. Young ’51 (Feb. 14, 2005)
R.W. “Johnny” Apple Jr. ’52
John W. Donahey Jr. ’54
Richard H. Geuder ’54
R. Thomas Collins Jr. ’66
Eric R. Bury ’80
Ellen Benn
Sally Helwig
Louise Elizabeth Saywell Heath
Donofrio
Class of 1927
Louise Elizabeth Saywell Heath Donofrio
of Delaware, Ohio, died Aug. 7, 2006; she
was one of the last surviving female stu-
dents from the 1920s era. Donofrio attend-
ed WRA from 1923 through 1926 and
would have graduated with her class in
1927, but in 1926 Reserve made the deci-
sion to become an all boys’ school. She
went on to graduate from Oberlin College,
where she was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa. She taught both English and
French at the high school and college lev-
els, including several years at Youngstown
State University. A member of the Asbury
United Methodist Church and a longtime
active member and officer of the United
Methodist Women, she was also an advo-
cate for education and a great reader.
Donofrio kept in touch with Reserve, vis-
50 Reserve Alumni Record Fall 2006
iting the archives in recent years to pres-
ent a photograph of her father, George W.
Saywell, Class of 1897. She is survived
by a daughter, Alice Marie Heath (Lloyd
Baker); a son, William Ralph Heath
(Roser); three grandchildren; three great-
grandchildren; a niece and two nephews.
She was preceded in death by her first
husband, Ralph Heath; her second hus-
band, Guido Donofrio; her sister, Marie
Saywell Bernon; and a cousin, Harvey
Hanna ’34.
William R. Ingraham
Class of 1934
The Academy recently learned of the
death of William R. Ingraham on Nov. 4,
2004. A graduate of the University of
Wyoming with a master’s degree from
Western Reserve University, Ingraham
was a retired clinical psychologist who
spent winters in Florida and summers in
Michigan before moving to Akron in
2002. A World War II army veteran, he
served in the South Pacific; in 1944 he
wrote to Headmaster Joel Hayden from
New Guinea, thanking him for birthday
and Christmas cards in a letter included
in Remembering the Boys: “It’s a far cry
from the Chapel bell of the Academy to
the air raid sirens here, but the cards
helped recall those ‘good old days.’”
John B. Darrow
Class of 1935
Captain John B. Darrow of Akron died
July 3, 2005. After Reserve, Darrow
attended MIT and Babson College, work-
ing for the Goodyear Flying Squad before
joining the Naval Reserve in 1941. He
was sent to Annapolis for Naval Reserve
Midshipman’s school as a “90-day won-
der” and later served as commanding offi-
cer of the USS Quirinus, the USS
Proserpine and LST 903, which he com-
manded all through the Pacific campaign
to the signing of the peace treaty in
Tokyo Bay. This ship ferried troops, tanks
and Patton’s horses. After his discharge,
he founded the Akron Camera Company
and Falls Camera Company. He remained
in the reserves and was recalled to duty
during the Korean War. In retirement he
was a member of several photographic
societies and was an avid camera collec-
tor and dealer, specializing in pre-World
War II photographica. He is survived by
his wife of 51 years, Patricia; sons John
Jr. and James (Irene); daughters Nancy
Darrow (Dan Carlton) and Elizabeth
Vernon (Michael); and five grandchildren.
G. Robert Fox
Class of 1936
G. Robert Fox of DeLand, Fla., died July
24, 2006. A graduate of the University of
Michigan, he earned a master’s and PhD
from Case Western Reserve University. He
served as school superintendent in North
Fairfield, Plain City and West Geauga,
Ohio, before becoming a professor of edu-
cation at Hiram College in 1957. He was
director of graduate studies at Stetson
University in DeLand from 1969 until his
retirement in 1980. After retirement, he
devoted his time to Rotary International
and other voluntary service activities.
Edward G. Brouse
Class of 1938
Edward G. “Ned” Brouse of Walpole,
Mass., formerly of Buffalo, died June 4,
2006. At Reserve Brouse captained the
golf team in his senior year; he later grad-
uated cum laude from Kenyon College,
where he won the Ohio Collegiate
Conference Diving Championship. He
was also honored as the student who had
done the most for Kenyon. He later
attended Harvard Business School and
was decorated for his service as a navy
lieutenant in the South Pacific during
World War II. He retired as a partner of
Trubee Collins and Co. of Buffalo after a
long career as an investment advisor. An
Eagle Scout, an avid golfer and a tennis
player, he served on the boards of the
Buffalo Country Club and the Buffalo
Club. Survivors include his wife of 62
years, Ann House; son Edward Jr.; daugh-
ters Cristy Richardson (William) and
Laurie Diercks (William); six grandchil-
dren, three step-grandchildren and several
nieces and nephews.
IN MEMORIAM
Ford W. Brunner
Class of 1938
Ford W. Brunner of Akron died July 8,
2006; his beloved wife of 62 years, Eileen,
died June 19. At Reserve Brunner was
president of his class both junior and senior
years. He went on to graduate from Yale
and earned his law degree from Akron Law
School. From 1942 to 1980 he was
employed by Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Company, where he served as head patent
counsel and was involved in worldwide lit-
igation. From 1985 to 1990 he was
Monsanto’s consulting patent attorney.
Among his many memories of Reserve
were “the warm and lasting friendships
developed during my four years; the values
received and the lessons learned from men
such as Dr. Hayden, Mr. Wood, Scotch
McGill, and Messrs. Jones, Waring, Parker,
Frew, Wallace, Mickel and others; the
putzes we thought we’d get away with but
usually didn’t; the fullness and orderliness
of each day spent on campus.” He summed
up his Reserve years this way: “On a scale
of 1 to 10, my years at Reserve must rate a
10-plus from me.” Brunner is survived by
sons Ford III ’63 (Elizabeth), David ’65
and James ’67 (Dianne); daughter-in-law
Kim; grandchildren Jonathan ’89, Jeffrey,
Andrew, Lauren and Michael; and three
great-grandchildren. Two of his children,
Michael and Cordelia, preceded him in
death.
H. Eustis Reily
Class of 1938
H. Eustis Reily of New Orleans died Oct.
16, 2005. Reily graduated from Dartmouth,
worked as a chemist, served on the
destroyer USS Mullany in the Pacific dur-
ing World War II and was wounded in a
kamikaze attack. He was president of a
chemical manufacturing company from
1946 to 1985 and was actively involved in
the community as a member of several
civic and non-profit boards. A man of faith
and a lifelong member of the Methodist
church, Reily thrived on adventure and
even survived an avalanche in the Swiss
Alps. He was also an avid skier, hunter and
fisherman. He is survived by his wife of 60
years, Frederica; son Robin (Pamela);
daughters Christine and Peggy (Barrett);
four grandchildren; three great-grandsons
and two brothers.
John D. Rugg
Class of 1938
John D. Rugg of Granville died Nov. 11,
2005. A World War II army veteran, Rugg
graduated from the University of Texas.
He retired in 1972 after 22 years as direc-
tor of information services for the U.S.
Government Air Weather Service; he then
earned his master’s degree in library sci-
ence from Brigham Young University. He
was a member of Centenary United
Methodist Church, the Granville
Historical Society and the Licking County
Genealogical Society. His love of genealo-
gy and travel led him to form his own
business, Ohio Roots. Preceded in death
by his wife, Mildred, Rugg is survived by
his son, Paul (Judy); grandson Christopher
(Stephanie) and sister Molly Giles.
Theodore F. Vogel Jr.
Class of 1939
Theodore F. Vogel Jr. of Mequon, Wis.,
died July 31, 2006. After Reserve Vogel
worked at Lockheed Aircraft
Experimental
Department and was
involved in building
the first Constellation.
During World War II
he was a pilot in the
Naval Air Corps. After
the war he worked for
McGraw-Edison and
then started Vogel and
Associates, the first executive recruiting
company in Wisconsin. A man of many
talents, he wrote for the Milwaukee
Journal and authored numerous books,
including the mystery novel The Muskie
Murders, which he called “a good cabin
book.” Vogel was active in his communi-
ty and was a board member of the
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra,
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and
University Lake School. A proud member
of the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall
of Fame, he caught a world-record
muskellunge in Lake of the Woods,
Canada, where he spent some of his hap-
piest days. Survivors include his wife,
Diane “Daisy”; sons Theodore III,
Charles (Jane) and Lindsay (Jennifer);
five grandchildren and a brother, Alfred.
John M. Dickerson
Class of 1942
John M. Dickerson of Minneapolis died
Aug. 18, 2006, after a long battle with
cancer. One of four brothers to attend
Reserve, Dickerson graduated from the
University of Chicago and received his
law degree from the University of
Arizona. After practic-
ing law in Duluth,
Minn., he joined First
American National
Bank (now Wells
Fargo Bank) and rose
to secretary of the
board of directors and
vice president. After
the death of his wife,
Marion, in 1971, he became director of
development at Poly Prep Country Day
School in Brooklyn and later held the
same position at the College of St.
Scholastica in Duluth. In 1974 he became
secretary of Northwest Bancorporation in
Minneapolis. In Duluth he was active in
many civic and community organizations,
including the Duluth-Superior Symphony
Association, Family Service Society,
Pilgrim Congregational Church, United
Way, Red Cross, the Duluth Playhouse
and other Twin Cites community theaters,
where he directed or acted in 35 produc-
tions. He received the Duluth Jaycees’
Private Enterprise Award and
Distinguished Service Award. Survivors
include daughter Katharine; two grand-
children; a great-granddaughter; brother
Richard ’42 (Joan); numerous nieces and
nephews, including John Dickerson ’61,
grandnieces and grandnephews; and a
very dear friend, Lucile Roemer. Brothers
Willard ’36 and Spencer ’38 preceded
him in death.
John D. Kramer
Class of 1945
John D. Kramer of Akron died March 26,
2006, of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Born
and raised in Akron, Kramer graduated
from Notre Dame and received his med-
ical degree from the University of
Pennsylvania Medical School. After fur-
ther training and two years as a pediatri-
cian in the U.S. Air Force, he had a very
active career in pediatric cardiology, pedi-
atric education and community service in
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 IN MEMORIAM

the Akron area. The first pediatric subspe- Jack L. Renner front-page “news analysis” articles,
cialist in Akron, Kramer worked on Class of 1947 which spanned 30 years of national and
behalf of children for over 30 years international events. He may have been
Jack L. Renner of Hudson died June 25,
through his long associations with equally well known for his virtually
2006. At Reserve and later at the
Children’s Hospital, unlimited expense account. As a student
University of Akron, Renner was an out-
Northeast Ohio at Reserve, Apple was sports editor of
standing wrestler, attributing his success
Universities College of the Reserve Record
to his WRA coach, Ed Ellis, whom he
Medicine and editor-in-chief of
called “the finest wrestling coach I have
(NEOUCOM) and the yearbook. His
ever met.” Renner sur-
Summit County father hoped he would
vived a bout with
Children Services. A join the family busi-
polio at the age of 21
highly respected ness – a chain of
and went on to earn a
teacher of young Akron area grocery
law degree from Case
physicians, Kramer stores – but he went
Western Reserve.
was instrumental in the evolution and on to Princeton and
After graduation he
planning of NEOUCOM and served as eventually received
began a 40-year career
the pediatrics department’s first chair. At his bachelor’s degree from Columbia’s
in patent law with Ely,
Children’s Hospital he held several School of General Studies. By then he
Fry and Hamilton in
important positions, including director of was already working as a journalist, at
Akron, ultimately retiring as president
cardiology and director of pediatric edu- The Wall Street Journal and The
and senior partner of the firm, now
cation. Throughout his career Kramer Newport News Daily Press before being
known as Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak,
received numerous honors, including hired by NBC News. But he made his
Taylor & Weber. He also spent years
recognition from Summit County name at The New York Times, serving as
working at his parents’ swimming park in
Children Services for 45 years of “dedi- bureau chief in Albany, Lagos, Nairobi,
Munroe Falls, now part of the Metro
cation and devotion in providing quality Saigon, Moscow, London and
Parks system. His interests over the years
medical care to the abused and neglected Washington. In 1976, MORE magazine
included fishing, flying small planes, sail-
children of Summit County.” Of his years called Apple “America’s most powerful
ing and woodcarving. An active supporter
at Reserve he once commented, “Above political reporter.” He responded, “I am
of WRA, he once recalled his fondest
all my fondest memories are of the vari- frightened by it, or perhaps awed is a
Reserve memories: “the lifelong friends I
ous members of the Class of 1945 and all better word. And I am very reluctant to
made; those masters who gave me a
the fun times thus involved.” A brother, throw it around in the newspaper. I’m
chance, even though I was in continuous
James ’43, preceded him in death. very ambivalent about the power I have
jeopardy of being asked to leave because
Kramer is survived by his beloved wife and the way it’s used. Yet I would be
of my poor academic standing; and the
of 45 years, Joan; seven children, transparently un-candid if I didn’t say I
coaching staff who labored to encourage
Margaret Taylor (Patrick), Jim (Mary), do enjoy it enormously.” Apple was later
an uncoordinated kid from the country,
Devitt (Julia), Molly Scantling (David), named chief correspondent and then
without any athletic skills, to do his best
Karen Beringer (Don), Michael and Ellen associate editor of The Times, but in his
and in the process win varsity letters in
Seder (Scott); sister-in-law Marilyn later years he spent more time covering
three sports.” He will be remembered for
Kramer and 21 grandchildren. food and travel than politics and war. He
his honesty, integrity and strong work
combined his love for fine dining with
ethic. Renner is survived by his wife of
Harry S. Milligan Jr. his sense of wanderlust in Apple’s
more than 40 years, Nancy; and two chil-
Class of 1946 Europe and Apple’s America, two books
dren, Julie and John ’86.
full of travel and restaurant tips culled
Harry S. Milligan Jr. of Coconut Creek,
from his expansive personal experience.
Fla., died June 26, 2006. A Korean War R.W. “Johnny” Apple Jr.
In 1976 Apple was awarded the Waring
veteran, Milligan was a graduate of Ohio Class of 1952 Prize, Reserve’s highest alumni honor.
University with a master’s degree from
R.W. “Johnny” Apple Jr. of Washington, Always proud of his Ohio roots, Apple
Columbia University School of
D.C., died Oct. 4, 2006, of complica- was a loyal WRA alumnus who served
Journalism. He was publisher and owner
tions from thoracic cancer. One of on the Board of Visitors and visited the
of the Sun Bulletin newspaper in
Reserve’s best known and most colorful campus as a special speaker when his
Binghamton, N.Y. He is survived by the
alumni, Apple joined The New York busy schedule permitted. In 2002, on the
mother of his children, Sharon Gardner
Times staff in 1963 and spent the next 43 occasion of his 50th WRA reunion, a
Koehler; daughter Laura Berwick; sons
years parsing wars, revolutions and pres- large alumni audience heard him reflect
Kip Hunsinger and Kristopher Milligan;
idential campaigns while also ruminating on his Reserve days and on his career. “I
sisters Jenny Douglas and Janus McLean;
about culture, the arts and gastronomy. arrived (at Reserve) in 1948, thinner,
and seven grandchildren.
His final Times feature was published more hirsute and less myopic,” he said
Oct. 22. He was well known for his wryly, adding that Reserve had “opened

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IN MEMORIAM
huge numbers of windows” for him. It
was English teacher “Jiggs” Reardon, he
noted, who launched Apple’s career in
journalism by asking, “You ever think of
writing for a living?” That’s just what he
did, educating and entertaining millions
of readers in the process. Apple leaves
his wife of 24 years, Betsey, who was
his “traveling companion, driver and
partner at table,” according to Apple’s
Times obituary. He is also survived by
two stepchildren and a sister.
John W. Donahey Jr.
Class of 1954
John W. Donahey Jr. of Edgewater, Fla.,
died Feb. 24, 2006, after a battle with
cancer. Remembered for his warm smile
and his ability to bring laughter to every
situation, Donahey attended Denison and
the University of the South. He began his
career in radio at WLAC in Nashville and
was an active member of the Nashville
Advertising Federation; he later was
owner, president and general manager of
WTAI and WLLV FM in Indialantic, Fla.
He continued his advertising career into
retirement and was active in several com-
munity organizations, including the
American Cancer Society. He is survived
by his wife, Jeanne; sons John III and
Albert (Debra); daughter Carol Holley;
stepdaughter Robin Sampson and two
grandchildren.
Richard H. Geuder
Class of 1954
Richard H. Geuder died Nov. 5, 2006, in
Wilmington, Del. At Reserve, Geuder was
a prefect and a member of both the varsi-
ty soccer and track teams. After earning a
bachelor’s degree from Colgate
University and a degree in mechanical
engineering from Case Western Reserve,
he began a 30-year career in the market-
ing of plastic materials with DuPont. In
retirement he was very active at
Westminster Presbyterian Church as a
member of the session, an officer of the
church trustees and a deacon; he also
served in many areas related to the
improvement and maintenance of the
church’s facilities. Geuder enjoyed build-
ing and volunteered with Habitat for
Humanity in Wilmington and at the Boy
Scout Camp Minsi in the Poconos. He
was also a counselor with SCORE, work-
ing with numerous clients to help them
become small business owners. He is sur-
vived by his wife of 47 years, Sara, and a
daughter, Emily. He was predeceased by
a son, Robert.
R. Thomas Collins Jr.
Class of 1966
R. Thomas Collins Jr. of Vienna, Va., died
May 24, 2006, of leukemia. At Reserve
Collins was co-captain of the varsity foot-
ball team; he went on to earn his bache-
lor’s degree from Boston University and
his master’s from Columbia University’s
Graduate School of Journalism. A writer,
editor, publisher, lobbyist and internation-
al public affairs executive, he worked as a
reporter for newspapers in New England
before moving to the New York Daily
News in 1973. From 1979 to 1996 he
worked for Mobil Oil, holding various
management posts including manager of
public affairs for Mobil’s worldwide
exploration and refining unit. After retire-
ment he served as vice president of the
Broken Hill Proprietary Company.
Collins was active in community affairs.
He traveled extensively throughout his
career in the oil industry and published
his experiences in a series of books he
called the Newswalker series. In 1998 he
founded RavensYard Publishing, a print-
on-demand micropublishing company; he
also began publishing a blog, Quillnews,
to help readers make sense of the rapidly
changing world. His family narrative,
One Life at a Time – A New World Family
Narrative 1630-1960, documents his chil-
dren’s ancestry and origins. He is sur-
vived by his loving family: his wife, Sun
Oak; daughter Lee; son Micah; mother
Mary Close Savage; sister Tara Gordon
and brother William ’69.
Eric R. Bury
Class of 1980
Eric R. Bury of Savannah, Ga., one of
three brothers to attend Reserve, died May
11, 2006, after a long battle with cancer. A
graduate of Ohio State University, Bury
joined the Ohio Air National Guard, retir-
ing 22 years later as a major, flying A-7
and F-16 aircraft. He was also a commer-
cial pilot for Piedmont commuter, TWA,
American and United
Airlines, where he was
a first officer out of
Chicago O’Hare. His
brother Carl ’73 pre-
ceded him in death; he
is survived by his chil-
dren, Nathan and
Amelia; his parents,
Carl and Sharon;
brother Mark ’76 and two nephews.
FRIENDS OF THE ACADEMY
Ellen E. Benn
Ellen E. Benn, known as “Aunt Ellen” to
Reserve alumni of the late 1980s, died
Aug. 24, 2006. A lifelong resident of
Kenmore, she was an enthusiastic sup-
porter of WRA football. Great-aunt to
David Blankenship ’89 and Rachel
Blankenship Roukey ’91, she attended
her first WRA football game in 1986, at
the age of 68, and soon was an unofficial
cheerleader for the team. An article in the
winter 1989 Alumni Record noted, “Aunt
Ellen has never sat down at a game. She
moves constantly along the sidelines with
the action. Her deep ringing voice is
made to order. ‘Let’s move it… get ’em
defense!’”
Sally L. Helwig
Sally L. Helwig of Severna Park, Md.,
died Jan. 24, 2006, after an eight-month
battle with pancreatic cancer. She was the
wife of George Helwig, who served as
Reserve’s athletic director from 1960 to
1974. Known for her “green thumb” gar-
dens and her expert knitting skills,
Helwig also enjoyed bridge, cross country
skiing, sailing and traveling. In addition
to her husband of 55 years, she leaves
three children, Anne Adams, Karen
Olsson and David Helwig ’78; four
grandchildren and a brother.
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Charles E. Mullins ’65,
President
Olney, Md.
Charles R. Purse ’78,
Vice President
Greenwich, Conn.
Inga Weimer Walker ’91,
Vice President
Hudson, Ohio
Lorraine Debose ’93,
Secretary
Euclid, Ohio
Jeffrey E. Johnston ’89,
Treasurer
University Heights, Ohio
Carl R. Apthorp III ’50
Aurora, Ohio
Bruce H. Baker ’78
Lakewood, Ohio
Jessica Andrews Bartlett ’95
Chicago, Ill.
Dorisalaan T. Bert ’94
Columbus, Ohio
Jyl Brown-McLaughlin ’91
South Walpole, Mass.
Harrison T. Bubb ’57
Hudson, Ohio
Headmaster
Dr. Henry Flanagan Jr.
Director of Academy
Advancement
Helen Tremaine Gregory
Director of Major Gifts
Ruth Andrews
Director of Planned Giving
Jack McKee ’64
Director of Alumni Relations
Ray Murphy ‘81
Director of Special Events
Greta Rothman
Director of the Annual Fund
Lisa Sabol
2006-2007 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD
James G. Clessuras ’88 Robert E. C. Little ’51 Ross B. Simons ’69
San Francisco, Calif. Pepper Pike, Ohio Alexandria, Va.
Steven B. Copperman ’88 Tucker H. Marshall ’95 John P. Stafford ’74
Hudson, Ohio Brecksville, Ohio Bedford, Va.
Jay R. Davis ’77 William G. Martin ’52 Kathleen Sauber
Sugar Hill, Ga. Blacklick, Ohio Steinbock ’87
Jeffrey R. Egdell ’92 Amery B. Martinez ’95 Louisville, Ky.
Beverly Hills, Mich. Charlotte, N.C. Charles J. Tercek ’79
Beverly Hills, Calif.
George R. Evans ’84 Kristen Lepke Mayer ’84
Sherman Oaks, Calif. Aurora, Ohio Charles L. Tramel II ’79
Medina, Ohio
David H. Flechner ’96 Robert S.
New York, N.Y. McCulloch III ’69 Megan McArn
Salem, Ohio Valentine ’85
Marianne Schweikert
Fouts ’83 James M. McDowell ’48 Redding, Conn.
Avon Lake, Ohio Lakewood, Ohio Cheryl A. Wear ’82
Akron, Ohio
James K. Fowler ’75 Edward D. McKechnie ’00
York, Pa. Arlington, Va. Whitney R. White ’48
Phoenix, Ariz.
Charles M. Hammel ’65 Meredith Dorson
Hudson, Ohio Mitchell ’87 James J. Yoo ’93
Indianapolis, Ind. Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Joseph S. Huang ’88
Ashtabula, Ohio Andrew I. Rand ’85
Beverly Farms, Mass.
Donovan D. Husat ’64
Hudson, Ohio Larkin Rogers ’76
Hudson, Ohio
C. Randolph Keller ’76
Cleveland Heights, Ohio Marc J. Ruxin ’88
San Francisco, Calif.
Kerry Kirk ’94
McClean, Va.
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Don Husat ’64 Western Reserve Academy adheres to a longstanding policy of admitting
Halley Stith ’97 students of any race, color, creed, religion, national and ethnic origin
Mialie Szymanski ’99 subject to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally
accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not
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