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Class Notes class notes lumni news is important to the entire Horace Mann School community. please keep us up-to-date by sending your news and pictures to the alumni House and Development office, Horace Mann School, 231 West 246th Street, riverdale, new york 10471, by faxing news to 718-432-3010 or by e-mailing your notes and pictures to alumni@horacemann. org. alumni may also use the class notes function on the Graduate resources section of www. horacemannalumni.org. We update the information on the website weekly. class notes are published twice a year in Horace Mann Magazine, and are archived online. a 1944 1949 the class of 1944 will celebrate its 65th reunion october 24, 2009. 1924 the class of 1949 will celebrate its 60th reunion october 24, 2009. Many a new yorker who read The New York Post on May 17, 2009 must have marveled over the article about Elsa Barnouw. The story described how the alumna of the Horace Mann School for Girls moved into her current Morningside Heights apartment with her family when she was 12 years old, and has more or less remained in the same dwelling for the last 90 of her 102 years. except for her dorm experience as an undergraduate at Mt. Holyoke college, living in england helping children after WW ii, and some time spent in homes on Madison avenue and long island in the 1960s, she returned to the apartment near columbia that family members still occupied, and that her father, a professor at the University, found when he moved his family of six to new york from Holland. after Mt. Holyoke, elsa barnouw went on to Teachers college at columbia University to study elementary education. Upon completing her masters she opened a nursery school in Morningside Heights. now named The children’s learning center the school is still going strong. The educator also wrote a book about teaching children and was an accomplished chamber violinist, ballroom dancer and avid bird-watcher. She was quoted in the article as saying she enjoyed high school at Horace Mann, where she was a star forward on the basketball team. october 9, 2009. The show, titled “Here and about” opened with a reception on august 7, 2009. it features watercolors and oils of the stunning Sheep Hill and nearby Williamstown landscape. The paintings from this artist’s long career include area landscapes in watercolor with some oils. blair says she began painting as a young girl when her grandmother gave her a set of paints. She has been painting ever since. an art major at Skidmore college for two years she left college in WWii to help with the war effort by working as a draftsman and artist in the secret radar Department at General electric in Schenectady, new york. Then came many years of representational painting. in 1970s, she switched to acrylics and worked in an abstracted, hardedge style. The paintings in the exhibit are a return to representational painting, aided by blair's long familiarity with on-site sketching and using a camera as an aid. 1939 Phyllis Emmerich Blair ’40 shows one of her new York paintings. Her current exhibit also features numerous rural landscapes. the class of 1939 will celebrate its 70th reunion october 24, 2009. 1940 1942 Phyllis Emmerich Blair’s exhibit of paintings at the Williamstown rural lands Foundation’s Sheep Hill headquarters at Sheep Hill in Williamstown, Ma, continues through nils i. Lindquist completed a book on the Seabees in WWii “lest We Forget island X” for the veterans History project, american Folk life center, library of congress. please see nils lindquist collection: (aFc/2002/001/51594). class correspondent irwin Spiegel sent the following news, from information he gathered last spring and sent to the HM alumni House and Development office in June 2009: Hello again. it’s springtime in new york: carol and i are back in Manhattan preparing for another summer in the big city. it was a pleasant winter in Florida, highlighted as usual by a luncheon reunion of HM fortyniners that included (alphabetically) Dick asher, richard Greene, Dick Kleid, Mitch rosenheim, Marv rubin, andy Taub, Jay Tischenkel and myself. Bob Leder and Steve Finestone were unable to attend. Dick Kleid told us he’s still a member of the palm beach town council… Dick Greene volunteers for the Susan Koman Foundation and the Jewish Family and child Services… Mitch rosenheim does part-time work for a local law firm when not volunteering at a nature preserve… Marv rubin remains active in restaurant brokerage… and Jay Tischenkel still handles fund development for nova Southeastern University. as in the past, irwin Block is showing his photographic expertise as an active member of the essex, cT art association. His most recent exhibits were in Stamford and essex. as part of his semiretirement, Jerry Diamond has moved to Sarasota, Fl. However, he periodically flies up to ny to service some clients who still require his legal expertise. When not busy with family business (“Mainly Monograms”) Dan alexander visits his two alma maters, HM and U of penn, and also spends time with his grandchildren whose ages now range from 24 down to 2. (That makes for a very busy grandpa!). last June, Bob ader retired—partially—from the U of rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. However, to stay active he serves as mentor for several post-doctorate students… Dr. Morton Gluck, while still in practice, also finds time to enjoy his three step-grandchildren. He planned Horace Mann Magazine Fall 2009 49 http://www.horacemannalumni.org http://www.horacemannalumni.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Horace Mann Magazine - Fall 2009

Horace Mann Magazine - Fall 2009
Contents
Letters
Greetings from the Head of School
Greetings from the Director of Development
Enter Laughing: the Humor of Horace Mann School
News of the School
Alumni Council Corner
Bookshelf
Class Notes
Memorials
Philanthropy and You

Horace Mann Magazine - Fall 2009