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bookshelf ing potential as a creative medium. in See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception Madeline Schwartzman, architect, filmmaker, artist and professor of architecture and art at barnard college and parsons School of Design, presents an explosive and unique survey that captures the fascinating relationship between design, the body, the senses, and technology. a timely discussion with cutting-edge design, See Yourself Sensing examines work from the last 50 years by artists, architects and designers who have been experimenting with the boundaries of our senses, changing the way we experience the world. events that hurtle to a startling and haunting conclusion. The story unfolds in scenes of hallucinatory intensity, from a commuter train ride to bacchanal parties. author clancy Martin called the book “a beautifully written story about all of the many different reasons we need love and are terrified to lose it.” on Life’s Terms by dr. richard Wanderman ’61 Xlibris, march 2010 Partners in Parenting: The questions parents ask. The answers they need. by dr. meir Wikler ’65 artscroll, march 2011 in On Life’s Terms poet, author and doctor richard Wanderman ’61 The arriviste paints the animated by James Wallenstein ’81 world through milkweed editions, June, 2011 lyrical verses and rhyme in this rich in a starred review poetry collection. Booklist described He expresses his artistry and humanity The Arriviste, James as he reveals his thoughts in poignant Wallenstein’s ’81 verses that encourage readers to first novel as having ponder a variety of subjects, including “the muscular grace imagination, choices, goals, healing the of an expert tennis soul and more. a pediatrician who had player or strong a private practice, and who also swimmer,” and as a practiced clinical ecology/ nuanced tale of environmental Medicine for 30 years, miserliness and ambition, emotional Dr. Wanderman notes that the focus of bankruptcy and betrayal. The narrator, his writing is on “emotion and positive silver-haired lawyer and venture attitude which grew out of people capitalist neil fox, lives alone in his watching and experience.” one poem palatial house on long island during the from the collection, “choices in life” 1970’s. His wife has left him; his begins: “visions float in and out of our 17-year-old daughter keeps her disconsciousness/reminding us of past tance; and he is still mourning his experiences and future desires. each young son’s death. cigarette and drink has its emotional value/a price tag in hand, neil is cold, hostile, caustically exacted from our being…” witty, and adamantly solitary. but bud younger, the energetic and naïve ‘arriviste’ who has moved in next door with his loving family, wangles his way into neil’s fortress of anger and into a treacherous deal with neil and Mickey, neil’s eccentric, avaricious brother and business partner, to set up a factory on a caribbean island, setting in motion from the moment of their birth our children are our greatest pleasure— and often, our greatest challenge. colicky newborns, a 2-year-old’s tantrums, homesickness at sleep away camp, or the roller coaster adolescent years—being a parent can be puzzling, perplexing, and confusing. in Partners in Parenting psychologist and therapist Dr. Meir Wikler addresses the kinds of questions he has heard in his years of practice, and in providing advice to parents as an author and lecturer. Some of the issues seem simple, and are encountered by parents on a daily basis, but even these can become more complex, when it comes to agreement or disagreement between the parents, on such issues as strictness vs. leniency, relieving a child’s anxieties, and many more. Dr. Wikler is a renowned family counselor and practitioner in the orthodox Jewish community, and some of the questions he addresses and the answers he gives apply specifically to members of that community, but his advice is sound, and can be applied by all. $ 48 Horace mann magazine Winter 2012

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Horace Mann - Winter 2012

Horace Mann - Winter 2012
Contents
Letters
Greetings from Dr. Tom Kelly
Greetings from Melissa Parento ’90
Horace Mann School’s 125th Anniversary Observances Begin
Strategic Thinking
New Initiatives in Institutional Research and Admissions
HM's New Director of College Counseling
Timothy HO and Monica Merlo are 2011 Tina and Dave Bellet Teaching Excellence Award Winners
Langfan Oratorical Contest, 2011
Horace Mann School Graduates 178 in June, 2011
Alumni Council Corner
Bookshelf
Class Notes
Memorials
Philanthropy and You

Horace Mann - Winter 2012