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Class Notes class notes Alumni news is important to the entire Horace Mann School community. Please keep us up-todate by sending your news and pictures to the Alumni House and Development Office, Horace Mann School, 231 West 246th Street, Bronx, New York 10471, by faxing news to 718-432-3010, or by emailing your notes and pictures to alumni@Horacemann.org. Alumni may also use the Class Notes function on the Graduate Resources section of HM’s newly redesigned website www.Horacemann.org. Alumni can now also post information to news@Horacemann.org. We update information on the Alumni section of the Horace Mann School website weekly, and many items about alumni appear on the News section of www.Horacemann.org. Class Notes are published twice a year in Horace Mann Magazine, and are archived online. Harvard during the McCarthy period and as the ‘white’ partner in an interracial marriage. Quotations from contemporary letters and documents reveal the disapproval of these activities by my family, Harvard College, and the FBI. My classmates may recognize some of the characters in the story.” Read more at http://www.domesticdiversity.com. 1931 Helen Hazell Quanjer is 96 years old and lives in an assisted living apartment near her daughter in Vermont. 1945 1949 1934 John (Hoagy) Haldenstein lives in the Princeton, NJ area and keeps busy as a director of the Evergreen Forum Academic Project. He’s made many new friends while keeping in touch with old friends. Marsha (Betty) Hunt has led a remarkable life. Swept up by the film industry not long after graduating from Horace Mann High School for Girls, she soon became a cinema star. Her career was cut short, however, by her social activism, which brought her into the sites of the Hollywood black list during the McCarthy era, despite the patriotism she demonstrated working for the USO during WWII. But that never stopped her. Hunt continued working on behalf of social causes with the UN, and was honored with the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award, as well as the Horace Mann School Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Achievement. She also returned to film and TV, performing last in 2008. The author of The Way We Wore, she is now the subject of a documentary by filmmaker Roger Memos, with appearances by Hunt’s friends, including Harry Belafonte. Learn more at http://www.hollywoodandart.com/ zeldacandance.html. 1947 1938 Nils Lindquist is completing a book on the G.I. Bill of Rights. It’s his second book for the Veterans History Project, American Folk Life Center, Library of Congress. Dr. Melvin Hershkowitz’ essay “Acronymic Adventures of an Octogenarian” was published in the April 2009 issue of Medicine-Health/ Rhode Island. Donald Jonas wrote in Spring 2010: “I just returned April 14th with Barbara from a two-week trip to California. (Seeing) My first great-grandson, who was born on February 24, 2010, was a highlight for us. He lives in Petaluma, CA with his parents and was named Bodie Jonas Greenwald. Hopefully, some day, he will be Horace Mann material. The last four-and-a-half years have been extremely productive for me and I urge you to look up www.jonascenter.org if you are interested in an update. All in all, we are losing too many of our classmates and each time I read about it, I get a lump in my throat. Why is it that when we were in high school, we did not mix better with others outside of our own set group? I have asked this question to myself many times; I did lose some wonderful people that I wish I had known better. My best to all my classmates.” In his Class Note Donald had also written that he had lunch in LA “with our old classmate, Warren Meyers, who still… is playing a wicked piano.” Sadly, Warren Meyers has since passed away. (see Memorials p. 61) We extend condolences. 1948 Lowell P. Beveridge, Jr. (Pete) recently published a memoir Domestic Diversity and Other Subversive Activities. (see Bookshelf p. 46) Writes Pete: “I write about my experience as a campus radical at Horace Mann and Class correspondent Irwin Spiegel sent the following news about his classmates, collected from the beginning of 2010 through July 2010. “At the start of another year, Carol and I are back in the cool (sometimes cold) breezes of Florida. For a change of pace, we spent two weeks in Chile and Argentina, where the weather wasn’t that much warmer. Back in Delray Beach, we’re still waiting for temperatures in the 70s. Now to news of classmates in South Florida: As usual, I arranged another reunion lunch for those classmates in and around the Delray Beach area. Those breaking bread included: Richard Asher, Richard Greene, Dick Kleid, Bob Leder, Marv Rubin, myself, and special guest Dick Mendelsohn who flew down from Wilmington, DE to join in the festivities. Due to previous commitments, Andy Taub, Mitch Rosenheim and Jay Tischenkel were unable to attend. During lunch I learned that Dick Kleid, after a hectic campaign, was re-elected to the Palm Beach town council… Dick Greene was taking an adult ed course to sharpen his photographic skills… and Bob Leder had been visiting family in North Carolina… In case you missed it, Mitch Rosenheim received a nice write-up in the Spring 2010 HM alumni magazine on his volunteer work with the National Wildlife Refuge. It’s publicity well-deserved… Before returning north, had a delightful lunch with Eileen and Steve Finestone. They are fulltime residents of Vero Beach… Back in New York, I spoke with Roger Langsdorf who said he’s looking forward to the next class reunion… Also spoke with Neil Littmann, who is still gainfully employed with Smith Barney CitiGroup although now working from home… Gene Linett reports that his family is well. Still showing his sense of humor, he also suggested I call whenever I need “uninteresting information.”… That’s about it for the Horace Mann Magazine Fall/Winter 2010-11 51 http://www.Horacemann.org http://www.Horacemann.org http://www.domesticdiversity.com http://www.jonascenter.org http://www.hollywoodandart.com/zeldacandance.html http://www.hollywoodandart.com/zeldacandance.html

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Horace Mann Magazine - Fall/Winter 2010-11

Horace Mann Magazine - Fall/Winter 2010-11
Contents
Letters
Greetings from Dr. Tom Kelly, Horace Mann School Head of School
Greetings From Melissa Parento, Horace Mann School Director of Development
Horace Mann School Today
Dr. Tom Kelly Looks Back, and Forward, with Appreciation
Patricia Zuroski Launches New Diversity Initiative
Marcia Levy is New Head of Nursery Division
News of the School
Alumni Council Corner
Bookshelf
Class Notes
Memorials
Philanthropy and You

Horace Mann Magazine - Fall/Winter 2010-11