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The Alumni Record of Western Reserve Academy • Fall 2006

R.W. “Johnny” Apple1934 - 2006

H. ARTHUR BELLOWS JR. ’56 STEPS DOWN AS BOARD OF TRUSTEES PRESIDENT - PAGE 14

Mark R. Tercek ’75, PresidentIrvington, N.Y.

Stephan W. Cole ’66, Vice PresidentJupiter, Fla.

R. Mark Hamlin Jr. ’74, Vice PresidentAkron, Ohio

David M. Hunter ’68, Vice PresidentSilver Lake, Ohio

Olin J. Heestand Jr. ’62, TreasurerChicago, Ill.

Fred A. Cummings ’85, Assistant TreasurerMoreland Hills, Ohio

Timothy R. Warner ’69, SecretaryMenlo Park, Calif

Hamilton S. Amer ’69 Akron, Ohio

Daniel W. Christman ’61 Alexandria, Va.

Kathryn Irene Clark ’76 Ann Arbor, Mich.

H. Andrew Decker ’72 Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.

Stephen W. DeWitt ’84 Hillsboro, Calif.

Ruth Swetland EppigShaker Heights, Ohio

Dagmar F. Fellowes ’75 Pepper Pike, Ohio

John M. Fowler ’67 Bronxville, N.Y.

Ronald M. Harrington ’87 Hudson, Ohio

Peter S. Hellman ’68 Hunting Valley, Ohio

Robert T. Michael ’60 Chicago, Ill.

Andrew R. Midler ’79 St. Thomas, U.S. VirginIslands

Joy P. MurdoughHudson, Ohio

Richard W. NeuHudson, Ohio

Katie Ong-Landini ’83 Shaker Heights, Ohio

Gregory Pennington ’71 Lithonia, Ga.

R. Lawrence RothNew York, N.Y.

Jason Wortendyke ’94 Chicago, Ill.

SPECIAL TRUSTEES

Gary Stevens, Dads Club PresidentHudson, Ohio

Henry E. Flanagan Jr.,HeadmasterHudson, Ohio

Nicholas A. Gallucci ’03,College TrusteeAkron, Ohio

Angela Gotthardt, Pioneer Women PresidentHudson, Ohio

Charles E. Mullins ’65,Alumni Association PresidentOlney, Md.

TRUSTEE EMERITI

H. Arthur Bellows Jr. ’56Greenwich, Conn.

Jefferson W. Keener, Jr. ’50 Akron, Ohio

T. Dixon Long ’51 San Anselmo, Calif

John D. OngHudson, Ohio

David W. Swetland ’34 Alna, Maine

David Warshawsky ’51 Cleveland Heights, Ohio

David H. Wilson ’38 Portland, Ore.

2006-2007 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

William H. Durham ’67, Co-chairPalo Alto, Calif.

Anne Campbell Goodman ’84,

Co-chairCleveland Heights, Ohio

Lauren M. Anderson ’97 Studio City, Calif.

Thomas E. Dunne ’84 New York City, N.Y.

Susan J. Grant ’84 Lafayette, Colo.

Margaret H. Green ’92 Kansas City, Mo.

Christian F. Gulker ’69 Menlo Park, Calif.

Theodore S. Gup ’68 Pepper Pike, Ohio

John P. Hewko ’75 Washington, D.C.

Amy Kikue Iwano ’80 Chicago, Ill.

John G. Kirk ’56 Santa Barbara, Calif.

Dale G. Kramer ’70 Broadview Heights, Ohio

Cecily Pryce Maguire ’78 New York, N.Y.

Anne C. Manganaro ’75 Potomac, Md.

Julie T. Miran ’78 Pottstown, Pa.

Stephen E. Myers ’61 Hudson, Ohio

Ford J. Nicholson ’73 Dellwood, Minn.

Robert G. Perry ’86 University Heights, Ohio

Melvin Rhodren ’72 Arlington, Va.

Richard L. Rundell ’76 Belmont, Mass.

Paul T. Schumacher ’84 Canton, Ohio

Richard A. Shorr ’73 Newtown Square, Pa.

Jennifer A. Soros ’88 New York, N.Y.

Bruce G. Stevenson ’74 Wilton, Conn.

Shannah Tharp-Taylor ’91 Pittsburgh, Pa.

Cynthia Van Osdol ’77 Chicago, Ill.

Mark J. Welshimer ’69 Bronxville, N.Y.

Brooke Sterne Whittemore ’86

Hartford, Conn.

Mark H. Wiedenmann ’69 Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif.

2006-2007 BOARD OF VISITORS

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On the Cover:Legendary NewYork Times writerR.W. “Johnny”Apple passesaway at age 71.His classmate,JamesGramentine,shares somememories on Page 8.

ReserveAn Asset to ReserveH. Arthur Bellows Jr. ’56 steps downas Board of Trustees president.

The Artist’s TouchAlumni use a variety of mediums toexpress their creativity.

Aging GracefullyFrom its humble beginnings, the boyssoccer team has grown into a power.

Nearing the EndThe Campaign for Reserve nears theend of a successful fundraising effort.

Reunion 2006Take a look back at a fun-filledweekend of laughter and memories.

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Departments

Along Brick RowSenior’s paper publishedin Concord Review.

Old ReserveEarly coeds were trueReserve pioneers.

Alumni AssociationNewsDavid Hunter ’68 earnsAlumni AssociationAward.

Class Notes

In Memoriam

Inside

Alumni & DevelopmentNews

Alumni Association News

CoverPHOTO COURTESY OF KENTUCKY AUTHOR FORUM PRESENTS

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Aglass vessel created byWestern Reserve Academy artinstructor Tom Armbruster

has been included in New GlassReview, a survey of 100 images pub-lished each spring by the CorningMuseum of Glass.

The Corning Museum of Glassannually invites artists, craftspeople,designers and architects worldwide to

submit slideimages ofnew worksusing glass.This year,the museumreceivedmore than2,400 entriesfrom 39countries.Armbruster’sentryemployedthe pate deverre glasscasting tech-

nique and was one of 100 pieces rep-resenting 20 countries chosen by ajury of curators, artists, designers, artdealers and critics.

Honored to be included in NewGlass Review for the third time in 20years, Armbruster explains, “Iallowed myself to try to convey in thevessel form a number of influences,in particular African sculpture andnon-western art. It’s about form anddynamic.”

Armbruster created the largeglass vessel in his home studio, an1850 restored one-room schoolhousein Hudson where he and his wife,Pat, reside.

“I am a traditional studio artist. Iprefer to work alone in the quiet ofmy studio. My glass vessel work

reflects a very obscure path of investi-gation that I have allowed myself tofollow. I have been trying to express adynamic of form relationships andlight within the vessel format.”

According to Corning Museumjuror and artist Joel Philip Myers,Armbruster achieved his objective. “Iapplaud the search for new structuresin the vessel genre,” Myers notes inhis evaluation of the glass work. Headds, “Light penetrating the variedwall thicknesses makes the pieceglow with life.”

Of late, Armbruster is developinga series of glass sculptures that arenot vessels. Instead, they are tallpieces that have been carefully carvedby a sandblaster with imagery influ-enced by stone formations and earlyarchitecture garnered from his travelsto Ireland.

A 3-D art instructor at Reservesince 1983, the accomplished artistshares his approach to teaching: “I tryto be helpful with students by sharingmy knowledge and love for makingart, while allowing them to developtheir own ideas, to take risks andbecome self-critical.”

His students generally begin byworking with plaster, clay sculptures,pottery, wood, metal and plastics.Advanced students may also workwith stone and wood carving, steel andcopper fabricating, fabric dying, jewel-ry and advanced ceramic techniques.

In addition to his recent honor,Armbruster has been a recipient of aNational Endowment for the ArtsCraftsman’s Fellowship and threeOhio Arts Council Individual ArtistFellowships. His works can be foundin the Corning Museum of Glass, theJames A. Michener Collection at KentState University and The CorporateCollection of the Goodyear Tire &Rubber Co.

Art teacher recognized for glass workGlass vessel created

by Tom Armbruster included

in New Glass Review.

Tom Armbruster used the pate de verreglass casting technique to create his glassvessels.

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.

“I applaud thesearch for newstructures in thevessel genre.Light penetratingthe varied wallthicknesses makesthe piece glowwith life.”Joel Philip MyersCorning Museum

juror

Art teacher Tom Armbruster’s glass vessel was one of100 pieces selected from 2,400 entries worldwide to beincluded in New Glass Review.

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National Book Award winner Kevin Boyle, a profes-sor of history at Ohio State University, has beenselected 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 WRAdormitories 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 ina selected field.

An authority on 20th-century American history, with anemphasis on class, race and politics, Boyle received the2004 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 thatoccurred in Boyle’s hometown of Detroit. When OssianSweet, a black physician, moved with his family into awhite neighborhood, violence erupted and one person waskilled. Famed attorney Clarence Darrow defended Sweet ina dramatic trial that ended in his acquittal, and which high-lighted the early fight against housing segregation and theright of blacks to protect their property. Arc of Justice alsowon several other awards and was a finalist for the PulitzerPrize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

“Kevin Boyle makes history personal and exciting forhis audience,” commented WRA history teacher SarahHorgan, who also chairs Reserve’s senior seminar pro-gram. “His boyish exuberance and obvious passion for hissubject draw you in and make it impossible for his audi-ence not to become equally engaged in the topic. Heseems to love a good question-and-answer session and soshould be an ideal Knight Fellow. I’m thrilled to have himhere on campus.”

Boyle earned his bachelor’s degree from the Universityof Detroit and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.He is also the author of The UAW and the Heyday of

American Liberalism, 1945-1968 and Muddy Boots andRagged Aprons: Images of Working-Class Detroit, 1900-1930. His articles, essays and reviews have appeared innumerous journals, anthologies and newspapers. He hasheld fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, theFulbright Commission, the National Endowment for theHumanities, the American Council of Learned Societiesand the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

OSU history professor

named Knight Fellow

Photo courtesy of The Ohio State University - Photo ServicesNational Book Award winner Kevin Boyle will be on campus in

February as this year’s Knight Fellow.

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Eleven members of the Class of2007 were recognized this fallby the 52nd annual National

Merit Scholarship Program for theiroutstanding results on the 2005Preliminary SAT/National MeritScholarship Qualifying Test(PSAT/NMSQT). More than 1.4 mil-lion juniors in nearly 21,000 highschools entered the 2007 competition.

Six seniors were named semifi-nalists of the program, with an oppor-

tunity to continue in the competitionfor Merit Scholarship awards: CeciliaChen, Amanda Daniels, MelanieKenney, Maeve McMahon, TamaraMovsesova and Stephen Weingold.As semifinalists, these six studentswill vie with approximately 16,000other semifinalists nationwide formore than 8,000 scholarship awards,worth $33 million.

In addition, five seniors wererecognized as commended students

in the National Merit programbecause of their high scores on thePSAT/NMSQT: Jordan Bilich,Jennifer D’Auria, Elizabeth Foster,John-Alex Shoaff and Erica Walker.

Scholarship awards through theprogram are underwritten by theNational Merit ScholarshipCorporation’s own funds as well asthose of 500 business organizations,colleges and universities. Less thanone percent of all U.S. high schoolseniors are named National Meritsemifinalists; finalists will beannounced in February.

Eleven earn National Merit recognition

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For a few days in early July, theReserve campus was a focalpoint for lacrosse fans world-

wide. With the 2006 ILF WarriorWorld Lacrosse Championship sched-uled for London, Ont., Canada, July13-22, the English national team

made Reserveits training andpractice head-quarters. Inaddition,ReserveHeadmasterHenry “Skip”Flanagan Jr.served as acoach for theBritish team,which finishedfifth among the21 national

teams that competed in the ILFChampionship series.

The British team’s visit toHudson and Flanagan’s role as one ofits coaches began to take shape threeyears ago at the NCAA lacrosse con-vention.

“Ritchie Moran, a former Cornellcoach now involved in internationalplay, introduced me to the Englishcoaching staff and suggested that Iwould be a good candidate to jointhem,” Flanagan explained. “In thesummer of 2005, I was invited toEngland and named as an assistantcoach for this year’s games in Canada.”

Flanagan then began thinking thatHudson would be a good trainingvenue for the team, given its relativeproximity to London, Ont.

“I thought it would be good forEngland to come to the U.S. heartlandand see a town like Hudson,” he said.“As it turns out, we had great supportfrom a number of host families here,and from the town merchants and ourprincipal sponsors, Midwest Lacrossein Columbus and Joe Boxer.”

English coach and teamspokesman Ravi “Baggie” Sitlani wasimpressed by his visit to Hudson andthe Reserve campus. “The facilitieswere amazing and the (host) families

were fantastic,” he said.While in Hudson, the team played

three exhibition games in preparationfor the world competition. One wasagainst the Ohio College All-Stars, ateam that featured four Reserve alum-ni, including Jason Griffith ’03,Anthony Glass ’04, Matt Scheel ’04and Max Cutchin ’05.

The ILF Warrior World LacrosseChampionship is that sport’s equiva-lent to soccer’s World Cup, accordingto Sitlani. It is played every fouryears, with the previous two tourna-ments being held in Perth, Australia,and Baltimore. Sitlani said that theEnglish team, which had been togeth-er for about 18 months, included 23players and six reserves ranging inage from 16 to 28.

The honor of coaching the Englishteam is just one of several feathers in

Flanagan’s lacrosse cap. He has beenrecognized by U.S. Lacrosse, thenational governing body of men’s andwomen’s lacrosse, for earning his200th career victory. His record at thesecondary school level is 252-34. The2005-06 Reserve team that he coachedfinished 19th in the nation, as rankedby the magazine Inside Lacrosse.Flanagan also has been named to theOhio Chapter of The Lacrosse Hall ofFame and to the Avon Old FarmsSchool Hall of Fame in Connecticut.He previously coached at Avon OldFarms and at The Peddie School afterbeginning his coaching career atPrinceton University.

Flanagan is proud that Englandcame to Reserve for its training, andnotes that it was a mutually beneficialexperience.

“We were pleased to provide ourgreat facilities to the team, and at thesame time, we have been truly hon-ored to have an international team oncampus,” he said. “The visibility forthe Academy was quite positive andwe gained national publicity throughInside Lacrosse magazine.”

English lacrosse team trains at Reserve

Headmaster Henry Flanagan Jr. helped coach the English national lacrosse team whenthey trained at Reserve over the summer.

“The facilities were amazingand the (host) families werefantastic.”

Ravi “Baggie” SitlaniEnglish coach


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Reserve senior Jennifer D’Auriagot some good news this fall:The day before classes began at

WRA, D’Auria learned that a paper shehad submitted to The Concord Reviewhad been accepted for publication.

Originally entitled Cessation ofHostilities: The ControversiesSurrounding the Channel Tunnel, thepaper had initially been an assign-

ment for her sopho-more history class,Shaping WorldSociety.

“Jen is an excel-lent example of hardwork combiningwith native intelli-gence to produce anoutstanding result,”said Jim Bunting,history department

chair. “She worked incessantly torevise and polish her paper, and weare all very proud of her accomplish-ment.”

D’Auria’s paper is the first by aReserve student to be accepted for pub-lication in The Concord Review. It wasincluded in the Fall 2006 edition of thequarterly publication under the titleChannel Tunnel, along with the worksof 10 other high school students.

“Jennifer D’Auria’s paper on thehistory of the Channel tunnel waswelcome for her research, her writingand for her offering a paper which Ibelieved would be of interest to ourreaders around the world,” noted WillFitzhugh, editor and founder of theReview. “We publish about eight per-cent of the papers we receive.”

D’Auria’s paper focused on theeconomical, political and social fac-tors that hindered the construction ofthe Channel tunnel years before itsactual completion. “I contrasted thesereasons against building the Chunnelwith explanations for why it waseventually built,” she explained.

The idea for the paper, she said,came from television’s HistoryChannel. “After watching the History

Channel’s Modern Marvel series onthe Channel tunnel, I was fascinatedthat humans could make such a tun-nel,” she added. “Wanting to knowmore about its construction, I lookedonline and found that the Chunnel’sconstruction was not just an engineer-ing wonder: it overcame much oppo-sition to be built. I then realized thatthe Channel tunnel could be a greatresearch paper topic.”

In 2005, D’Auria’s paper tookfirst place in the world history catego-ry of Reserve’s own coveted historywriting contest, an annual competi-tion that was established and fundedin 2003 by an anonymous donor. Thebest of those award-winning papers,according to Bunting, are then con-sidered for submission to TheConcord Review.

D’Auria’s reaction to the goodnews can be summed up in threewords: “I was ecstatic!” she said.“When I began my paper for SWSclass, I had not planned on submittingit to WRA’s history writing contest, letalone The Concord Review. Up untilthat point, the longest paper I had everwritten was five pages.” In contrast,Concord Review selections average5,500 words – well over 20 pages.

“The success of this paper is dueto much more than the fact thatJennifer is a very bright youngwoman,” commented DanaCunningham, a member of Reserve’shistory department and D’Auria’sSWS teacher. “We have many ofthose here at WRA. What sets herapart was her willingness to writedraft after draft, happily taking sug-gestions from Jim (Bunting) and meabout how to make the paper better.She is a remarkable young womanand is proof of the value of hardwork. Other students have the abilityto do what she did. Her discipline anddesire are exceptional.”

Despite her keen interest in history,D’Auria says she plans to major inmathematics or chemistry in college andhopes to become a hand or eye surgeon.

Senior’s paper appears

in Concord ReviewO

n Sept. 22, Oliver Everett’62 made a return visit tothe Reserve campus to

offer a brief history lesson aboutthe madness – or lack thereof –of King George III.

A former English-SpeakingUnion student who spent the1961-62 academic year at

Reserve,Everett islibrarian emer-itus to QueenElizabeth II.As royal librar-ian, he wasresponsible forthe care andmaintenance ofthe extensiveroyal collec-tion of books

and manuscripts at WindsorCastle. Over the years Everetthas maintained his ties withAmerica and with WRA; hisson, Will, was himself an ESUstudent in 2001-02, and Everettspoke at Reserve’s 2002 com-mencement exercises.

In his Chapel presentation tothe Reserve community, Everettdrew on his encyclopedic memo-ry of British history, people anddates, and in particular the reignof George III. His mission, hetold students, was to correct twomisperceptions of the monarchwho presided over the loss of theAmerican colonies. Sprinkling hispresentation with humor, Everettoffered evidence that the kingwas not mad – rather, he was alover of books and a patron of thearts. Everett also maintained thatGeorge III was indeed a friend ofAmerica, one who would havepreferred a political solution tothe conflict between England andthe colonies.

An extensive slide collectionof artworks from the royal col-lection illustrated Everett’s pointsand bolstered his assertions.

Royal archivist

visits Reserve

Jennifer D’Auria

Oliver Everett


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University of AkronAlfred UniversityAmherst CollegeUniversity of the ArtsAshland University (2)Bates CollegeBentley CollegeBishop’s University (Canada)Boston University (2)University of British ColumbiaCanisius CollegeCarnegie Mellon University (3)Case Western Reserve UniversityCollege of Charleston (2)University of CincinnatiThe CitadelClaremont-McKenna CollegeClark UniversityClemson University (2)Colgate UniversityCornell University (2)Davidson CollegeDePaul University (2)Dickinson CollageDigiPen Institute of TechDuke University (2)Eckerd CollegeUniversity of Edinburgh (U.K.)

Embry-Riddle UniversityFranklin and Marshall CollegeFranklin College (Switz)George Washington UniversityGeorgetown UniversityGettysburg College Harvard UniversityHarvey Mudd CollegeIndiana UniversityKenyon College (2)Lafayette College (2)Lehigh UniversityLewis & Clark CollegeMacalester CollegeUniv. of Maryland-Baltimore CountyMiami University (5)University of MiamiUniversity of MichiganMiddlebury College (2)New York University (2)Northwestern UniversityUniversity of Notre DameOberlin CollegeOccidental CollegeOhio State University – HonorsOhio Wesleyan University (5)University of Pennsylvania (2)Purdue University (3)

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

Class of 2006College 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.


Editor’s note: Jim Gramentine ’52wrote the following story about the lifeof his classmate, R.W. “Johnny”Apple Jr.

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Since his death on Oct. 4 due tocomplications from thoracic can-cer, there has been an unprece-

dented outpouring of tributes aboutthe life and career of John RaymondW. Apple ’52. In an obituary the nextday, Adam Bernstein wrote for TheWashington Post, “Mr. Apple madeprolific, aggressive and erudite cover-age his signature.” Todd Purdum, aprotégé, observed in his obit, “Mr.Apple enjoyed a career like no otherin the modern era of The Times.”

Johnny had considerable experi-ence as a journalist before he joinedThe Times in 1963. He had served as acopy boy for The Akron BeaconJournal when 19. He had slaved forThe Daily Princetonian while neglect-ing his studies and was eventually sus-pended. He was a reporter for TheWall Street Journal in the early daysof the civil rights movement, wrote fora general as well as The NewportNews Daily Press while serving in theU.S. Army, and then did distinguishedwork for NBC News and the Huntley-Brinkley Report, earning an Emmy forhis civil rights reporting.

That said, we all know thatJohnny Apple first became addicted tojournalism at the feet of JiggsReardon in the basement of SeymourHall. There, after considerable butwell-deserved abuse, he rose to editorof Hardscrabble and sports editor ofthe weekly Reserve Record. He didnot make chief editor, for that posi-

tion was Michael Woloch’s our senioryear. “Johnny was not a manager,”more than one professional colleaguewould later declare, and really he didnot care to be.

To understand the profound influ-ence Franklyn Reardon had on Apple,one should read Johnny’s own essay,Jiggs, in Without Reserve, available inhardback from the Academy book-store. While at it, also read in the samebook Mike Costello’s delightful essay,Three of the Best, about Reardon,Elinor Roundy and Sam Husat but alsoabout Calvin Trillin and Apple.

A UNIQUE CAREER

The first article Johnny Apple

ever wrote for The Times was granteda byline and began on Page 1, accord-ing to A. M. Rosenthal, then the met-ropolitan editor. By the end of hisfirst year, 72 additional articles wouldbegin on Page 1 under the R. W.Apple Jr. byline. That is an average ofone every five days. Is that the record,one wonders? What was the total bythe time his career ended 44 yearslater? For that matter, has Johnny’scareer ended even now? A bylinedarticle appeared on Page 1 of the trav-el section on Oct. 22, 2006.

During those 44 years, Johnnyheld numerous posts with The Times,writing on countless subjects from

R.W. Apple Jr. ’52 remembered for his appetite for journalism

Photo courtesy of Kentucky Author Forum PresentsR.W. “Johnny” Apple, who passed away Oct. 4, enjoyed a career like no other in themodern era of The New York Times.

Globe-trotter for The New York Times had a career like no other


more than 100 countries. “His bestwere 1,200-word tapestries of history,erudition and style,” observedPurdum; “the worst were clear andconcise but reflected conventionalwisdom that sometimes provedwrong.” No doubt Apple observers allhave their favorite memories of hismost impressive reporting. Mine areof his analytical essays, called Q-heads in the trade, from early 1999,about the Senate’s trial of theimpeached President Clinton.Impartial, explaining history and lawas much as current politics, and care-fully crafted, they helped to relieve anembarrassed nation and place eventsin perspective.

Johnny’s first assignment as abureau chief was to Albany, N.Y.,

after two years with The Times; hislast to Washington, D.C., from 1992-97. In between he held that office inSaigon, Lagos, Nairobi, Moscow andLondon. The latter was his favorite,enjoyed from 1977 to 1985. I mayhave missed a couple of others, butwherever he may have been anadministrator, he was primarily awriter and a reporter. Among othertitles held along the way were chiefWashington correspondent, chief cor-respondent and associate editor, andsurely there were more.

R. W. Apple Jr. may not have wona Pulitzer, but he was the fourthAcademy graduate to win a WaringPrize, in 1976. Besides the Emmy, healso earned the George Polk Awardand the Overseas Press Club Award

for his reporting in Vietnam. His accomplishments were many,

but it now seems appropriate to pro-vide the reader with some examplesof Johnny’s writing and insight.Under the heading, Vietnam: TheSigns of Stalemate, as early as Aug. 7,1967, he wrote:

And yet, in the opinion of mostdisinterested observers, the war is notgoing well. Victory is not close athand. It may be beyond reach. It isclearly unlikely in the next year oreven the next two years, andAmerican officers talk somberly aboutfighting here for decades.

In a Chapel talk to the assembledreunion classes in June 1997, Johnnyoffered an observation about Bill

Photo courtesy of The New York Times/ReduxR.W. “Johnny” Apple was a singular presence at The New York Times almost from the moment he joined the metropolitan staff in1963. Apple, wearing his Reserve school tie, left, and Joseph Lelyveld, who later became executive editor, at work in the newsroomof The Times in 1965.


Clinton. Mind you, this was monthsbefore we or he had any hint ofMonicagate.

What you need to remember . . .is that all his life Bill Clinton hasbelieved that he could talk his wayinto or out of any situation. And hehas almost always been right. . . . Hehas very little discipline.

And in The Times on Sept. 11,2001:

Today’s devastating and astonish-ingly well-coordinated attacks on theWorld Trade Center towers in NewYork and on the Pentagon outside ofWashington plunged the nation into awarlike struggle against an enemy thatwill be hard to identify with certaintyand hard to punish with precision.

The whole nation – to a degreethe whole world – shook as hijackedairliners plunged into buildings thatsymbolize the financial and militarymight of the United States. The senseof security and self-confidence thatAmericans take as their birthrightsuffered a grievous blow, from whichrecovery will be slow. . . .

Scenes of chaos and destructionevocative of the nightmare world ofHieronymus Bosch, with smoke anddebris blotting out the sun, were car-ried by television into homes andworkplaces across the nation.

Space does not permit our doingjustice to Johnny’s wonderful secondcareer – or was it his fifth? – as afood and wine critic, world travelerand bon vivant, the career in which“my wife, Betsey” has figured soprominently. His two books, Apple’sEurope (1987) and Apple’s America(2005), are important byproducts.Many of us have enjoyed and profitedfrom this second career. As colleagueAdam Nagourney stated so well, “Heloved it all. And best of all, he wantedothers to love it just as much.”

TH E ACADEMY YEARS

Johnny Apple’s parents, like thoseof most of his classmates, enrolledhim at the Academy in 1948 in orderto enhance his “seriousness of pur-pose.” They did not succeed.

Though he and I had been born atthe same Akron hospital 53 days apart,we did not meet until standing in the

Academy’s registration line on Day 1.Both still 13, with cracking voices, wewere signed up for dancing class byour mothers before we had evenacknowledged each other’s existence.

Years later Johnny would occa-sionally imply that he had overcomemodest German roots in a small third-world city located in a remote MiddleAmerica akin to Siberia, but to me hewas at 13 already the epitome ofurbane sophistication. “Seed” was theinstant moniker bestowed on him bychurlish classmates. It derived notfrom any hint of backwardness butrather sprang from the combination ofhis name and Ohio (the land ofJohnny Appleseed).

Apple was an instant star at danc-

ing class – the girls loved him – but aconstant source of frustration for theall-male faculty. Impulsive, he waspossessed of boundless energy.Nonetheless it is fair to call him aclassic underachiever, even though hewould finish comfortably in the tophalf of our class. His SAT verbalscore would have been off the charts,had there been charts in 1948.

The Academy in those daysemployed a demerit system with theobjective of inhibiting the socialbehavior of its denizens. It alsorequired all freshmen to take half-credit Industrial Arts. To this day, R.W. Apple Jr. is the only student in theannals to have ever received three cir-cled (inexcusable) tenths (demerits)for GBWOC. Posted on the publicbulletin board in Seymour Hall, thiswas instantly deciphered by us asGoosing Boy With Oil Can.

Arne Ballonoff, who had not seenJohnny since graduation, speaks formany of us when he candidly admits,“Guess I felt a little more importantbecause I had brushed elbows withhim at Reserve.” Robert Fay, now aprofessor of English at LandmarkCollege, likewise had not encounteredApple since 1952 but was moved bypress descriptions in early October:“These were accounts of the sameindependent, high-profile, creative,expressive individual whom I had

“Apple...was the best politi-cal reporter of his era. Hewas also the best food writer,the best wine writer, the besttravel writer and the bestarchitecture critic, and hecould have been the best gar-den and sports writer if hehad wanted to be. I know allthis because he told me so.He was probably right.”

Richard Holbrooke, Oct. 6, 2006

Photo courtesy of Kentucky Author Forum PresentsR.W. “Johnny” Apple is interviewed by author and former NBC News anchor TomBrokaw in July on Kentucky Author Forum Presents.


known and admired at WRA.” “The image of Seed I remember

best,” writes John Byrns, “is his argu-ing politics incessantly with JiggsReardon. My memory places him onthe conservative side and Jiggs the lib-eral, which seems odd given hisemployment at the Grey Lady.” JohnMickel agrees and points out, “Hereally was quite fond of Jiggs and eventhen 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 hisquiet, authoritative presence, butJohnny really held his own andenjoyed it immensely. Words were hisfriend even then, and he used themwith relish.”

“In sophomore English class,”recalls Sidney Buchanan, “we hadbeen assigned a reading in theOdyssey. Fred Waring asked, ‘Well,

what do you think of Circe?’ Applereplied, ‘She’s neat!’ and Waring shotback, ‘She’s neat says Johnny Apple.And why?’ For once in his life, Applehad no worthy response.”

In the spring of that same yearJim Irwin, Johnny and two othersspent a weekend with Bill Martin athis home in Lancaster. Irwin recallsthat after a large dinner and anuneventful evening, “Apple led anattack on the kitchen refrigerator, con-suming everything in sight, while Iabstained from the action. Bill’s par-ents repeatedly pointed out the dan-gers of excessive consumption, partic-ularly by Apple, and cited me as anexample worthy of emulation. By 3a.m. there were indeed loud moansand groans, as well as evidence ofacute digestive distress. There on thefloor lay the victim in his own vomit,but he was not Apple. Rather it was I,soon to be delivered by ambulance tothe community hospital for an emer-

gency appendectomy.”The administration had assigned

Johnny and John Detjens, perhaps themost upright member of our class, orat least the one with the highest meritscore, to room together that year forobvious reasons. On what was per-haps the only other weekend Johnnywas granted in 1950, he invitedDetjens to his Akron home and waspermitted to take out the family’slight blue Pontiac. “After drivingaround for a while Saturday evening,Johnny disconnected two of the car’ssix sparkplugs to determine if the carwould make it on partial power up

Photo courtesy of Tony Cenicola/The New York Times/ReduxR.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. andBarnum & Bailey Circus.

“Mr. Apple made prolific,aggressive and erudite cover-age his signature.”

Adam Bernstein, The Washington Post


one of Akron’s steep hills. We wentpinging and sputtering up the hilluntil John was satisfied with theresults of his experiment. He wascurious about everything and willingto try nearly anything to satisfy thatcuriosity.”

A TRUE LEGEND

Following his own distinguishedcareer in journalism, Kit Kincade ’58recently referred to Apple as a “leg-end in his own time,” includingJohnny’s schoolboy career as well ashis adulthood. As day students, “wepaid special attention to those aheadwho broke the rules spectacularly andsuccessfully. I can recall sitting in TheRecord office listening to Jiggs pro-vide his embellishments on the devel-oping legend,” including Apple’s get-ting a job with The Wall StreetJournal after having been bounced fora second time from Princeton.

It would be interesting to know ifJohnny consciously was influenced byany of the famous sports writers of the1950s. To us at least he seemed tohave a distinctive style of his own bysenior year. We are indebted to JimDonley for sending in some examples:

Sweeping through a spiritless andoutmanned University School teamwith a pulverizing ground and airattack, the Pioneers last Saturdaywrote a thrilling finis to the season,32-6, before a crowd that includedvirtually the entire student body.

When Sid Buchanan spoke for thesoccer team at Friday night’s rally, hesaid that every member of the teamwould fight his hardest at Cranbrook.Sid did.

Mike McCally, one of Johnny’sbest friends then and to the end,recalls, “He was a sports stringer forarea newspapers before most of usknew what a stringer was. He hadeverything short of the fedora with apress card in its band.” He also pointsout that while we all know ofFranklyn Reardon’s influence, “Johnloved history and came to admire PaulRoundy . . . instilling an Anglophiliathat served John well when he headedThe Times’ London bureau.” He citesMax LaBorde, Fred Waring and BillMoos as influential as well.

Though he himself did not attendPrinceton, Rich Weston ’64 did someinteresting sleuthing a while ago onThe Daily Princetonian’s website. ByNovember of 1955 Apple already per-ceptively linked local politics tonational, though his Reserve ties(Stretch had a Republican brother whoran for mayor of Philadelphia) mayhave influenced this article as well:

The Longstreth-Dilworth race isconsidered the most important battlefrom a national point of view by mostpoliticians. Since President Eisenhower

endorsed Longstreth, a Philadelphiaad-man, as “his kind of candidate,”GOP leaders are hopeful that he willbe able to upset Dilworth. But the oddsare against him. Longstreth, besidesbeing saddled with a corruptRepublican record, has failed to makea dent in the Negro vote, which isexpected to swing the victory toDilworth. A Longstreth win would be avictory of major proportions.

An account of another scoop fromPrinceton has been provided byJohnny’s good friend, Bill Martin:

Illustration courtesy of Gerald ScarfeThis illustration of R.W. “Johnny” Apple accompanied a 2003 profile in The NewYorker written by his friend Calvin Trillin.


“Johnny’s interest in journalismwas focused and encouraged by Jiggs,but his career was launched atPrinceton. He was on duty at TheDaily Princetonian on the night (April18) in 1955 when Albert Einstein, thenon the faculty at the Institute forAdvanced Studies, died. Johnny’s cov-erage scooped the world. His bylinefrom Princeton appeared in newspa-pers all over the country. If there hadbeen any doubt that Johnny would be– in fact, was – a journalist, therenever would be again.”

John Krogness commented thatour classmate would have enjoyedthis year’s midterm elections andthat we would all have greatly bene-fited from his analysis. Notablethough his knowledge of politicswas, “of more lasting import was hisvast literacy about the human condi-tion and his gift in conveying its rel-evance to the reader.”

Not joining our class until junioryear, Doug Creelman did not knowJohnny as well as some of us. “Hewas living right across the hall and bythen was, well . . . Apple. Fullyformed and going – somewhere –already. At our 50th reunion heexpressed a bit of an interest in mebecause I lived in Toronto; he said hewould like to see Jane Jacobs againand would look us up. He never gotthe chance. Jacobs died, but I stillremained anxious that he mightappear and I would need to take himout to dinner – a daunting prospect.”Too bad for Doug. He would havelearned, as had many classmates, thatApple always picked up the tab, ormore accurately, perhaps, The NewYork Times did.

Johnny’s roommate senior yearwas Jim Taylor. Think of it: a class sosmall (Depression born) that two sen-iors were assigned to each three-roomsuite in North Hall. John and Jimremained good friends, the latterreceiving a telegram from Saigon onthe 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 alltimes he was enthusiastic, generous,and never dull.”

To appreciate the story that fol-lows, it is helpful to know that during

senior year our classmates ceasedusing the nickname Scotch had givenme, Groaner, preferring one influencedby the ethnic derivation of several ofmy Cleveland wrestling opponents aswell as by my own supposed ancestry.

In 2000, Johnny was to deliver theprincipal commencement address atMarquette University as well as receiveyet another honorary degree. Since theuniversity is only 12 miles from ourhome, he kindly arranged for my wifeand me to be invited to the ceremonyand also to the president’s luncheon inJohn’s honor that followed. He spokebrilliantly as always and was especiallywell received by the undergraduates.

President Robert A. Wild and twoother Jesuit priests happened to be inthe same elevator that my wife and Itook to reach the president’s diningroom at the top of the student center.We introduced ourselves as we begana somewhat stilted conversation in thefoyer. Other dignitaries graduallygathered and, at length, Appleemerged from his dressing room. Isaw him osmosing down the hall, andthen he spotted me. At a distance ofperhaps 50 feet he exclaimed at thetop of his lungs, “GRAMENWOPPO!HOW THE HELL ARE YOU?” Mywife, Sarah, gave me a look thatclearly 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 inrecent years, has been one of his clos-est friends from the class. Shortly afterhis first chemotherapy session, about ayear ago, John told him, “Sidley, I ambending, but I am not going to break,”borrowing a phrase from yesteryear’sCleveland Browns. During the monthsthat followed, Sid checked up on himfrequently, and often that resolve wasrepeated. But the last time, five daysbefore his death, he said, “Sidley, I ambreaking. Goodbye.”

Michael McCally too was fre-quently in touch with Johnny duringhis illness. A distinguished physician,he helped to assure that Apple was inthe best of hands and assisted in manyother ways, including eventually thehardest counseling of all. I saw Mikeafter Johnny’s death and asked aboutdescribing him as the “consultingphysician,” but he firmly insisted,“No, I was just a friend.”

Be that as it may, I understandfrom Sid that Betsey Apple hasreferred to Mike more than once as a“Prince of a Man.” Friend, however,will do. It’s what we were, for 58years and counting.

R.W. “Johnny” Apple questions the accuracy of German teacher HarrisonKitzmiller’s watch at breakfast during the fall of 1950.

In June, H. Arthur Bellows Jr. ’56stepped down after eight years aspresident of Reserve’s Board of

Trustees. A member of the board formore than 25 years, Bellows was hon-ored at a luncheon on June 9 on theMorgan Hall terrace, surrounded by agroup of 50 friends and fellow boardmembers, past and present.

Bellows’ tenure on the board, andin particular his time as president,have been years of significant growthfor the Academy. Over the past eightyears, he has helped guide severalmajor campus construction projects –the Ong Library, Murdough AthleticCenter, Metcalf Center, Long Houseand Garden House among them – aswell as important renovations toexisting facilities, addressing severalcritical areas of need. He has also ledthe $40 million Campaign forReserve – Share the Vision, thelargest fundraising campaign in theschool’s history. Now entering itsfinal weeks, the campaign hasfocused on five key initiatives: facultysupport, residential life, athletic facili-ties, scholarships and technology.

At the retirement luncheon inJune, Headmaster Henry Flanagan Jr.paid tribute to Bellows’ many years ofservice. “I have had the good fortuneof knowing and working with ArtBellows for over two decades,”Flanagan said. “Most recently, that

relationship became even more pro-nounced as he led the Academy byway of his position as president of theboard. It has been my longstandingbelief that when there exists mutualtrust and respect between the head ofschool and the board president, manygood results evolve and the institutionflourishes. One needs only to considerthe Academy today to know the valid-ity of these thoughts.”

Also paying tribute were severalemeritus members of the board – partof a group affectionately known as

Bellows ’56 ends long tenureon Board of Trustees

Reserve saw significantgrowth, successful campaign

under his leadership.

Former board President John Ong(above) and emeritus Trustee JeffersonKeener Jr. ’50 (right) share memories oftheir time with H. Arthur Bellows ’56(seated) during a retirement luncheonfor Bellows at Morgan Hall.


“Art has been an absolutely amazing performer. He has been omni-present. Thisgentleman has topped it all, with a $40 million campaign coming to a close, duemuch to his leadership.”

John Ong, former board president


Retiring board President H.Arthur Bellows ’56 shares alaugh with his guests, includingAngela Gotthardt, PioneerWomen president, during aretirement luncheon held in hishonor at Morgan Hall.


“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 representwell over 100 years of service to the Academy.

“Art has been an absolutely amazing performer,”said Ong, himself a former Reserve board president. “Hehas been omni-present.” Referring to the ongoingCampaign for Reserve, he added, “This gentleman hastopped it all, with a $40 million campaign coming to aclose, due much to his leadership.”

“We’ve had wonderful times together,” reflected Long,who served on the board for nearly 30 years. “Makingdecisions with this wonderful band of brothers has beenvery rewarding.”

“He’s always faced problems as they came up openly,and he’s worked closely with the board,” commentedKeener, who retired from the board last year after nearlyfour decades of service. “Art, you’ve made one great bigdifference here.”

“Reserve had a significant and very positive impact onme during my four years as a student – challenging meacademically, stimulating and fostering a love of learning,shaping my values and elevating my personal goals,”reflected Bellows. “Therefore, it has been very special andpersonally rewarding to have had the opportunity to workwith trustees, the headmaster and the faculty in an effort tomake this fine school even better.”

In Bellows’ view, his most important accomplish-ment as board president has been the success of TheCampaign for Reserve. “Working with fellow trustees,the headmaster, key faculty and administrative personnel

to develop, define and select the initiatives that providedthe rationale for Share the Vision has been truly reward-ing,” he commented, “and along with the honorarychairs, vice chairs and members of the SteeringCommittee, meeting the $40 million goal.”

Throughout his tenure, Bellows has maintained thatReserve should aspire to be nothing less than the preemi-nent college preparatory boarding school in the country.“We should strive to be the best, as measured by our aca-demic, extracurricular and residential programs,” he said,“not prompted by competition with other boardingschools, but by the objective of delivering the best educa-tional program in the country to shape the lives and valuesof our students.”

Bellows points to several concrete accomplish-

Headmaster Henry Flanagan Jr. and board President H. ArthurBellows lead the Class of 2006 at Commencement.

John Frank, president of The Burton D. Morgan Foundation,Headmaster Henry Flanagan Jr. and H. Arthur Bellows ’56 atthe dedication of Burton D. Morgan Hall in 2004.

“He’s always faced problems as they came up openly. Art, you’ve made one greatbig difference here.”

Jefferson Keener Jr. ’50, trustee emeritus


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 tomeet that goal. Among them is theformation of the Admissions andFinancial Aid Committee, whichassists the Admission Office inattracting the best qualified stu-dents, “aided by the establishmentof the first merit scholarship pro-gram in the school’s history,”Bellows notes. A second trusteecommittee, the College PlacementCommittee, has assisted the CollegeGuidance Office in enhancingopportunities for graduating stu-dents by providing additional fund-ing and staffing.

Another important step, Bellowsasserts, has been the adoption of“metrics” to measure and trackprogress in assessing improvement inthe performance of all of the school’s

departments and activities. “These areimportant tools,” he says.

Looking back, Bellows alsoreflects with pride on his proposal tothe board, in 1986, for establishingwhat is now known as the Board ofVisitors, “to provide an alumni per-spective on issues and policies beingevaluated by the Board of Trustees.”

Looking ahead, Bellows plansto stay involved at the Academy asa trustee emeritus, offering assis-tance as requested. Currently heremains chair of The Campaign forReserve: “We expect to have a ‘vic-tory celebration’ early next year,”he added, “when we will officiallyend the campaign and announcefinal results publicly.”

Bellows also continues to serve asa director of two public companies

and two private ones, and as chair ofthe board of governors of theUniversity Cottage Club, a privateeating club serving Princeton studentsand alumni. In addition, he remains aboard member of Princeton’sGraduate Interclub Council. An avidskier, squash player and golfer,Bellows says he is “still working” onimproving his skills in all three. He isalso a keen reader of history, biogra-phies and international politics. Heand his wife of 38 years, Jody, areresidents of Greenwich, Conn.; thecouple has four adult children –Maffitt, Alex, Hillary and Jennifer.

Flanagan echoed many within theschool community when he commented,“Art has left an indelible imprint onReserve… and we are that muchstronger and more vital as a result.”

“Reserve had a significant and very positive impact on me during my four years asa student – challenging me academically, stimulating and fostering a love oflearning, shaping my values and elevating my personal goals.”

H. Arthur Bellows ’56


Mark Tercek ’75 has beennamed the new president ofReserve’s Board of Trustees,

succeeding H. Arthur Bellows Jr. ’56,who retired from the board in June afterserving as president for eight years.

“I believe the Trustees have madean excellent choice in electing Mark

as presidentof theboard,”commentedBellows,noting thatTercek hasbeen aTrusteesince 1999,co-chair ofthe invest-ment com-mittee and amember ofthe execu-tive, educa-

tion & planning and nominating com-mittees, as well as part of the steeringcommittee for The Campaign forReserve. “Mark brings a thoroughunderstanding of the issues and theopportunities facing the school and areputation for strategic focus andsound judgment among his fellowtrustees. I am confident that he willhave a very positive impact on theschool in the years ahead and I wishhim and Reserve all the best.”

“I’ve had the good fortune towork closely with John Ong, DavidWarshawsky ’51 and most recentlyArt Bellows,” said Headmaster HenryFlanagan Jr. “There is every reason tobelieve that Mark Tercek will contin-ue that tradition of excellence. Markbrings goodwill, vision, patience andcommon sense to this critical post.”

Tercek also brings considerable

experience.He is cur-rently amanagingdirector andhead of theoffice ofcorporatecitizenshipforGoldmanSachs, theworld’sleadinginvestmentbank. He isalso theexecutive

director of Goldman Sachs’ Center forEnvironmental Markets. Since joiningthe firm in 1984, he has headed someof its most important departments,including consumer/healthcare, equitycapital markets, corporate finance andreal estate. He also headed GoldmanSachs’ worldwide transportationgroup, co-headed the firm’s corporatefinance department in Tokyo, and wasone of the senior bankers who led thefirm’s early investment banking ini-tiatives in Asia.

He is also a professor in thefinance department of New YorkUniversity’s Stern School ofBusiness. In addition, Tercek has saton several corporate and non-profitboards. In September he steppeddown as chairman of the board ofLiteracy Partners, choosing to con-centrate his efforts on his role asReserve’s board president. He hasalso served on several other boards,including the Leader-to-LeaderInstitute, the Urban Land Institute,Rockefeller Center REIT and theRouse Company. An honors graduateof Williams College, Tercek earned an

MBA with distinction from Harvard. “Mark Tercek will continue the tra-

dition of strong and compassionate lead-ership which has benefited the board formany generations of presidents,” saidtrustee R. Mark Hamlin Jr. ’74, whochairs the board’s nominating commit-tee. “At the same time, he has somewonderful ideas and will challengeevery one of us to take it up a notch.”

Citing the Academy’s manystrengths, Tercek is enthusiastic aboutReserve’s future. “The school is ingreat shape,” he said. “Obviously, thephysical plant is in extraordinaryshape – anyone who hasn’t visited thecampus lately really should. There arethose who have asked if all the recentbuilding is really necessary. In myopinion, it is long overdue. We’venow caught up in a powerful way andcan provide an extraordinary educa-tional experience to our students.”

Another significant asset, Tercekmaintains, is Reserve’s financialstrength. “We’re about to close on a$40 million campaign – that is also apowerful accomplishment,” hereflected. “Alumni and friends shouldbe proud of where the school stands.”

Also vitally important, of course,are the people. “I’m privileged to be

Tercek ’75 named presidentof Board of Trustees

Mark Tercek ’75 says hislove for Reserve led himto take on the position ofpresident of the Board ofTrustees.

“I love the school.I went to threegreat schools –Reserve, Williamsand Harvard – andI’m loyal to allthree, but Reservehas been the mostimportant in mylife.”

Mark Tercek ’75, Board president

“Mark Tercek will continuethe tradition of strong andcompassionate leadershipwhich has benefited the boardfor many generations of presidents. At the same time,he has some wonderful ideasand will challenge every oneof us to take it up a notch.”

R. Mark Hamlin Jr. ’74, Trustee


working with an excellent Board ofTrustees, and the school is very wellserved by the Board of Visitors and theAlumni Association Board, as well,”Tercek said. “The headmaster, the facul-ty and administration, the students, par-ents and alumni – these are amongReserve’s strongest assets. Certainlythere are challenges ahead. Costs con-tinue to rise, and we’ll have to workhard to continue to get the best students.But I’m confident that this school willmeet those challenges head on.”

Why take on such a labor-intensiverole? “I love the school,” Tercek sayssimply. “I went to three great schools –Reserve, Williams and Harvard – andI’m loyal to all three, but Reserve hasbeen 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 greatboard and I like working with them.And I’m ambitious for the school; I’dlike to see Reserve become even better.”

He sees the board’s role, he says,primarily as one of oversight. “We setthe strategic direction for the school,and make sure the day-to-day activi-ties address this,” he says. “We alsowant 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 Boardof Visitors and Alumni AssociationBoard, as well as the Board ofTrustees, are valuable groups thatmake a real difference to this school.”

Tercek’s ties to Northeast Ohiorun deep. He grew up in Clevelandand was once a newspaper deliveryboy for The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer.A scholarship allowed him to attendReserve, one of four Tercek brothersto graduate from the Academy. He andhis wife, Amy Stark Tercek ’75, weremarried in the Reserve Chapel 20years ago. The Terceks live inIrvington, N.Y., with their four chil-dren: Alison, Margo, Luke and Rex.

Despite the distance, Tercek says heplans to be a “hands-on” board presi-dent. With local family ties – his motheris a longtime Hudson resident – hemakes frequent visits to Ohio, and helooks forward to serving the school inhis new role. “It’s a great honor for meto work with my fellow trustees in lead-ing the Academy forward,” he added.

In addition to naming Mark Tercek ’75 president, Western ReserveAcademy’s Board of Trustees welcomed two new members for the2006-07 year.Jason Wortendyke ’94 is currently a director at UBS

Investment Bank, based in Chicago. He has beeninvolved 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 FirstBoston, where he began his career in 1998.

He is a graduate of Princeton University, where hemajored in economics and East Asian studies. He hasacted as head of Midwest fundraising for his Princetonclass for major reunions, and is a member of thePrinceton Young Alumni Board.

Prior to be named a Trustee, Wortendyke served on Reserve’s Boardof Visitors. He and his wife, Marina Birch, live in Chicago with their twodogs.

Ron Harrington ’87 is president and CEO of Edgepark Surgical – anational distributor of disposable medical products.

He is a 1991 graduate of Kenyon College, where heearned a bachelor’s degree in political science. Aftercollege he moved to Washington, D.C., to join a healthcare company as a regional sales manager. In 1993 hereturned to Cleveland to join the family business atEdgepark Surgical.

Harrington and his wife, Lydia Eppig ’97, live inHudson. His favorite hobbies include long-distance run-ning, fly fishing and spending time with Buddy andBella – 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. Heis responsible for representing the chamber before for-eign business leaders and government officials, and forproviding strategic leadership on international issuesaffecting the business community.

Christman served for five years as superintendent ofthe U.S. Military Academy. Prior to that, he served twoyears as assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs ofStaff, during which time he traveled with and advisedSecretary of State Warren Christopher.

He lives in Alexandria, Va., withhis wife, Susan.

Dr. Gregory Pennington ’71 is currently a seniorconsultant and corporate psychologist with RHRInternational in Atlanta.

He is a 1975 graduate of Harvard University andearned his doctorate from the University of NorthCarolina in 1994. He is a former member of Reserve’sBoard of Visitors.

Pennington and his wife, Kristy, reside in Lithonia,Ga., with their daughter, Kalin, and son, Kyle.

Trustees welcome new members

Pennington

Christman

Wortendyke

Harrington


T he word “artist,” in the contextof the visual arts, can conjureup all kinds of images –

painters, sculptors and illustrators, forexample. One might envision suchgreat artists as Rembrandt, Picasso,Rodin and Calder, while others thinkof the “starving artists” pitched ontelevision (sofa-sized paintings only$39!). But one thing is clear – bothcreating art and appreciating it arehighly personal experiences. Oneartist’s talent is another’s frustration.What is great art to some is viewed asfit only to line the bottom of a birdcage to others.

Over the years, a number ofReserve alumni have become accom-plished artists. Many of them seem tohave inherited their talent from simi-larly successful family members. Butthey also needed inspiration and moti-vation to recognize and develop theirtalent. Often, that inspiration andmotivation came while they were atReserve, from the likes of Bill Moos,Alan Doe, Peggy Kwong Gordon,Tom Armbruster and others who havebeen a part of the art department fac-ulty. In a few cases, their artisticskills blossomed a bit later in life.

The Alumni Record recentlycaught up with seven alumni fromvarious eras who are now profession-al artists. Their media are as varied astheir styles and subjects. Their worksreflect their physical environments,their life experiences, or their per-

spective on the socio-economic stateof the world. What they have in com-mon, however, is that they are allcommercially successful or are rapid-ly becoming so. They also add a newdimension to an increasingly diversebody of Reserve alumni careers.

STEPHEN WHITE ’57

F orty years ago, StephenWhite needed a light fixturefor his home. But rather than

going to his local lighting emporium,he decided to build one – out of paperand wood. Shortly thereafter, he madeand installed a second one in theHudson home built by his parents.The fixture still hangs there, alongwith two others, all appreciated dailyby the home’s current owners, retiredReserve teachers Bob and VeliaPryce. Several more lights followed,created for friends at a craft gallery inthe Hudson area. Today he is stillbuilding light fixtures out of paperand wood. They are quite functional,to be sure, but more than that they aretrue one-of-a-kind artistic creations.

Following his graduation fromCarnegie Institute of Technology witha degree in architecture, White volun-teered for the Air Force and complet-ed officer’s training. His goal was tobe an Air Force architect, but he wasassigned maintenance and repairduties instead. Time spent in the bar-ren land above the Arctic Circle inAlaska gave White the inspiration to

ExpressionArtistic

continue his light sculpture work.There, he created a collection of 18lanterns, which he displayed in anAnchorage gallery.

“They were a mixture of rectilin-ear, curvilinear and angular shapesranging from 14 inches in diameter toseven feet tall,” White recalls. “I used

much morecolor withthose piecesthan I donow. Theywere basical-ly white, butcoloredpapers ingeometric orvaguely rep-resentationalshapes wereincorporated

into the many layers of their translu-cent paper skins.”

Following his Air Force dis-charge, White planned a two-weekvacation in Hawaii. He stayed sixyears. While there, he continued tocreate with light and also pursued anarchitectural apprenticeship. Overtime, he came to realize that lightsculpture was more satisfying thanarchitecture. As in Alaska, hisHawaiian works were inspired by thenatural beauty of his surroundings.

White moved to Oregon in 1986and now lives in Eugene, where he

ALUMNI FIND A VARIETY OF WAYS

TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES

“Originality iswhat keeps megoing. I wouldhave quit longago if I had tomake the sameones over andover again.”

Stephen White ’57


works in his home studio. He esti-mates that he has created about 2,000fixtures over the last 40 years. All arecrafted by laminating a dozen or morethin layers of high-quality tissue ontowooden frames with white glue. Hiscurrent frame material of choice isbasket reed, but he has also usedwood shade material and other typesof wood, depending on the size andtype of fixture. Only for rare limitededitions does he ever create two alike.“Originality is what keeps me going,”White says. “I would have quit longago if I had to make the same onesover and over again.” Sometimes hisdesigns are inspired by nature; manyresemble sea shells. At other times, hesays that the materials themselvesinspire a design. Depending on size, afixture can take about 50 hours tocomplete. He currently has a backlogof orders of three to four months.

White’s work is displayed on theLuminessence pages ofcorriecroft.com and at retail galleriesin Washington, Oregon, Californiaand Texas, and at trade galleries inTexas, California and Hawaii. “Muchof my work is custom-ordered,”White says. “It is not unusual for meto visit a home and consult with theowners on design.” He adds thatmarkets for his lights shift from time

to time. “Los Angeles is my hottestmarket right now. It was Seattle, andthere was a good market in Hawaiiwhen I lived there.”

In spite of his regional focus,White’s sculptures have attractednational recognition. They have beenfeatured in a variety of magazines,including House and Garden and theSeptember 2006 issue of CoastalLiving.

JOHN GEOGHEGAN ’60

J ohn Geoghegan is one of thoseanonymous artists with a bodyof work that has been seen by

millions, fully appreciated by few andtaken for granted by most. He is also

an artist with anoth-er body of work thathas been seen bymany fewer, isgreatly appreciatedby those who knowgood art, and cer-tainly is not takenfor granted by thosewho exhibit or buyit.

Geoghegan graduated from theUniversity of Cincinnati with a degreein graphic design. He has had a variedcareer 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 storeshelves, in TV commercials and incorporate annual reports – unsigned,and as noted, likely taken for grantedby most people. At the moment, he isdoing brand development work forthe cigar industry – and is as likely todirect a conversation to the subject ofgood cigars as he is to his own fineart work. He currently resides inThousand Oaks, Calif.

For many artists, Geogheganincluded, talent seems to be an inher-ited trait. Geoghegan’s mother was anaccomplished painter and ceramicist.He recalls that his own compulsion todraw began when he was about 5years old with elaborate panoramicwar scenes. His wife, Lin, is also anartist, hand-stitching quilts and craft-

ing jewelry. Now a third generation ofGeoghegans is involved with art, asall three of their sons, as Johnexplains, “have some artistic talent,and one is a digital effects editor inHollywood.”

Throughout, Geoghegan has beenand is a painter. Today, he works pri-marily in acrylic, pastels and watercolors. He describes his work as“impressionistic.”

“I paint light, landscapes and stilllifes,” he explains. “Some are actualscenes, others are made up. Overtime, my work has become more

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.

John Geoghegan’s Malaga Cove Showeris part of his collection of landscapepaintings.


abstract.” He has had one-man showsin Connecticut, Ohio and SouthernCalifornia. When he lived in the LosAngeles area, he was a member of thePalos Verdes Art Center Co-op, andnow exhibits his work at a gallery inRolling Hills, Calif.

While some artists may considerwhat they do to be work, Geoghegancertainly does not. “You never retire

from paintingand creatingart,” he says.“You neverstop. It is notwork. I willbe doing thisuntil I nolonger can.”

Geoghegan attended Reserve dur-ing the Bill Moos and Paul Roundyera, and he has come to appreciateboth of them more and more as theyears have passed. He adds thatanother great thing about Reserve isthat the school offered a course inPhilosophy and Religion, taught byheadmaster John Hallowell.

Speaking of his art education,Geoghegan says, “Moos taught us tosee things not just visually, but to blendreality with what you wish somethingto be. He stressed that first, you have tounderstand what something is in reality,and only then can you make it intowhat you want it to be.”

Those lessons, Geoghegan notes,are still with him, even though hegraduated from Reserve 47 years ago.

PHIL WILLIAMS ’60

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 beena frequent contributor to Highlights,that fanciful and colorful monthlypublication that has delighted childrenfor 60 years. His specialty is the mag-azine’s “Thinking Page.” He also cre-ates illustrations for many otherdiverse clients such as McGraw-Hill(textbooks) and Outback Steakhouse(product promotion posters).

That Williams is an artist is not asurprise to anyone who knows himand his maternal family history.“There are many fine artists in myfamily background,” he explains,

adding that they are descendants ofthe Irish patriot Robert Emmet. Theirwork, primarily portraits and land-scapes, dates back to 1854.

“Because of this background, I wasinterested in art long before I came toReserve,” Williams says. “Then, BillMoos was my Reserve inspiration. Itwas under him that I began to grasp thefundamentals of art.”

Williams’ intent upon enrollingas an undergraduate at theUniversity of Pennsylvania was tostudy architecture, but he discoveredupon arrival that the program hadbecome available only to graduatestudents. “I would have had to spendfour years in a liberal arts programhad I stayed there,” he adds. “So Imoved to the Pennsylvania Academyof the Fine Arts.”

With an education from thatvenerable institution (CharlesWilson Peale and William Rushwere the co-founders in 1805), can itbe assumed that Williams immedi-ately launched a successful career asan artist? Not exactly. In 1967, hewent to work for an experimentalschool in Philadelphia, where hehandled its media requirements andbecame interested in sound as anartistic medium. Following thatexperience, Williams began to travel

the world, doing sound recording for“all kinds of films,” ranging frommainstream movies to theatrical per-formances to commercials for theU.S. Army. One project was aJimmy Carter presidential campaignfilm.Eventually,he estab-lished hisown soundrecordingstudio in

Philadelphia, building what he calls“a huge sound effects library.”

As technology began to develop,Williams became increasingly fasci-nated with computers, leading to hisnext career stop as a freelance com-puter programmer for small business-es. In this era, a failed attempt as aninventor caused him to “lose every-thing” financially, but not his fascina-tion with computers.

“By the early ’90s, computersstarted to show promise as a visual artsmedium, so I morphed into graphicarts and website design,” he explains.By the end of the decade, Williams’

Phil Williams’ illustrations are “digitally hand-painted” with the help of two laptopcomputers. He comes from a family of artists whose work dates back to 1854.

“Bill Moos wasmy Reserve inspi-ration. It wasunder him that Ibegan to graspthe fundamentalsof art.”Phil Williams ’60

“You never retirefrom painting andcreating art. It isnot work.”

John Geoghegan ’60


current career as an illustrator wasbecoming well established, thanks inpart, 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 hishome in the Philadelphia Main Linesuburb of Narberth, where he liveswith his wife, Margareta, and 14-year-old daughter, Hanna. His olderdaughter, Sarah Bay Williams, worksfor the Academy of Motion PictureArts and Sciences in Los Angeles andalso has recently developed an inter-est in painting, he reports.

Williams’ work can be seen atwww.eyewoo.com. In addition to hisillustrations for Highlights magazine,the site also features general illustra-tions, portraits, photography and linksto other related websites.

MARIO TRIPP ’80

C entral to Mario Tripp’s art isthe theme that all livingthings are connected. The

majority of his work focuses onhuman subjects, with an emphasis

on indigenous peo-ple. His goal is toillustrate commonbonds among suchpeople. Hedescribes his styleas a spiritual mix ofrealism and impres-sionism. “Anyonewho looks at my artcan connect to it,”

Tripp believes.Tripp came to Reserve in his

sophomore year from Cleveland, andplans to return to Cleveland fromCalifornia, where he currently livesand works, in the near future. But hisinterest in art developed long beforehe was of high school age. “Art camenaturally to me,” he says. “Even whenI was 4 years old, I had exceptionalskills in illustration. Then I was ‘dis-covered’ by my sixth grade teacher.”

His talent began to blossom atReserve. In particular, he creditsPeggy Kwong Gordon, who taughtat Reserve from 1973 to 1985, withhelping him to mature as an artist.His work earned him a one-manshow on campus, and Tripp believeshe is the first student ever accorded

such an honor.While art may have come easily

to Tripp, life itself was a bit tougherto manage in those younger years. Hisfather died when he was 17, he mar-ried young, and for family reasons, heleft college after one semester. Hetried variouscareers, butby 1988,Tripp says,he made thedecision tobe an artist.By 1991, hewas becom-ing commer-cially suc-cessful. “Atthat time, Igot intosome com-mercialwork,” he says. “I did whatever Icould do. I had the ability to work inalmost any medium – acrylics, pas-tels, illustration and others. In 2001, Iwas 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, Trippexplains, refers to an African bird ofmyththat is depicted in stories to teach the importance of retrospect.

Tripp has since returned to theExpo, and during the 2005 event, hewas the featured artist on Cleveland’sFox 8 morning news. He also hasexhibited at the Art Walk Clevelandand with Artrain USA, an art museumhoused in vintage rail cars that bringsworld class exhibitions and art educa-tion programs to communities acrossthe country.

In spite of his talent as a multi-media artist, Tripp admits that for along time, he had “a fear of paint.”

“I stuck to illustration until 1993when I did my first painting. That iswhen I began to understand the con-cept,” he says. “Now, I paint in myhead all the time. When I work, I aminfluenced 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 thedifference between an artist and apainter. “As an artist, I am verymeticulous about detail,” he stresses.“I consider the painting as a whole,including the negative space aroundmy primary subject.”

He credits Reserve’s Gordon withhelping him to understand the conceptof dealing with “negative space,”which he describes as having been areal revelation.

“Also, I do not get caught up inpainting just what I think will sell. Inkeeping with the concept of Sankofa,artists have a responsibility to createhistorical records, just as primitivepeople did in their cave drawings.”

While Tripp is trying to move awayfrom exhibiting his work on the Internet,some is featured at absolutearts.com andat myspace.com/mariotripp. He is cur-rently working on a series of paintingsof eagles he hopes to display in theMoos Gallery.

KINGSLEY ANDERSON ’89

L ike so many artists, KingsleyAnderson has followed along and winding road to his

current primary profession as a webdesigner. That road began in hishometown, the Cleveland suburb ofShaker Heights, headed southwestthrough Hudson (WRA) andDelaware, Ohio (Ohio Wesleyan),then turned back southeast to western

“In keeping withthe concept ofSankofa, artistshave a responsi-bility to createhistorical records,just as primitivepeople did intheir cave draw-ings.”

Mario Tripp ’80

Mario Tripp’s Native Elder emphasizesindigenous people and the commonbonds among people.


Africa (Peace Corps), next to NewOrleans (Tulane University) andeventually, to Albuquerque, N.M.,where he currently lives and works.

Anderson’s artistic claim to fameis as a sculptor, and it is clear that hiseducation, other professional interestsand travels have influenced his work.But to better understand how that allfits together, one must rewind the tapeto the fall of 1986, when he started atReserve as a sophomore.

“I come from an artistic family,”Anderson says, “but my art was great-ly influenced by (Reserve fine artsmaster) Tom Armbruster. I took both

two-dimen-sional and 3-D art, andTom showedme how towork, but didnot direct mystyle. I dis-covered that2-D art didnot interestme. I gotinto stonecarving andkinetic art.Having theMoosGallery at

the Knight Fine Arts Center gave mea chance to set up shows.”

Anderson also credits his Reserveadvisor, math teacher HowardKaplan, with helping him to marry artand math.

At Ohio Wesleyan, Andersonmajored in anthropology and sociolo-gy and minored in philosophy. But healso spent a lot of time in the school’ssculpture studio, where his art profes-sor gave him the same creativelicense that Reserve’s Armbruster did.

“In spite of my sculpture,”Anderson recalls, “cultural anthropol-ogy was my calling. That led me tothe Peace Corps and Western Africain the 1994-96 timeframe, and theremy interest in public health began toevolve. When I returned home, I wentto Tulane to get my master’s degreein health administration. From there, Iused my math skills to begin analyz-ing health databases, and that led tomy interest in website development.”

So, what happened to sculpture inthe meantime? “I still do it,”Anderson says, “but I have sloweddown a bit. I have set up studio spaceat home. My work reflects my interestin anthropology.”

Of course, having lived inAlbuquerque since 1999, Andersonsays his work is also influenced byNew Mexico culture and by SantaFe’s vibrant and renowned art com-munity.

As you might have gathered bynow, Anderson is never happy unlesshe is also evolving and reinventinghimself. At the moment, he is trans-forming his Anderson Studio andGallery into a new business model.What was an actual physical galleryin Albuquerque, which opened inMarch 2005, is now an e-galleryonly. It features his sculpture, to besure. But it also showcases the jew-elry made by his wife, Shana Lane-Anderson, and the fiber art of hermother, Gretchen Lane.

In the meantime, KingsleyAnderson devotes the bulk of histime to web design and supports thewebsites of other galleries. He alsodesigned an art events calendar forThe Collector’s Guide, a NewMexico 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 orweekly routine,” he says flatly. “I getbursts of energy and creativity.Sculpture is intense. To do it, I haveto isolate myself and turn inward forinspiration.”

To see the products of that inspira-tion, visit andersonstudiogallery.com.

ELIZABETH FRASER ’89

A n apple a day may keep thedoctor away, but a paintinga day keeps Elizabeth

Fraser ’89 busy. Fraser is, by her owndescription, “an expressive landscapepainter, using bright colors and boldbrushstrokes.” 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 andSpanish, her intent was to become alanguage teacher. She in fact did spendfour years teaching in Virginia andNew Jersey. It was during her NewJersey years that her brother, Michael’93, inspired her to change direction.

“Michael had spent a year at the

Kingsley Anderson and his wife, Shana Lane-Anderson, display some of the masks hecreates and the jewelry she designs in their studio. The mask to his left, Tlingit Vision,is also on Page 20.

“I cannot get intoa daily or weeklyroutine. I getbursts of energyand creativity.Sculpture isintense. To do it, Ihave to isolatemyself and turninward for inspi-ration.”

KingsleyAnderson ’89


Cleveland Institute of Art, and hisexperience inspired me to paint,”Fraser explains. “It was truly life-changing. It has been great to followmy heart and do what I love. Paintinghas become my life.”

Living on the Maine coast inPortland for the last seven years hasalso provided Fraser with inspiration.“I live two blocks from an ocean hill-side, so every day I see sunrises,boats and lighthouses,” she says. “Iam also inspired by Maine’s rich arthistory – Rockwell Kent, MarsdenHartley and other impressionists.People have told me that some of myearlier works look like Van Gogh.”

Fraser is a self-taught painter.When her interest developed, brotherMichael and her dad, Reserve lan-guage master Jim Fraser, teamed upin 1995 to get her what she needed toget started. Like many evolvingartists, her style has changed overtime, she notes, and her paintingsoften reflect her moods.

But what about this “8 Days aWeek” goal she set for herself?

“Eight days a week I complete asmall square oil painting on paper andpost 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 andare for sale on e-bay in five-day auc-tions, with bids starting at $60.”

Of course when pressed on thesubject, Fraser admits that her weeks– like everyone else’s – have sevendays, and that one day each week, sheposts two paintings on the blog. Sheadds that meeting this goal has been achallenge, but that she relies on themany photographs she takes to keepher work fresh and inspiring. Her “8Days a Week” project also earned hera mention in an Aug. 31 New YorkTimes article entitled Everyday

Scenes, Painted Every Day.Fraser does not rely only on e-bay

to sell her works. She also sells at herin-home studio, at a frame shopwhere she works, at a nearby jewelrystore and at fresh paint auctions. “Afresh paint auction,” she explains, “isliterally that. You paint on location,

Elizabeth, left, and Michael Fraser work on landscape paintings at the Country Club of Hudson. The siblings sometimes work atfresh paint auctions, where they paint on site and auction off their work immediately. Below, Elizabeth works in her studio.

“It has been great to followmy heart and do what I love.Painting has become mylife.”

Elizabeth Fraser ’89


and your work is then immediatelyauctioned off.” While she is primari-ly an oil painter, Fraser also doessome woodblock prints and pastelsand expresses a desire to try etching.

Even while living some distancefrom Hudson, Fraser is no stranger toReserve. She and Michael both exhib-ited their work in the Moos Galleryduring Reunion 2006, and her paint-ing of the Chapel and North Hallgraces the cover of Without Reserve,the book of alumni essays publishedlast year.

With her “8 Days a Week” goalon its way to being met, what isFraser aiming to achieve next? “Myreal goal right now is to make a solidliving,” she says candidly. “I amworking in the frame shop for thehealth insurance and to make endsmeet. But I want to become self-suffi-cient so I can spend all of my timepainting.”

MICHAEL FRASER ’93

M ichael Fraser, the first ofthe two Fraser offspringto become an artist,

describes his style as a cross betweenimpressionism and realism. His mediaare oils and watercolors. His subjectsprimarily are landscapes.

“I knew relatively early in lifethat I was drawn to art,” Fraser says,“but I had no inkling that I would

become a profes-sional artist. Whenwe were growingup, we did not havea television set, so Iwould amusemyself by painting.But my career inter-est was more in thefield of architec-ture. I started paint-

ing seriously while I was at Reserve,where Mr. (Alan) Doe was a biginfluence on me.”

Following his graduation fromReserve, Fraser enrolled for one yearat the Cleveland Institute of Art, butleft because, he says, “I did not seewhere it would get me anywhere, andbecause I did not want the debt Iwould have after completing a five-year program there.”

Fraser describes his early, post-

CIA paintingstyle as“impression-istic,” featur-ing heavypaint andexaggeratedcolors.“Now,” hesays, “I ammuch morerefined. Mystyle is moredisciplinedwith moreattention todetail. I didnot reallyhave controlover thischange instyle. It was

more of a natural evolution.”Today, Fraser lives in South

Portland, Maine, just a short distancefrom his artist sister Elizabeth.“About 75 percent of my subjects areNew England landscapes and I do afew still-lifes,” he explains. Much ofthe time he works from photos, butoccasionally joins Elizabeth at freshpaint auctions, where their works arecreated and sold the same day. Hesells the bulk of his paintings at gal-leries in the Portland area, and a fewat champart.com, the website gallerythat the Fraser siblings share.

“Portland is a great arts commu-nity,” Michael notes. “There are a lotof good little galleries that are lookingfor artists such as myself. There arealso festivals and shows in the areawhere I can exhibit and sell my paint-ings. Although I prefer to work inoils, I actually sell more watercolors.”

Aside from sharing a city, awebsite and love of painting, theFrasers also credit each other withinspiration. “Our styles are differ-ent,” Michael notes. “Elizabeth ismore loose and impressionistic inher style than I am. But we doinspire each other.” And as noted inher story, Elizabeth credits Michaelwith her initial inspiration to be aprofessional artist while she wasteaching in New Jersey.

Actually, time spent in NewJersey also contributed fortuitously

to another aspect of Michael’scareer. “When Elizabeth was teach-ing there, I lived with her for awhile,” he explains. “I got a job inan art gallery, and the owner wasalso an expert at art restoration. Hetaught me the tricks of the trade, andhaving learned those, I am nowdoing some art restoration.”

Fraser explains that art restora-tion includes both cleaning andrepair of paintings, and that it is notsomething that should be undertakenby amateurs. “There are a lot of dif-ferent chemicals that can be used toclean a painting,” he says, “andbefore you start to work, you haveto do some tests to determine whichones will clean the painting withoutdamaging it.”

Like Elizabeth, Fraser also worksin a frame shop to supplement hisother earnings. He also is devotingconsiderable time to his July 2006bride Kimberly and to their “fixer-upper” home in South Portland. “It isa beautiful house,” he says, “and Ilove woodworking and carpentry.”

CARL ORTMAN ’93

Something was missing in CarlOrtman’s life following gradu-ation from Reserve.

“Business education was a strug-gle; college was a joke afterReserve,” he explains. “The teacherswere not as passionate and I was not

motivated.” So atthat point, Ortmanleft his chosen insti-tution of higherlearning andreturned toCleveland where helived with Peter Lin,Jamie Breuker andBen Jones, Reserveclassmates all. He

went to work as a bartender in localnightclubs, but also became interestedin nightclub and restaurant interiordesign. He also resumed his educationat both the Cleveland Institute of Artand Cleveland State University.

But he still craved change,Ortman recalls. “I decided I did notwant to live in Cleveland. I neededmountains. I needed quality of life, soI moved to Phoenix, where I lived for

“I knew relativelyearly in life that Iwas drawn to art,but I had noinkling that Iwould become aprofessionalartist. I startedpainting seriouslywhile I was atReserve, whereMr. (Alan) Doewas a big influ-ence on me.”

Michael Fraser ’93


a year. To buy time, I started workingin real estate and mortgages.” Stillrestless, he moved to ColoradoSprings, Colo., three years ago andstarted a mortgage company there. Healso found a mentor to help himdevelop as a professional artist.

Today, painting is Ortman’s life.His medium is oils. His art career, hesays, is in its infancy. “It takes five to

15 years formost peopleto becomeaccom-plishedartists,” heexplains. “Ihave been atit for oneyear. I needto build a

body of work.” His subjects are primarily people,

whom he paints with “big, bold brushstrokes and splashes of color.” He addsthat when you paint, “you need to getout of the way of the art and paintwhat you feel.” Reserve art teacherAlan Doe encouraged Ortman to dojust that, he says. “Alan said to me,‘Carl, it is not a matter of whether youcan paint, it is a matter of whether youwill. If you are going to paint, paintbig.’”

Ortman adds that Doe’s advicewas a new concept for him. “I alwayspainted detail,” he says. “I did notknow about splashy style, but I start-ed taking classes and it was a processof letting go. The more I did it, themore that came through. I saw that Icould enjoy a certain style. Throughworkshops and mentoring, who I amcame out.”

In a different way, Ortman alsocredits Reserve headmaster HenryFlanagan Jr. for his focus and successtoday. He says he was living inFlorida when he was “discovered” bySkip and encouraged to come toReserve, where, as noted, he fellunder the influence of Doe. “Skiptook me under his wing and intro-duced me to a whole different world.The impact I have had on other peo-ple because of Skip is astronomical.”

In addition to the mentoringOrtman is receiving in ColoradoSprings, he also has traveled to

Carl Ortman’s Midday Cowboy shows his style of “big, bold brush strokes.” ForOrtman, painting means “getting out of the way of the art and painting what you feel.”

“You just neverknow when theperfect scene willlay itself in frontof you for creativeexploitation.”

Carl Ortman ’93

Argentina, where artists there alsoinfluenced his style. To further hisexposure, he approached RichDesigns Gallery in ColoradoSprings, where his work is nowexhibited and sold.

“You need to be in a hometowngallery before you can be accepted inbigger cities,” he explains. “I did ashow in Denver and sold out, andpainted six pieces for an elite builderto display in a home show. I sold allsix pieces. I also did 12 pieces for ashow in Scottsdale in September, and

will have 25 more for a one-manshow there in January.”

Some of Ortman’s work can beseen at richdesignsgallery.com, and atcarlortman.com. In keeping withDoe’s advice, many of his paintingsare big – as big as 36 inches by 48inches. His creative energy alsodrives him to paint quickly.

“Most of my paintings are done inthree days. You just never know whenthe perfect scene will lay itself in frontof you for creative exploitation.”

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Perfect fall weather prevailed andthe Reserve community tookfull advantage, celebrating both

Homecoming and Parents’ Day onOct. 7. The night before, under abeautiful harvest moon, alumni, par-ents and students flocked to theMurdough Athletic Center for theannual Dads Club Giant Family Partyand Auction, which had its largestattendance ever, raising more than$100,000 for Reserve student activi-ties and programs.

The following morning, a cloud-less blue sky, mild temperatures andan early display of fall color greetedboth alumni and parents. Actually,several campus visitors earned bothlabels: more than a handful of alumsreturning for Homecoming 2006 arealso current WRA parents, who spentthe morning following their children’sacademic schedules and meetingteachers in what must have been amoment of déjà vu. It was also déjàvu for veteran faculty masters TomDavis, Chris Breuker and LeeBlankenship. Davis welcomed formerstudent Tracy Hamlin Nolan ’81 backto his English classroom; this year,Davis teaches two of her children,Suzanne ’07 and Tim ’09. Breuker’s“baby bio” presentation was attendedby Wellington “Duke” Reiter ’75,father of Adrian ’10, and Blankenshipwelcomed former students Reiter andRobert Williams ’75, father ofTommy ’07.

All told, 136 alumni registered toattend the weekend’s festivities,which included a Saturday luncheonin the Murdough Athletic Center fol-lowed by a full slate of athletic con-tests. The beautiful weather encour-aged many to stroll from game togame, including a 2-0 victory overarchrival University School, whichdrew a large crowd of fans and for-mer players, as well as former coach-es and faculty members Dale Conly

and Phil Hogarth. The soccer mini-reunion also celebrated 80 years ofReserve soccer and the 1,000th soccergame in school history (See article,). In all, 12 contests werebeing held at venues across the cam-pus: tennis, soccer, volleyball andfield hockey for girls, and footballand soccer for boys.

Refreshments were served, com-pliments of the Pioneer Women, onthe patio of Morgan Hall throughoutthe afternoon, and a post-game recep-tion in the Murdough Athletic Center,

sponsored by the Alumni Association,drew those wishing to prolong a mostmemorable day.

“There was never a dullmoment,” commented Director ofAlumni Relations Ray Murphy ’81.“It seemed to go pretty smoothly,having both events on the sameweekend.”

According to Director of SpecialEvents Greta Rothman, the day wasa tremendous success from everypoint of view. “This was a completeteam effort on the part of the AlumniAssociation, the Dads Club, theAlumni & Development Office, thePioneer Women, Reserve’sExecutive Committee and the GreenKey Society,” she commented.

“And this type of event couldnot be successful without ValRitzert, Scott Sondles, and theirentire kitchen and maintenancestaffs. They did an outstanding job.”

HOMECOMING 2006

A Homecoming crowd cheers on the Pioneer football team during its 17-6 victory overLake Forest Academy. Below, senior tailback Cart Hall carries the ball.

HOMECOMING 2006

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, fromleft, are Sarah Rogers (Maddy’s sister), Steve Rogers ’81 and hiswife, Heidi Henderson. In the front are, from left, Altie andKezia, Steve and Heidi’s daughters.

Seniors Katelyn Lazor(No. 17) and captainKate Hollnagel (No. 13)and the rest of the fieldhockey team delivered a2-1 Homecoming winagainst Shady SideAcademy.

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 Green Key Society helped fire up the students at a bonfirethe night before Homecoming. From left are Chris Galgano ’07,Saimah Haque ’07, John Dionne ’07, Kevin Rattigan ’07,Brittany Droogh ’08, Nick Sell ’07, Kathryn Murphy ’08,Susannah Lu ’07 and Jessica Sindell ’07.

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


In the fall of 1926 the ReserveRecord ran the following story:

There’re No Quitters SaysSoccer Coach

“The thing that impresses me themost is that there is not a quitteramong them,” Homer F. Barnes,English instructor and soccer coach,expressed his feelings thus in regardto the soccer crowd.

Soccer football was started forthe fellows who were not proficient inother sports.

At present Mr. Barnes has pickedno first team and no second team. Hesays that he has not done this becausethe fellows are all new to the game.And the only way for them to learn topass skillfully is to let everyone play.

A soccer team is made up ofeleven men. A goal guard, left, cen-ter and right fullbacks. These are thedefensive men. The offensive menconsist of the right outer, innerright, center, inner left, and outerleft forwards.

Eighty years and 1,000 varsitygames after Homer Barnes firstbegan teaching the finer points

of what the world knows as “thebeautiful game,” the Reserve boyssoccer team celebrated duringHomecoming Weekend with a 2-0win over University School.

It was appropriate that thePioneers marked the anniversaryagainst U.S., as the Preppers were theonly other high school in the area tofield a team in 1926. That first year thetwo teams played each other twice,with U.S. winning the first game 2-1

and the teams battling to a 1-1 tie inthe rematch. The Pioneers played athird game that year, against an alumniteam from Cleveland’s AudubonJunior High School, losing 4-0.

“To say we’ve come a long waysince then is putting it mildly,” saidcurrent coach Herb Haller ’85, a topplayer under longtime WRA coachDale Conly. “In Ohio, teams areranked by student population intothree divisions, with the one we’re inbeing the smallest.

“And though we cull our teamsfrom only about 240 boys, our sched-ule is mostly with teams in the toptwo divisions, some with severalthousand students.”

The Pioneers finished 19-1-1 onthe season, with wins over WalshJesuit – ranked No. 1 in the state inDivision II at the time – and a 2-2 tiewith Cuyahoga Valley Christian

Academy, ranked No. 3 in DivisionII. Reserve is in Division III.

Reserve followed up its inauguralseason by playing U.S. three times in1927 and, in 1928, Nichols and ShadySide were added to the schedule. By1931 the schedule included freshmanteams from Oberlin, the University ofAkron and Western ReserveUniversity, along with teams from thenewly created Interstate League.

From the early 1930s to the late1950s, Reserve played six to 10games a season against such oppo-nents as Cranbrook, Kiski, FennCollege (now Cleveland StateUniversity) and a team called theAkron Indians. Hawken School andGilmour Academy were added to theschedule in the mid-1960s.

The program continued to growunder athletic director George Helwigin the 1960s. When Helwig arrived on

Soccer team celebrates milestoneBoys team marks 80 years of play at Homecoming

Homer Barnes, back row at center with the 1928 team, started the boys soccer pro-gram at Reserve in 1926.


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


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campus in 1960, no other public Ohio high schools hadvarsity soccer teams, and Reserve had to fill out its sched-ule with college freshman and junior varsity teams. WithHelwig leading the effort, the Reserve campus hostedannual soccer clinics for high schools interested in learn-ing the game. As a result, there were 58 public highschools playing at the varsity level when Helwig leftReserve in 1974.

Helwig’s contributions were recognized by the OhioCollege Soccer Coaches Association, who awarded him aplaque with the inscription “To the founding father ofOhio Scholastic Soccer.”

Today, the school typically plays 18 to 20 games aseason, with games starting in late August – before schoolofficially opens – including a now annual trip to theUniversity of Indiana, Haller’s alma mater, to compete inthe Hoosier Cup.

“The Hoosier Cup attracts top high school teams fromfar and wide, and this year we came in second, losing 2-1 inovertime,” Haller said. “The tournament is really great forthe players, who eat, drink and sleep soccer for two weeks.

“They also get to see the Indiana University playersup close – that gives them a nice idea of the kind of com-petition they look forward to at the college level.”

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 seasonswere in 1995-96 (14-0-4) and in 1984-85, Haller’s senioryear (18-0-2).

“Some schools got tired of losing to us regularly anddropped us from their schedules,” says Haller. “In additionto our Interstate rivals, we regularly play the best teams inNortheast Ohio, including Walsh Jesuit, Cuyahoga ValleyChristian Academy, Copley, Firestone, St. Vincent/St.Mary, Akron Hoban, St. Thomas Aquinas and BerlinHighland.

Haller works hard to keep the current team connectedto its past.

“Another big event for us is Reunion Weekend, whenour varsity plays a 30-minute game with a team made upof alumni,” he said. “Almost every year the alumni morethan hold their own.”

Continuity and consistency at the coaching level havehad much to do with the teams’ success over the years,Haller says.

“It’s really unusual for a high school to have had onlyeight head coaches over such a long stretch,” he said.

Current coach Herb Haller ’85 has continued the tradition ofwinning soccer at Reserve. Haller has won more than 100games at Reserve.

Dale Conly coached the Pioneers for 25 years, the longesttenure for a soccer coach in school history. His best team mayhave been the 1995 squad that finished 14-0-4.


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

“Homer Barnes was coach from1926-31, when Ray Mickel and PaulRoundy took over. Roundy was headcoach starting in 1934, and he wasjoined by Max LaBorde in 1947. TienWei Yang ’41 coached from 1956-66,and then Rollie Waite came in. Fiveyears later, Dale Conly began the firstof his 25 years as coach. In 1997 JeffGood ’83 took over, and I becamehead coach in 2000.

“The longevity, quality and loyal-ty to the program of the freshman,junior varsity and varsity assistantcoaches have also made a huge con-tribution. Phil Hogarth, JimMcClelland, Dick Jones, Rollie Waite,John Breuker and Diccon Ong,among others, have spent many yearson the sidelines and offering instruc-tion, advice and encouragement.”

Another sign of the program’sstrength is that there are currently fiveReserve graduates – Greg Gasbarro’03, Atilla Schmidt ’04, Peter Shorten’04, Yujin Murata ’06 and BidemiBusari ’06 – on college varsity teamsaround the country. Haller predictsthat several from this year’s team willgo on to college varsities, and asmany as seven or eight of the currentjunior class may well make it.

“No one knows for sure howmany have ended up on college teamsover the 80 years, but we know it’s alot,” Haller asserts.

There you have it. In 1926 a teamwas patched together from “fellows

who were not proficient in othersports.” Now, more than 1,000 gameslater, Western Reserve Academy’s“soccer football” program is amongthe best in the region.

Several former players returned for Homecoming to help the boys soccer team cele-brate the 80th anniversary of the team’s founding.


The end is in sight. With $38million in pledges and gifts –95 percent of its target –

already in hand, The Campaign forReserve is entering its final weeks.

“In this last phase,” notedDirector of Academy AdvancementHelen Gregory, “we’re trying to raise

that last $2million byappealing toeveryone inthe Reservefamily, giv-ing them onelast opportu-nity to bepart of thiseffort.”Campaigngifts andpledges, sheadded, willbe acceptedthroughoutthe fall, witha celebrationscheduled in2007 to markthe cam-paign’s suc-

cessful completion.

The $40 million campaign, whichbegan with a “quiet” fundraisingphase in 2001, has focused on fivekey areas of need: augmenting facultysupport, 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 alreadyprovided funds to meet several of its

goals, including the construction ofthe Murdough Athletic Center, whichopened in 2004, and additions andrenovations to dormitories such asGarden House and Bicknell House.

One thrust of the campaign’s finalmonths has been what Gregorydescribes as “a massive mailing andphoning effort,” in an attempt toremind people of the reasons for thecampaign and to encourage participa-tion. Alumni Dan Christman ’61, EdEmma ’73 and Chris Loughridge ’82,along with parents Hewitt and PaulaShaw (Andrew ’03, Rebecca ’05 andAmanda ’09), have authored letters tofellow alumni and parents, followedup by phone calls, hoping to enlisttheir support.

“Through The Campaign forReserve – Share the Vision, we havethe ability to showcase our WRApride and enrich the Academy’s repu-tation for excellence, making Reserve‘best in class,’” said Christman, whois senior vice president for interna-tional affairs at the U.S. Chamber ofCommerce. “Our leadership and sup-port will continue to uphold the mis-sion of the academy and encouragestudents to follow our example, andto lead appropriately when it’s theirturn to provide future students withthe same opportunities.”

Emma, who is president ofJockey International, is also a WRAparent; his son Arthur is a member ofthe Class of 2007. “Like many otheralums,” he reflected, “I’ve receivedtwo benefits from Reserve: an incred-ible educational and life-changingexperience for me and the joy ofwatching my son get the very samething. It was easy for me to agree tohelp the school with the campaign.”

Loughridge says he has alwayssupported Reserve because he “want-

ed to give something back” to theschool that had provided him withdirection, support and opportunity.“However, I felt even more compelledto contribute when someone pointedout to me how small the alumni baseof WRA truly is,” he said. His ownclass, he noted, numbers only 73; cur-rently, Reserve graduates just over 100students each year. “There are simplynot that many people from whom theschool can draw financial support,” headded. “Thus, every dollar contributedby every person who contributes, real-ly makes a difference.”

The campaign’s final monthshave also highlighted five relativelynew endowed funds and special giv-ing opportunities. Named for unfor-gettable members of the school com-munity, both faculty and alumni, thesefunds represent a way to join the cam-paign effort while at the same timeremembering and honoring the influ-ence and impact these five had duringtheir time at WRA – and beyond:

The Todd C. Weaver ’89 PrefectPrize recognizes two outstanding sen-ior prefects each year in memory of aformer Ellsworth prefect, who waskilled when the World Trade Centercollapsed. “Todd exemplified the besttraits that Reserve attempts to foster –intellectual curiosity, open-minded-ness and respect for others,” reflectedclassmate Jeff Johnston ’89.

The William H. Danforth ’34Memorial Fund provides scholarshipsupport for a deserving day student.Danforth, a legendary and muchbeloved member of the Reserve fami-ly, devoted 25 years (1951-1976) tothe school. “Bill shaped my path atReserve,” remembered ClarkMcFadden ’64, “and through hiswarmth, brightness and friendshipembodied the highest ideals ofReserve.”

The Corinne Van Dame DavisFund remembers Reserve’s first ladyof theater, who staged more than 100

Campaign nears finish lineAmbitious goal of raising $40 million in school’s sights

“Like many otheralums, I’vereceived two ben-efits fromReserve: anincredible educa-tional and life-changing experi-ence for me andthe joy of watch-ing my son get thevery same thing.It was easy for meto agree to helpthe school withthe campaign.”

Ed Emma ’73


WRA productions. “One of my moth-er’s greatest joys each year, even afterretirement, was seeing her former stu-dents at Reunion Weekend,” said herson, Randy Davis ’77. “She wasalways so proud of ‘how her kidsturned out.’ Every one of them.” Thefund seeks to establish an annualscholarship for a deserving student.

The Keir Vivienne Marticke ’02Memorial Fund supports the KeirMarticke Speaker Series, which in2006 brought well-known poetSharon Olds to campus. The fundalso supports a student prize, given inmemory of a young woman who wasa talented poet, artist, athlete andscholar. “Keir accomplished in herfour years at Reserve what takesmany a lifetime – she showed com-passion and commitment, intensityand dedication to her studies, hercauses, athletics and in support ofothers,” said her brother, Drew ’97.“We miss her.”

The William Moos FacultySabbatical Travel Fund, which hon-ors the memory of Reserve’s preemi-nent art teacher, will afford facultymasters and their families an opportu-nity to enrich their life experiencethrough travel. “Moos believed thattravel allows faculty to sharpen theirskills and to become better instruc-tors,” noted John Nicolls ’68, “bydeepening their knowledge of theirfield in the context of different envi-ronments, cultures and perspectives.”

All of these funds, according toGregory, have been established in thepast five years. “As the campaignnears the finish line, we’ve beenhighlighting them because so manypeople’s lives were touched, often inprofound ways, by these five individ-uals,” she added. “They made such adifference, and it’s our hope thatalumni and friends of the school willfind this a meaningful way to remem-ber them, and support Reserve at thesame time.”

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For more information on TheCampaign for Reserve, please contactDirector of Academy AdvancementHelen Gregory at [email protected] 330.650.9704.

The Campaign for Reserve, which isnearing its end, has raised significantfunds to help, clockwise from top,improve residential life, attract andretain top faculty, increase the number ofstudent scholarships and build theMurdough Athletic Center.


As Reunion 2006 kicked off on Friday, June 9,weather watchers breathed a sigh of relief as therain 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-tions, memorial services, golf and soccer, spectacular fire-works, campus tours and, of course, plenty of eating.

For the record, the eldest alumnus in attendance wasEd Levy ’31 of Tucson, 92 years young, according toDirector of Special Events Greta Rothman.Geographically, alums came from far and wide: MarcTaliaferro ’66 from Sweden, Jessica Pryce Burns ’81 andPhil Ginsberg ’01 from the U.K., Philip Norris ’46 fromHonolulu, and Dan Kaute ’81 and Fred Neal ’46 fromOntario, Canada. In addition, three alumni were singledout for special recognition during Saturday’s traditionalChapel Program: Anne Campbell Goodman ’84 receivedthe Waring Prize (see Page 39), Robert McCuskey ’56 wasawarded the Morley Science Medal (see Page 40) andDavid Hunter ’68 was honored with the AlumniAssociation 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, whowith his classmates was celebrating his 25th reunion.Fittingly, he noted, the Class of 1981’s home for theweekend was Seymour Alumni House on ProspectStreet, 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 couldregister online for Reunion Weekend, and roughly halfof 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 AlumniAssociation Golf Outing. Enthusiasm was strong, notedMurphy. “The golf outing continues to grow, and we hopenext year even more alumni from reunion classes will joinus,” he added. Murphy cited the leadership of the AlumniAssociation’s Golf Committee as key to the event’s suc-cess. And for the record, bragging rights for this year go tothe winning quintet of Scott Brubaker ’87, Phil Kuri ’86,Steve Kuri ’86, Rob Murray ’84 and longtime facultymaster Jim Fraser. Revenue from the golf outing nowfunds an annual student award (see Page 48).

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Bill Milhoan ’56, left, and Tom Glick ’56 catch up on old timesduring their 50th reunion at the All-Classes Dinner in EllsworthHall.

Fred Cummings ’85, Charles Sims ’71 and Bill Roemer ’51, leftto right, at the All-Classes Dinner.

Karen Burroughs and Paul Weller ’32, along with Ed ’31 andLila Levy. Ed Levy was the eldest alumnus in attendance.


That afternoon, on the Morgan Hall ter-race, friends and supporters gathered at aluncheon to celebrate H. Arthur Bellows Jr.’56 and his years of service as president of theBoard of Trustees (see Page 14). Mark Tercek’79, the board’s new president, was intro-duced and welcomed (see Page 18). Later thatevening, the weekend’s traditional All-ClassesDinner was held in Ellsworth Hall, followedby a magnificent fireworks display over thehockey pond, which each year is donated byAmerican Fireworks.

On Saturday morning, the Chapel Programfeatured two alumni speakers: interviewer andauthor Martin Perlich ’56 and Jennifer Hoelzer’96, a producer for the McLaughlin Group and aformer White House intern and congressionalspeech writer. The Alumni Chorus, directed byMargaret Karam ’79, performed former WRAchoral director Bill Appling’s arrangement of WeShall Walk Through the Valley and led thosegathered in Reserve’s alma mater. HeadmasterHenry Flanagan Jr., who had just completed his24th year at WRA, gave a brief “state of theschool” address, noting that he is the Academy’s30th headmaster. “Reserve is always changing,yet eternally the same,” he mused. “That ismagic – the combination of the two.”

Added to the program this year were thereading of names and the tolling of the Chapelbell in remembrance of classmates – 32 of them–who had passed away since the previousreunion. In addition, the classes of 1951 and1956 held separate memorial services fordeceased classmates, and the Class of 1971gathered to remember Michael “Chop” Allen. Afull slate of Saturday afternoon activities wasfollowed by 13 individual class dinners, heldthroughout the campus and in neighboringrestaurants and alumni homes. Celebrating its30th reunion, the Class of 1976 made a bit ofWRA history as the first reunion class to gatherat Kepner’s Tavern for its reunion dinner.

Reunion Weekend 2006 also included aspecial Moos Gallery exhibit entitledExpressive Landscapes by the Fraser Siblings,featuring 50 works by alumni artists ElizabethFraser ’89 and Michael Fraser ’93. The artistsare residents of Portland, Maine, and Maineseascapes were a prominent feature of the MoosGallery show, which saw a steady stream ofvisitors throughout the weekend. “The Frasers’exhibit was outstanding, and we hope we cancontinue to feature alumni exhibits at futurereunions,” said Murphy.

Director of the Annual Fund Lisa Sabolnoted that reunion giving for 2006 exceeded$419,000, part of the overall 2005-06 AnnualFund total of $1,701,379. “We exceeded our

Johanna Wagner ’86, Stacey Conner Talley ’86 and Sharisse Kimbro Jones’86 celebrate their 20th reunion with Tom Davis.

John Male ’01, Phil Ginsberg ’01, Brian Torski ’01, Adam Galea ’01, MattWilson ’01 and John Sorgi ’01 celebrate their 5th reunion.

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Bruce Williams ’46, Terry Garrigan ’46 and Dan Collister ’46 in EllsworthHall before Friday’s All-Classes Dinner.


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Annual Fund goal by over $100,000,”she said, “and on the whole thisyear’s efforts were very successful.”

According to Sabol, the Class of1951, celebrating its 55th reunion,raised the most money, at just morethan $125,000, a record for any 55threunion class. Among reunion classes,the Class of 1946, celebrating its 60th,had the highest participation at 84 per-cent. Also noteworthy is the Class of1935, which in a non-reunion yearachieved 100 percent participation inthe Annual Fund, with all 12 livingmembers of the class contributing.

For the second year in a row, theClass of 1950 Annual Fund Award,given annually to the graduating classwithin the past 10 years with the high-

est participation rate, went to the Classof 2004, with 51 percent participation.“Participation in the Annual Fundremains very strong,” noted Sabol,adding that current parents contributeda record total of more than $235,000,with 56 percent participation – a 19percent increase from last year. Nextyear’s Annual Fund goal has been setat $1.7 million. “Reserve is fortunateto have a strong, loyal and generousgroup of alumni, parents and friends,”Sabol said. “We are confident thatwith their continued support Reservecan meet this challenge.”

Rothman summed up Reunion2006 this way: “After speaking withseveral of the alumni who hadreturned, it seems that everyone had a

truly enjoyable and nostalgic experi-ence, one that will stay in their heartsand minds for a long time.”

For more reunion highlights andphotos, visit Reserve’s website(www.wra.net), select Alumni, thenclick on Reunion Weekend and lookfor Reunion Highlights.

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Planning is now underway forReunion 2007, scheduled for June 8-10.If your class year ends in 2 or 7, markyour calendar and plan to come home toReserve. For more information, contactGreta Rothman at 330.650.5862 [email protected], or log ontowww.wra.net, select Alumni and thenclick on Reunion Weekend.

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.

Jennifer Hoelzer ’96, a producer for the McLaughlin Group, wasa featured speaker at the Chapel Program.

Taeho Jinn ’86, left, Bob Perry ’86 and Bob’s daughter, Paige,at Saturday’s picnic lunch.


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Anne Campbell Goodman ’84 ispassionate about hunger. Asexecutive director of the

Cleveland Foodbank, she oversees thedistribution of more than 20 millionpounds of food each year.

“Simply stated, Anne has devotedher professional career to helping oth-ers,” said Director of AcademyAdvancement Helen Gregory, as shepresented Goodman with the 2006Waring Prize, WRA’s highest alumniaward, during Reunion Weekend inJune. “Anne is described by thosewho know her as a strong leader,compassionate, determined, graceful,approachable and generous,” addedGregory. “She has been recognized bymany Cleveland organizations for herbusiness savvy and financial acumen.But above all she connects with peo-ple and she makes things happen.”

“It was quite a surprise to find outabout this, because I’m sure you’ll allagree that it is well known that thisprize goes to grown-ups,” Goodmanquipped upon receiving the award.Turning serious, she told the manyalumni gathered for ReunionWeekend’s Chapel Program that shewas “single-minded” about hunger.

“Our freshman year, Mr. Kibbeasked us who we would vote for if wecould vote for president,” Goodmanreflected. “We told him, and he said,‘OK, now write an essay on why theother guy should win.’ I wrote a pret-ty bad essay, and Mr. Kibbe told me itwas because I was narrow-minded.Which I’m sure I was – and am.

“And so I decided to turn thatinto something positive,” Goodmancontinued, “by doing something andworking for something where it wasmy job to be narrow-minded. And Ilove being narrow-minded andfocused on feeding the hungry. Thereare lots of wonderful things to do, butbeing recognized for that is recogniz-ing an incredibly generous communi-ty – an incredibly generous country ofpeople that want to fight hunger andmake sure that the least among us aretaken care of.”

A graduate of the University ofNew Hampshire with a master’s

degree in social service administra-tion from the University of Chicago,Goodman’s professional life began inChicago, where she worked forFamily Focus and was a foundingboard member of Interfaith House, anon-profit organization dedicated toproviding housing and urgent servicesto the homeless. She then joined thestaff of the Greater Chicago FoodDepository, the largest foodbank inthe country, where she served as thedirector of development.

In 1999, when she and her hus-band moved to Cleveland, she wasappointed executive director of theCleveland Foodbank. The foodbankserves as a clearinghouse for donatedfood in the Cleveland area, solicitingdonations from local and nationalfood suppliers and manufacturers tobe distributed to area hunger pro-grams. The foodbank regularly pro-vides food to more than 450 membercharities, including soup kitchens,food pantries, shelters and programsfor children and the elderly.

Under Goodman’s leadership thefoodbank has seen tremendous growthin food distribution, merged with twoother hunger relief organizations andhas conducted a successful capitalcampaign to construct a distributioncenter. Currently, the foodbank serves

more than 150,000 people each year,distributing enough food for morethan 40,000 meals each day. Thirty-one percent of those served are chil-dren; 12 percent are senior citizens.

“Anne has made an importantcontribution in addressing the needsof the hungry,” commented FrankStarn ’81, a member of the WaringPrize Committee. “Her work withother foodbanks around the UnitedStates extends her positive influenceto other communities and agencies.She is a well-respected voice in thenational debate on hunger. Her worktouches the lives of many.”

Established in 1972 in honor ofJ. Frederick Waring, a 32-year mem-ber of the Reserve faculty, the WaringPrize 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 aninvolved and concerned member ofthe Reserve community. She is cur-rently co-chair of the Board ofVisitors and has served as president ofthe Alumni Association Board, andfor the past 10 years she has beenclass correspondent for the Class of1984. She and her husband, Larry,live in Shaker Heights with their twochildren, Abby and Andrew.

Director of Academy Advancement Helen Gregory, left, presents Anne CampbellGoodman ’84 with the Waring Prize.

Goodman ’84 honored with Waring Prize


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At Reunion Weekend’s Chapel Program in June, Dr.Robert McCuskey ’56 was honored as the 10threcipient of the Morley Science Medal. Given

annually since it was established in 2003, the award isnamed for the late Edward W. Morley, a former WesternReserve College faculty member and Nobel Prize nomi-nee. The medal is presented to alumni who have distin-guished themselves in careers devoted to science. Amongthose present for the awarding of the 2006 Morley Medalwere previous medalists Frank Austen ’46, Lee Morin ’70and Kathryn Clark ’76.

According to Reserve biology teacher ChristineBreuker, who presented the award, McCuskey has done“knock-your-socks-off science.” A faculty member at theUniversity 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 2004he received the prestigious Eugene M. Landis ResearchAward for his work in microcirculation, and is acknowl-edged worldwide for his work in microcirculation,microscopy and pathobiology. In 2005, McCuskey retiredas head of the department of cell biology and anatomy atthe university’s College of Medicine, a position he hadheld for 19 years.

“I am delighted and honored to have been selected tobe the recipient of the 2006 Morley Science Medal, espe-cially since its award coincided with my 50th classreunion,” said McCuskey. “I attribute much of my successin life to the education that I received at WRA, both insideand outside of the classroom. For this, I thank my parents(both alumni of WRA), the outstanding and dedicated fac-ulty at WRA and my fellow classmates.” In his remarks tothe Chapel Program audience, McCuskey paid tribute toformer WRA biology teacher Tien Wei Yang ’41, recallinghis days under Yang’s tutelage “chasing rattlesnakes, Gilamonsters and scorpions around the lab.”

“When our committee was considering candidates forthis year’s award, we found, in the case of ProfessorMcCuskey, a résumé so diverse and so extensive that, insummarizing it, I am almost forced to throw in that phrase‘and I don’t know what all,’” Breuker told the audiencewith a smile. “The literally hundreds of publications thathave been generated by research in his laboratory speak tothe merits and importance of basic research. It is amazingto me that this classically trained biologist, plugging awayfor over 40 years, has clearly managed to bring the old-fashioned study of anatomy into the 21st century. He is aliving testimony, a poster child for the merits of doingbasic research.”

McCuskey earned his bachelor’s and Ph.D. degreesfrom Case Western Reserve University. The recipient ofmany honors and awards, he has been a member and offi-cer of numerous professional organizations, including astint as president of the American Association ofAnatomists. His research has included important work

with the liver, as well as the spleen, lungs, bones, intes-tines and pancreas. McCuskey has developed and broughtsophisticated imaging techniques into the areas of neuro-science, molecular biology, cellular biology, pharmacolo-gy, physiology and pathology.

“You can imagine how proud we are to claim BobMcCuskey as our very own,” added Breuker. “Though noone in the present WRA science department can take anycredit for his success, we intend to brag about him all thesame. I know I speak for the Class of 1956, as well.”

McCuskey’s photograph and a profile of his careerwill become part of Reserve’s permanent display ofMorley Medal recipients, located in the second-floorgallery of the Wilson Hall Science Center.

McCuskey ’56 receives Morley Medal

Biology teacher Christine Breuker presents Dr. RobertMcCuskey ’56 with the Morley Science Medal.

Morley Science MedalThe Morley Medal Committeeis seeking nominations for the2007 Morley Science Medal. Ifyou know of a qualified candidate, please contact RayMurphy, director of alumni relations, at [email protected] 330.650.9703. The deadline for nominations is Dec. 1, 2006.


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reunion classes

1st Row: Howie Wells, Bruce Silver, Bill Peace, Rod Grant 2nd Row: Roy Spielman, Earl Christy, Sherman Hasbrouck

1941Vin Allin ’36, Ed Levy ’31, Fred Albrecht ’36

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, DickVan Pelt, Ronald Hess

1st Row: Bob Garfield, Jim Lewis, TerryGarrigan, Bill Laub, Dick Wright andBruce Williams2nd Row: Dan Collister, Doug Hasbrouck,Fred Neal, Phil Norris, Tom Allchin andJim Miller

1946

1951

1931 & 1936

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1st Row: Dan Carter, Hector Rodriguez,David Webb, Tom Myers, Bud Niden,Mark Bealafeld, Steve Witter, Marty Hauser, Greg Pennington2nd Row: David Estabrook, Jim Fraser,Lee Morin, Hal Donnelly, Tom Getz,Watts Wacker, Rick Dixon, Charles Sims,Steve Williams, Rock Gnatovich

1st Row: George Russell, Tom Glick,Lennig Chang, Bill Milhoan2nd Row: John Pyke, Alan Wulff, Jack Fowler, John Kirk3rd Row: Russ Burleigh, George McCord,Bill Yeckley, Tom Marks, John Lutton,Bob McCuskey4th Row: Stuart Baker, Bob Carabell, Ben Watkins, Ted Hayes

1956

1st Row: Lane Manning, Jeff Brown, Rod Kyriakides, Paul Marcus2nd 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

1966

1971


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1st Row: Abby Weary Wenstrup, Jessica PryceBurns, Rachel Burnham VanVoorhis, MelissaMather, Tracy Hamlin Nolan, Carrie WalkerNouse, Chris Howlett, Art Chang, Dave Charlton2nd Row: Ray Murphy, Lee Smith, MarkPatton, Jennifer Holden Dunbar, Pete Rebar,Meg Burns Miller, Diccon Ong, DaphneClessuras Shoemaker, Priscilla Vail Caldwell,Karen Sheehan, Janet Lepke Harris, David Croasdaile3rd Row: Dan Kaute, Justin Rogers, RobWhite, Rob Galloway, Tim Merryweather, Rob Tercek 4th Row: Parke FitzGerald, Jennifer Morton,Ann Hunter Durr, C. Davies Reed, Stephanie Fernyak

1981

1st Row: Kumar Pillai, Eric Nauffts, Rick Rundell, Rob Kurilla, Frank Buttitta2nd Row: Bill Emery, Jim Thompson,Angus Burton, Kathy Clark, Harry Thomas, Jane Dawson, Ruth Levtov Heide, Kip Tobin, Jeanne Donovan, Larkin Rogers, Maria Pryce

1st Row: Taeho Jinn, JP Deuble, JohnRah, Mark Hill, Johanna Wagner,Margaret Cushwa Haller, John Steinhauer,Jenny Weiss, Betsey Jennings Lockwood,Laura Jones Fillman, Lesley HendershottCain, Dawn Friedkin, Angela DarlingCarrano, Judy Wilson Ronchetti, David King2nd Row: John Rehling, Doug Coen,Chris Rundell, David Dunne, Rob Austin,Lisa Tibbals Gilcrest, Stacey ConnerTalley, Sharisse Kimbro Jones, Rob Hurlbert

1976

1986

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1st Row: Joe Doss, Amit Hazra, Paul Afrooz, Lisa Buckey, Jennifer Hoelzer, Mary Vizmeg2nd Row: Pierce Oswick, Eric Kahrl, Sig Rydquist, Ernie Hedler IV, Jennifer Wyer, David Flechner

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

1st Row: Daniel Rodriguez, JonWhittlesey, John Male, Mathew Wilson,David Dudick, Loren Carlson, Adam Galea2nd Row: Lindsay Yost, Christy Neu,Laura Faulkner, Sarah Hammel, MeganPeterson, Lisa Friedman, Kate Tyler, JessySmith, Josie Kline, Sabrina Singh, Jess Chung, Sara Shalowitz3rd 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

2001

1991

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Alumni & Development

In conjunction with the Alumni &Development Office, the AlumniAssociation Board has intro-

duced an online service for WRAalums:online classnotes. Now,in additionto the popu-lar classnotes pub-lished twicea year in theAlumniRecord, youcan log ontothe Reservewebsite andsee whatyour class-mates and

friends are up to – or add your ownnews.

“Online class notes give alums anadditional way to pass along news andupdates,” said Ray Murphy ’81, direc-tor of alumni relations, noting thatalumni should have received informa-tion this fall about the new service,which was launched in September.

“Several alumni suggested this, and itmakes sense that as more alums usethe Internet, they want to take advan-tage of more online services. Theonline notes are far more timely thanthe Alumni Record, which comes outonly twice a year,” Murphy added.

Currently, Reserve offers threesecure, password-protected services toregistered alumni: the Online AlumniDirectory, the Career Network and thenew Class Notes. All three can beaccessed through the alumni page ofthe school’s website, www.wra.net. Inorder to take advantage of these serv-ices, alumni must first register withthe Online Directory. To register, sim-ply select “Staying in Touch” on theWRA alumni page, choose OnlineAlumni Directory and follow theinstructions for first-time users.

Alumni can use the online classnotes in a variety of ways. When youlog in, you’ll see the latest postingsfrom all classes. You can select any ofthe eight categories listed – mar-riages, career news, birth announce-ments, travel news, etc. – to narrowyour search, or you can enter yourclass year (or a range of years) to

access the news that interests you.Adding a note of your own is

easy. Simply choose a category andtype in your news. You can addimages, if you like, and you can alsoindicate whether you’d like your newsto be submitted for publication in theAlumni Record, as well.

“WRA’s online services are meantto help alumni connect – and recon-nect – with one another,” commentedChristine Bradbury, WRA’s websiteeditor. These services, she added, aresponsored by the Alumni AssociationBoard, which has been working close-ly with Ray Murphy in the Alumni &Development Office over the past twoyears to identify online services thatwill benefit all alumni.

“This is all about reaffirmingrelationships – with Reserve and witheach other,” adds Murphy. “Manyalumni only get in touch during theirreunion years. Using the online classnotes, they can share news wheneverthey want.”

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Alumni group launches online class notes

“Many alumnionly get in touchduring theirreunion years.Using the onlineclass notes, theycan share newswhenever theywant.”Ray Murphy ’81,

Director ofAlumni Relations


OLDRESERVENEWS OF

“Oh, long may time these things preserve”

By Thomas L. Vince

Archivist/Historian

When Theodora Singletary ofStreetsboro and her two sis-ters, Harriet and Marie,

enrolled at Western ReservePreparatory School in the fall of 1873,they were among the first youngwomen to be admitted to our school.

The Singletary sisters would com-plete the prep school curriculum andtwo 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 fromWestern Reserve College in 1835.

He had served as mayor of Akronbefore the family moved toStreetsboro, and as the father of eight,was pleased to be able to send histhree daughters and one son to Hudsonfor 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 $2for “contingencies.” Boarding wouldbe extra, and girls were not housed oncampus until the 1880s.

When the Singletary sistersbegan their round of classes, theycould have counted 68 students in

the Preparatory School. The otherpioneer coeds were Alice LouiseMorrison of Twinsburg, and JuliaElizabeth Porter and Mary EllaAddis, both of Hudson. It was EllaAddis who would gather photos ofher classmates (and teachers) andassemble an album that provides awindow on campus life in the 1870s.

These six young women were thebeneficiaries of President CarrollCutler’s enlightened policy of admit-ting women to both the college andthe school. When he became schoolpresident in 1871, he announced that

“if any woman thirsting for knowl-edge should seek it at this fountain,she should not be refused merelybecause she was a woman.” Cutlerlater stated that nothing in the old col-lege’s charter “presented any obsta-cles to the admission of women” andthat there was “no objection on thepart of the Trustees.”

But these pioneers would need toshow that they could master the samecurriculum as their male counterparts.Since the time of the Civil War, thePreparatory School curriculum wasdesigned for a three-year program. Inthe first year, students were requiredto take Latin (grammar and the firstpart of Caesar), mathematics, geogra-

Classics and coeds:WRA in the 1870s

Marie Singletary taught in Denver for 10years and later studied for a medicaldegree. She was the first Reserve alumnato become a doctor.

Theodora Singletary was one ofReserve’s first coeds. She earned a bach-elor’s degree before becoming a teacherin Colorado.

President Carroll Cutler’s decision to admit womenpaved the way for six true Reserve pioneers

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phy, English grammar and rhetoric, acourse that was a combination ofEnglish composition and speech.Every week there was a sessiondevoted to student “declamations.”

In their second year, students readand studied Caesar and Cicero inLatin, began the study of Greek, con-tinued with math, studied antiquities ingeography and in their history coursefocused on Roman history. In the sec-ond term of that year, Latin wouldcover all eight of Cicero’s orations,and in Greek they would read theAnabasis of Xenophon. In math theywould learn the metric system and inhistory the topic would be Greece.

If students survived until the thirdyear, they would study Vergil’sBucolics and Georgics in addition tothe Aeneid, while reading Xenophonin Greek along with Homer’s Iliad,and expanding their math skills withalgebra and geometry (using the text-books by Elias Loomis, who had beenon the faculty and had established theLoomis Observatory). Once thesecourses were mastered to satisfaction(oral and written exams were heldtwice a year), the student could moveon to college without benefit of acommencement ceremony. Duringmost of the 1870s, Jairus R. Kennanwas principal of the school.

Of those six young women whoentered in 1873, three of them, Ella

Addis, and Theodora and MarieSingletary, completed the preparatorycourse and went on to earn a bache-lor’s degree from Western ReserveCollege. All three became teachers,with the Singletary sisters both study-ing for an advanced degree. EllaAddis would teach in Middletown,N.Y., marry and move to Mystic,Conn. She and her husband laterreturned to Ohio, settling in Lisbon,where she died in 1946. Her photoalbum found its way back toReserve’s archives many years ago.

Both Theodora and MarieSingletary eventually moved toDenver, where both were teachers,and where Marie studied medicine atwhat is now the University of Denver,earning her M.D. in 1898.

Denver was also the home of oneof their classmates from the oldPreparatory School, Charles Read

Pierce, grandson of George E. Pierce,the great president of the collegewhose house is now the home ofReserve’s headmaster. Like Theodoraand Marie’s brother, Zachary, CharlesPierce found the classical curriculumat the school too daunting, and had todrop out. It was a testimony to thesefirst WRA “coeds” that they succeed-ed far beyond what might have beenexpected.

The lineal heirs to Theodora andMarie Singletary were the youngwomen who enrolled at WRA some99 years later when the schoolresumed its coeducational status in1972, following nearly 50 years whenWRA was a school for boys only.

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If you have any questions or com-ments about this story, you may con-tact Archivist & Historian Tom Vinceat [email protected].

Ella Addis Pettis taught in New York andConnecticut and later published two vol-umes of poetry. Her photo album ishoused in the Reserve archives.

President Carroll Cutler of WesternReserve College. His belief in higher edu-cation for women opened WRA’s doorsto our first coeds in 1873.

Henry E. Lee was a classmate of WRA’sfirst coeds in the 1870s. Lee was mayorof Hudson from 1888 to 1894.

Tom Vince is on the web!Archivist & Historian Tom Vince will besharing his thoughts and stories in a blogon www.wra.net. Learn more aboutWestern Reserve Academy’s long and col-orful history by visiting www.wra.net/vis-itors/history.cfm.


Alumni Association

When 81 avidgolfersturned out

for the fourth annualAlumni Associationgolf outing in June,more was at stakethan just prizes – orbragging rights. Withthe event’s growingsuccess, the AlumniAssociation Boardbegan to recognize itspotential as afundraiser, as well.That’s why, in 2005,a board committee,and ultimately theentire board, voted to establish a spe-cial student prize.

Since its creation, the AlumniAssociation Student Prize has beenawarded annually at the springCelebration of Student Excellenceassembly. “Our goal over time is tomake it an endowed scholarship,” saidDon Husat, former president of theAAB and now chair of the scholarshipcommittee. “After consultation withthe headmaster, it was decided to pres-ent the award to a junior each springto help him or her defray such senioryear expenses as college applicationfees. The recipient, among other crite-ria, should be the kind of person whowill well represent Reserve as a gradu-ate, and who we believe will remainan active and contributory member ofthe alumni population.”

The first recipient, in 2005, wasPiper Beckwith-Collings ’06. Anactivist who helped organize severalfundraising events as a WRA student,Beckwith-Collings is currently amember of the freshman class atKenyon College, where she plans tostudy English or drama. This pastspring, Elizabeth Timmis ’07 wasnamed the 2006 winner.

“I was surprised and, of course,very happy to receive this award,”Timmis said. “One nice thing was thatPiper received it the year before me,and we’re good friends. One of thereasons that I won the award was formy work in the ALS fashion show(held January 2006 to benefitAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosisresearch) with her, so that was veryfitting.” To complement the show’sfashions, Timmis provided speciallydesigned jewelry from her ElizabethDarling line. She has also donatedproceeds from her jewelry projects toWildlife Trust.

At Reserve she serves as a chiefambassador for the Admission Officeand a writer for the Reserve Record.An avid equestrian who rides year-round, Timmis has competed success-fully with her two horses in Vermont,Ohio, New York and Florida.

If the Timmis name is familiar toolder alumni, that’s because herfather, Jack ’49, as well as two uncles,James ’45 and George ’55, precededher at WRA. “I know my dad is veryhappy that I’m at Reserve,” shereflects, “and he loves to come backbecause his years here rank high onthe list of the happiest of his life.”

Oct. 6-7 proved to be a spec-tacular Homecoming week-end on the Reserve campus.

This was the fourth annualHomecoming sponsored byReserve’s Alumni AssociationBoard. In addition to Homecoming,it was also Parents’ Day, whichbrought a large number of parentsand family members to the campus.On Friday night, the Dads Clubheld their annual dinner and auc-tion, which was then followed bythe traditional student bonfire. OnSaturday, students, families andalumni were treated to a picnicluncheon in Memorial Gymnasium.

On Saturday afternoon, theWRA athletic teams took to thefield for some outstanding perform-ances. The football, boys soccer andfield hockey teams all won, whilethe girls soccer, tennis and volley-ball teams all lost close matches.

Homecoming Weekend is justone of many events the AlumniAssociation Board sponsors orhosts. We have many events sched-uled around the country, and thesecan be found on the Alumni pageof the school’s website.

Plans are already underway forthe fifth annual Alumni AssociationGolf Tournament, scheduled forJune 8 during Reunion Weekend. Iam pleased to report that thanks tothe hard work of a great golf com-mittee we raised approximately$21,000 for the AAB scholarshipfund. We request that the reunioncommittees of the 2007 reunionclasses urge their members to par-ticipate in this great event.

In closing, I would like to wel-come those who are joining theboard for the upcoming year: DaveFlechner ’96, James Fowler ’75,Kerry Kirk ’94, Tucker Marshall’95, Drew McKechnie ’00 andWhitney White ’48.

Charles Mullins ’65Board President

Notes from the

president’s desk

Don Husat ’64 presents Elizabeth Timmis ’07 with theAlumni Association Student Prize. With them is last year’srecipient, Piper Beckwith-Collings ’06.

Alumni Association prize

awarded to Timmis ’07


ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

David Hunter ’68 was honoredduring Reunion Weekend asrecipient of Reserve’s 2006

Alumni Association Award. A familiarface to Academy students, faculty andstaff, Hunter has been a staunch advo-cate for students and a hard-workingmember of the Board of Trustees formore than 20 years; he currentlyserves as vice president.

Hunter’s commitment to theschool is hands on. One of the board’smost visible presences on the Reservecampus, he has given hours of histime to the important work of 10 dif-ferent trustee committees. As chair ofthe education and planning committee,he has led efforts to modernize thecurriculum over the years, reassessingcontent and graduation requirements,as well as overseeing the successfulincorporation of technology into theclassroom. He has also been instru-mental in securing continued accredi-tation from state and national educa-tional rating associations.

Alumni Association BoardPresident Chuck Mullins ’65, whopresented the award on behalf of theAlumni Association, noted thatHunter’s experience and expertise hadbeen invaluable to the school, andalso immensely helpful to those withwhom he serves. “In my position aspresident of the Alumni AssociationBoard,” Mullins noted, “I also sit onthe Board of Trustees, and David hasgiven me great advice and counsel inhelping me to understand the impor-tant role the boards play at Reserve.”

“I am very honored,” commentedHunter about the award. “And when Ihad a chance to look back and reflecton some of some of the previousrecipients – including DavidWarshawsky ’51, Jeff Keener ’50,Dagmar Fellowes ’75 and AnneCampbell Goodman ’84 – this recog-nition takes on added significance.It’s a real honor for me to be includedin their number.”

Reflecting on Reserve’s growthover the past two decades, Hunter notedthe importance of the physical plant’stransformation, as well as the cultiva-

tion of the full involvement of theBoard of Visitors, which was created inthe late 1980s and functions in an advi-sory capacity to the Board of Trustees.

“These are important things,” hesaid, “but most meaningful, for me,has been the opportunity to observe thecaring and the dedication of the facul-ty, across the board, capped off everyyear at commencement. I’ve made it apriority to attend commencement eachyear. I’ve had the privilege of havingboth of my daughters graduate fromReserve, and I’ve seen what the schooland the faculty have done for them,and for their classmates. That’s reallywhat it’s all about.”

A partner in the Akron law firmBrouse McDowell, Hunter received hisbachelor’s degree from Princeton andhis law degree from the University ofAkron. He is recognized for his expert-ise in general business law and com-mercial law; he also serves as CEOand chairman of the board of directorsfor Valley Savings Bank. The Hunterfamily’s connection with Reserve is alongstanding one: David Hunter’sbrother and sister, James ’72 and AnneDurr ’81, are both graduates, as aredaughters Marie ’01 and Helen ’06.This fall a niece, Katie Durr, hasjoined the student body as a memberof the Class of 2010.

Originating in 1982, the Alumni AssociationAward is presented annually to an alumnus oralumna “who has demonstrated outstandingcommitment to Reserve, primarily significantvolunteer work on behalf of the school.” Tonominate someone, visit the school’s websiteand use the online form in the Alumni section.

Alumni Association Award

David Hunter ’68 receives AAB award

Alumni Association Board President Charles Mullins ’65, right, presents DavidHunter ’68 with the Alumni Association Award.


In MemoriamWhen someone from the Reserve communitypasses away, many members of our extendedfamily feel the loss. To help us keep classmatesinformed, please send a copy of the obituary tothe Alumni & Development Office, 115 CollegeSt., Hudson, Ohio 44236.

The Academy has learned of the deaths of

the following members of the Reserve

family:

Louise Saywell Donofrio ’27William R. Ingraham ’34 John B. Darrow ’35G. Robert Fox ’36 Edward G. Brouse ’38 Ford W. Brunner ’38 H. Eustis Reily ’38John 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. ’54Richard H. Geuder ’54 R. Thomas Collins Jr. ’66 Eric R. Bury ’80 Ellen Benn Sally Helwig

Louise Elizabeth Saywell Heath

Donofrio

Class of 1927Louise 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-

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.


Ford W. Brunner

Class of 1938Ford 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 1938H. 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 1938John 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 1939Theodore 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 MilwaukeeJournal and authored numerous books,

including the mystery novel The MuskieMurders, 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 1942John 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 1945John 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

IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMORIAM

the Akron area. The first pediatric subspe-

cialist in Akron, Kramer worked on

behalf of children for over 30 years

through his long associations with

Children’s Hospital,

Northeast Ohio

Universities College of

Medicine

(NEOUCOM) and

Summit County

Children Services. A

highly respected

teacher of young

physicians, Kramer

was instrumental in the evolution and

planning of NEOUCOM and served as

the pediatrics department’s first chair. At

Children’s Hospital he held several

important positions, including director of

cardiology and director of pediatric edu-

cation. Throughout his career Kramer

received numerous honors, including

recognition from Summit County

Children Services for 45 years of “dedi-

cation and devotion in providing quality

medical care to the abused and neglected

children of Summit County.” Of his years

at Reserve he once commented, “Above

all my fondest memories are of the vari-

ous members of the Class of 1945 and all

the fun times thus involved.” A brother,

James ’43, preceded him in death.

Kramer is survived by his beloved wife

of 45 years, Joan; seven children,

Margaret Taylor (Patrick), Jim (Mary),

Devitt (Julia), Molly Scantling (David),

Karen Beringer (Don), Michael and Ellen

Seder (Scott); sister-in-law Marilyn

Kramer and 21 grandchildren.

Harry S. Milligan Jr.

Class of 1946Harry S. Milligan Jr. of Coconut Creek,

Fla., died June 26, 2006. A Korean War

veteran, Milligan was a graduate of Ohio

University with a master’s degree from

Columbia University School of

Journalism. He was publisher and owner

of the Sun Bulletin newspaper in

Binghamton, N.Y. He is survived by the

mother of his children, Sharon Gardner

Koehler; daughter Laura Berwick; sons

Kip Hunsinger and Kristopher Milligan;

sisters Jenny Douglas and Janus McLean;

and seven grandchildren.

Jack L. Renner

Class of 1947Jack L. Renner of Hudson died June 25,

2006. At Reserve and later at the

University of Akron, Renner was an out-

standing wrestler, attributing his success

to his WRA coach, Ed Ellis, whom he

called “the finest wrestling coach I have

ever met.” Renner sur-

vived a bout with

polio at the age of 21

and went on to earn a

law degree from Case

Western Reserve.

After graduation he

began a 40-year career

in patent law with Ely,

Fry and Hamilton in

Akron, ultimately retiring as president

and senior partner of the firm, now

known as Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak,

Taylor & Weber. He also spent years

working at his parents’ swimming park in

Munroe Falls, now part of the Metro

Parks system. His interests over the years

included fishing, flying small planes, sail-

ing and woodcarving. An active supporter

of WRA, he once recalled his fondest

Reserve memories: “the lifelong friends I

made; those masters who gave me a

chance, even though I was in continuous

jeopardy of being asked to leave because

of my poor academic standing; and the

coaching staff who labored to encourage

an uncoordinated kid from the country,

without any athletic skills, to do his best

and in the process win varsity letters in

three sports.” He will be remembered for

his honesty, integrity and strong work

ethic. Renner is survived by his wife of

more than 40 years, Nancy; and two chil-

dren, Julie and John ’86.

R.W. “Johnny” Apple Jr.

Class of 1952R.W. “Johnny” Apple Jr. of Washington,

D.C., died Oct. 4, 2006, of complica-

tions from thoracic cancer. One of

Reserve’s best known and most colorful

alumni, Apple joined The New YorkTimes staff in 1963 and spent the next 43

years parsing wars, revolutions and pres-

idential campaigns while also ruminating

about culture, the arts and gastronomy.

His final Times feature was published

Oct. 22. He was well known for his

front-page “news analysis” articles,

which spanned 30 years of national and

international events. He may have been

equally well known for his virtually

unlimited expense account. As a student

at Reserve, Apple was sports editor of

the Reserve Recordand editor-in-chief of

the yearbook. His

father hoped he would

join the family busi-

ness – a chain of

Akron area grocery

stores – but he went

on to Princeton and

eventually received

his bachelor’s degree from Columbia’s

School of General Studies. By then he

was already working as a journalist, at

The Wall Street Journal and TheNewport News Daily Press before being

hired by NBC News. But he made his

name at The New York Times, serving as

bureau chief in Albany, Lagos, Nairobi,

Saigon, Moscow, London and

Washington. In 1976, MORE magazine

called Apple “America’s most powerful

political reporter.” He responded, “I am

frightened by it, or perhaps awed is a

better word. And I am very reluctant to

throw it around in the newspaper. I’m

very ambivalent about the power I have

and the way it’s used. Yet I would be

transparently un-candid if I didn’t say I

do enjoy it enormously.” Apple was later

named chief correspondent and then

associate editor of The Times, but in his

later years he spent more time covering

food and travel than politics and war. He

combined his love for fine dining with

his sense of wanderlust in Apple’sEurope and Apple’s America, two books

full of travel and restaurant tips culled

from his expansive personal experience.

In 1976 Apple was awarded the Waring

Prize, Reserve’s highest alumni honor.

Always proud of his Ohio roots, Apple

was a loyal WRA alumnus who served

on the Board of Visitors and visited the

campus as a special speaker when his

busy schedule permitted. In 2002, on the

occasion of his 50th WRA reunion, a

large alumni audience heard him reflect

on his Reserve days and on his career. “I

arrived (at Reserve) in 1948, thinner,

more hirsute and less myopic,” he said

wryly, adding that Reserve had “opened


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 1954John 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 1954Richard 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 1966R. 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 DailyNews 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 FamilyNarrative 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 1980Eric 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, PresidentOlney, Md.

Charles R. Purse ’78, Vice PresidentGreenwich, Conn.

Inga Weimer Walker ’91, Vice PresidentHudson, Ohio

Lorraine Debose ’93, SecretaryEuclid, Ohio

Jeffrey E. Johnston ’89, TreasurerUniversity 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

James G. Clessuras ’88 San Francisco, Calif.

Steven B. Copperman ’88 Hudson, Ohio

Jay R. Davis ’77Sugar Hill, Ga.

Jeffrey R. Egdell ’92 Beverly Hills, Mich.

George R. Evans ’84 Sherman Oaks, Calif.

David H. Flechner ’96 New York, N.Y.

Marianne Schweikert Fouts ’83

Avon Lake, Ohio

James K. Fowler ’75 York, Pa.

Charles M. Hammel ’65 Hudson, Ohio

Joseph S. Huang ’88 Ashtabula, Ohio

Donovan D. Husat ’64 Hudson, Ohio

C. Randolph Keller ’76 Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Kerry Kirk ’94 McClean, Va.

Robert E. C. Little ’51 Pepper Pike, Ohio

Tucker H. Marshall ’95 Brecksville, Ohio

William G. Martin ’52 Blacklick, Ohio

Amery B. Martinez ’95 Charlotte, N.C.

Kristen Lepke Mayer ’84 Aurora, Ohio

Robert S. McCulloch III ’69

Salem, Ohio

James M. McDowell ’48 Lakewood, Ohio

Edward D. McKechnie ’00 Arlington, Va.

Meredith Dorson Mitchell ’87

Indianapolis, Ind.

Andrew I. Rand ’85 Beverly Farms, Mass.

Larkin Rogers ’76 Hudson, Ohio

Marc J. Ruxin ’88 San Francisco, Calif.

Ross B. Simons ’69 Alexandria, Va.

John P. Stafford ’74 Bedford, Va.

Kathleen Sauber Steinbock ’87

Louisville, Ky.

Charles J. Tercek ’79 Beverly Hills, Calif.

Charles L. Tramel II ’79 Medina, Ohio

Megan McArn Valentine ’85

Redding, Conn.

Cheryl A. Wear ’82 Akron, Ohio

Whitney R. White ’48 Phoenix, Ariz.

James J. Yoo ’93 Cleveland Heights, Ohio

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