centennial - Lawrence Woodmere Academy

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L aw r e nc e
Woodmer e
Ac a dem y
c e n t e n n i a l
E d i t i o n
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C o v e r : All 262 Academy students and its 80 faculty and staff embody the centennial spirit on one of the Academy’s fields.
Photographed from a helicopter at noon on October 1st, 2012, the right-side “0” is comprised entirely of Preschool-4th grade
students and faculty, the left-side “0” of 9th-12th grade students, and the “1” entirely of faculty and staff.
Our deepest thanks to Academy parent William LaPaugh (P’19, P’20) for organizing the aerial photography.
L aw r e n c e
Woodmere
Academy
c e n t e n n i a l
E d i t i o n
2Letter
from the Headmaster
3Letter
from the Board President
4A
Brief Academy History
8Breaking
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Down Financial Barriers
Day in the Career
12 Worldwide
14
to Woodmere
1OO Years, 1OO Alumni
16 Class
Notes
22Annual
29Think
Report
About It
Centennial Memories
“I loved coming to school. I think above all what I remember and feel is that the faculty was very devoted…
I was far away from home (Israel), but felt welcome, loved, safe.”
Lolly Horn Ezra, ’92
Letter from the Headmaster
In this our 100th year, I find it inspiring to reflect upon why our school was founded.
Early in the year 1912, Clarence G. Galston, a young lawyer living in Woodsburgh and the father of two children, met
with six families from the Rockaway Peninsula to discuss the formation of a private school in the Five Towns area.
From that discussion a house located at the corner of what eventually became Woodmere Boulevard and Central
Avenue was given to these parents to use as a school. With that transaction, the history of Woodmere Academy, now
part of Lawrence Woodmere Academy, began.
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T he values these
founding families
considered
have remained
impressively
consistent through
the century of our
school’s history.
The values these founding families considered have remained impressively consistent through the century of our
school’s history. For example, the following words, part of an expansion campaign under consideration in 1947, still
ring true today:
“…[The] Academy is a country day school, and as such, must assume responsibility for furthering the physical, mental
and moral development of the child. Throughout [one’s] years at the Academy, the student receives the benefit of the
sympathetic guidance of experienced teachers…Like a wise and thoughtful parent, the Academy cultivates good study
habits, thereby improving the capacity of the student to cope with difficult intellectual tasks…and to cope with them
with a feeling of confidence and assurance.”
Individual attention remains at the core of our mission. Yet we have also expanded our purpose to include the
opportunity for all of our students to experience a community of learners that truly represents the world in which
we live. With the recent addition of students from China, we can proudly boast that our community enjoys the
connectedness of our world right here on Woodmere Boulevard.
This year’s Annual Report, included in this publication, is a testimony to the philanthropy of our extended school
community and a further validation of our mission and commitment to providing the very best educational experience
for our students. Your support makes everything we are and everything we provide possible. Healthy schools do not
stand still and, with your continued support, we will continue to move forward while demonstrating and instilling the
same values which inspired our founders 100 years ago.
Sincerely,
Alan Bernstein
Centennial Memories
“I remember class night, singing songs of loyalty to the school (‘Throughout the tears and laughter of these years…’).”
Marianna Lubow Lee, ’48W
Centennial Memories
“Woodmere Academy did not have ordinary teachers. They were somewhat tough angels in disguise.”
Randee Shenkel, ’68
Letter from the Board President
Seeing is believing, and the 2011-2012 school-year included many visible signs of the Academy’s fiscal and philanthropic
ascendancy.
On a Monday evening in April, 250 parents, alumni, alumni-parents and friends dined, sponsored, golfed, bid and/or raffled
their way to a $115,000 contribution for the Annual Fund at the Woodmere Club. It is worth noting the incredible volunteer
engagement that made this possible, including a devoted parent Spring Fundraiser committee and alumni auction donors. Overall,
the Annual Fund exceeded its $400,000 goal, raising 20% more than in the previous year, supporting not only everything we as a
school provided our students and faculty, but also funding major technology upgrades including 12 new SMART and Eno boards
and improved Hessel Hall lighting and sound.
Whether an
alumnus, parent,
grandparent or
parent of an
alumnus, faculty
member or friend,
the Academy’s
100 th year is an
achievement that
belongs to us all.
The Woodmere Club was not the only place packed to capacity last year. LWA Summer Day served 625 campers, drawing from
Manhattan as well as the outer boroughs and Long Island, and received local recognition for its innovative enrichment and arts
programs. Led by alumna Barbra Feldman (’82), the camp continues to make important contributions to the school and enrich the
community at-large.
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School enrollment increased 15% this past year as the Academy welcomed a number of students from China. The competition
among Chinese students for spots at top U.S. college-preparatory schools allowed us to carefully select those who will enrich
our community. The result has been an influx of students who bring academic rigor and a unique perspective to every aspect of
Academy life, from the classrooms and the cafeteria to theater productions and athletic competition.
We could not have chosen a more exciting time to usher in our school’s second century. We enter our centennial year a school
firmly rooted in its founding values, yet fluid in its adaptation to an ever-changing and more connected world. Students of seven
countries including every racial, religious and socio-economic background bring a diversity of ideas and perspectives that alumni
of my generation and those before could not have imagined.
As you will find in the pages of this publication—and in reflecting upon your own Academy experience—there is much to
celebrate, so join us this year. Speak to a class, attend one of the many social events you will be hearing about shortly, contact us
to learn how you can become involved with the Spring Fundraiser (April 29, 2013) or a Centennial event. Whether an alumnus,
parent, grandparent or parent of an alumnus, faculty member or friend, the Academy’s 100th year is an achievement that belongs
to us all.
Sincerely,
Peter Boneparth, ’76
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Veritas, Integritas, Servitium:
A Brief Academy History
Roots are planted (1912-1914)
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the needs of each student and the advancement of his
or her individual potential, and would be committed to
their intellectual and ethical development. They chose
to model the school after The Ethical Culture School in
New York City.
The year 1912 was marked by many historical events:
Fenway Park in Boston opened, the Republic of China
was established, the fifth Olympic games took place
in Stockholm and the Titanic embarked on its maiden
and, sadly, final voyage. Perhaps the most auspicious
event that year, at least for many residents of the Five
Towns area, was, owing to the persistence and diligence
of a handful of concerned parents, the establishment of
Woodmere Academy. It is interesting to trace the history of the
only non-sectarian Independent school that remains on the South
Shore of Long Island by its advancements through the decades.
The school’s motto
would be Disce
Servire – “Learn to
Serve.” The school
would serve the
community and
the students would
learn to serve their
school.
In 1912, a house located on Woodmere Boulevard and
Central Avenue was given to the founding parents to use
as a school rent-free. Mr. Lewis of The Ethical Culture School,
after much coaxing by these parents, agreed to “temporarily loan”
one of his best teachers, Margaret Brasor, to oversee the start-up of the
new school. Miss Brasor, the Academy’s first Headmistress, retired as
superintendent 20 years later.
In 1911, the one public school located in Hewlett was insufficient in
size to accommodate the area’s growing population and was sorely
lacking in qualified teachers. Unhappy with the less- than-ideal school
situation available to his children, Clarence G. Galston, a lawyer living
in Woodsburgh, sought to establish a school with higher educational
standards. Six other couples in the area were of the same mind and
the idea for the formation of a new private school for the Five Towns
vicinity was born.
“There were thirteen of them. The girls were starched and shining in
their middy blouses and pleated skirts. The boys, scrubbed and solemn,
wore Norfolk suits and high-button shoes. They were subdued, as they
filed into the little house at Woodmere Boulevard and Central Avenue,
where the three teachers awaited them. It was the first day of the first
grade – the first day in the life of Woodmere Academy. The month was
September. The year was 1912.”
–from a history compiled
in honor of the school’s 50th anniversary, in 1962
It was important to this group of parents that the school they were
planning would provide an environment that would take into account
Margaret D.
Brasor
Charles Burton Henry A.
Walsh
Dresser
Winston Bryant
Stephens
Thomas N.
Barrows
Horace M.
Perry
H e a dm a s t e r s
1912
19221924
1928
1933
1938
1958
Centennial Memories
“I remember Dave Harrower and his zest for teaching. He taught Evolution with such fire
that we were all captivated.”
Seymour “Bud” Rice, ’35W
Woodmere Academy started in the fall of 1912 with only three faculty
members, in a tiny house with five Kindergarten students and 13 first
grade students. It was determined that class size would be limited to 15
students. The school’s motto would be Disce Servire – “Learn to Serve.”
The school would serve the community and the students would learn
to serve their school.
In 1928, tragedy struck a young alumnus. John Hessel, the class
valedictorian, graduated that June and soon after drowned on a
summer trip. His parents donated funds for a much-needed auditorium
to be erected in his memory. The John H. Hessel Memorial Hall, which
seated 550 and had room for the Music Department, was built and
officially opened in 1929.
By its third year, WA’s enrollment increased to 67 and expansion
became necessary. The Board, comprised of nearly every parent of the
original 18 students, needed a new location for its growing school. A
decision was reached when John Burton Roberts of Woodmere Realty
Company donated two acres bordering Woodmere Boulevard.
In 1930, the Academy’s sports program also came into its own. Every
fall, students were required to try out for football or soccer; in the
spring, baseball or tennis. “Pop” LaRue was the beloved football coach
for many years and first in a line
of devoted, long-tenured Athletic
Directors who also coached,
including George Coleman (*09)
(who also served as a teacher
and administrator) and Jeff
“Spanky” Weiss, who continues
in the role today.
On May 23, 1914, thanks to donations and bond sales covering the cost
of construction, the cornerstone for the new Lower School was laid.
The brick building was home to eleven classrooms, an assembly room,
a manual training room, a library and an administration office. The new
school opened in the fall of 1914 to 67 children.
A reputation grows (1920s and 1930s)
In a short time, the school gained such a reputation for excellence
that parents were moving to the suburbs on the condition that their
child would be enrolled at WA. As a result, enrollment increased and a
Junior High School (grades 7 and 8) was added. After much planning
and fundraising, construction of a new Upper School, located directly
across the street from the Lower School, was completed and opened
in the fall of 1921. At that time, men taught Upper School and women
the Lower School. Mr. Charles Burton Walsh became the first Upper
School Headmaster, joined by the first Masters at the Upper School:
Mr. Etsweiler, Mr. Arnold, Mr. Harrower, and Mr. Perry. A year after the
Upper School opened, a gym was added and, by 1927, its enrollment
had grown to more than 100 students.
Myles K.
Ren
1958
Richard
Schroeder
1968
Philip
Valentine Havens
19741977
“…[The] Academy is a country
day school, and as such,
must assume responsibility for
furthering the physical, mental
and moral development of the
child. Throughout [one’s] years at the Academy, the student receives
the benefit of the sympathetic guidance of experienced teachers. For in
addition to the Academy’s policy of small classes with their advantage
of closer attention…Like a wise and thoughtful parent, the Academy
cultivates good study habits, thereby improving the capacity of the
student to cope with difficult intellectual tasks…and to cope with them
with a feeling of confidence and assurance.”
–from a 1947 Academy publication
Peter M.
Branch
Richard E.
Hanson, Jr.
1985
“…[The] Academy
is a country day
school, and as
such, must assume
responsibility
for furthering
the physical,
mental and moral
development of
the child.”
Dennis R.
Carroll
1994
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Alan
Bernstein
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2012
The Academy blossoms (mid-century)
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This was the era
of Civil Rights
and the students
formed a chapter
of the National
Conference of
Christians and Jews
to promote a better
understanding of
racial and religious
differences and to
combat prejudice.
In 1949, expansion again became a necessity, and Herbert Frankel, the
new Board President, held many fundraisers. The present cafeteria, a
new kitchen, additional classrooms and labs were built. The gym was
painted and remodeled and the balcony was removed and replaced
with folding bleachers with the capacity to seat 100. On the sports side,
football thrived at the Academy in the 1940s, with the Ethical Culture
Fieldston School (better known as “Fieldston”) as the Academy’s
greatest rival. The Upper School was remodeled in 1951 and the
Academy produced its most impressive run of National Merit Scholars,
graduating four every year for four consecutive years within that
decade.
The 1960s brought about a large amount of curriculum changes and
clubs. Visual art was reinforced as an elective in the Upper School
and a new art studio was built in Hessel Hall. A Speech and Drama
course was added and the Ham Radio Club had an official school radio
station. A First Aid Club for 4th, 5th and 6th graders was taught by the
school nurse. A typing course and a wrestling squad were also added
as well as new seminars for seniors in economics, the English novel
and math, “the fourth dimension.” This was the era of Civil Rights and
the students formed a chapter of the National Conference of Christians
and Jews to promote a better understanding of racial and religious
differences and to combat prejudice.
WA celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1962. A huge building project
to commemorate the occasion was kicked off with a groundbreaking
ceremony called Silver Shovel Day. The project consisted of additional
classrooms and a new, modern gym. More science labs were added as
well as a greenhouse for biology, a students’ rec room and the cafeteria
and library were expanded.
In 1967 the Lower School was also modernized with a new gym,
additional classrooms, the relocation and enlargement of offices and a
new, larger library.
In 1968, Headmaster Myles Ren made one of his top
priorities the construction of a Library-Learning Center. Saul
Steinberg pledged $365,000 and the late Robert B. Schwartz
and Mrs. Joseph Stein also made generous contributions toward this
effort along with alumni, parents and friends. On November 20, 1971,
with one thousand people in attendance, The Barbara Steinberg Learning
Center was dedicated and the following year won a design award.
Modern branches (1970s-1980s)
The Middle School was developed as a completely separate entity in
1978. Comprised of 6th, 7th and 8th graders, it had its own program and
faculty. The third floor of the Upper School building was designated
and renovated to accommodate this division. The Woodmere Academy
Summer Day program was also established in 1978 and continues to
grow today.
The 1980s saw many changes in programs and
facilities, including a new chemistry lab for the
science department, a Junior Seminar to aid
in the college application process, study halls
and formal mandatory mid-term exams for all
Upper School courses. Intramurals were added
to the sports program and in February of 1980
the school hosted a French exchange program.
Perhaps most important, by today’s standards,
was the new, expanded computer science program to help increase
computing proficiency among all students. By 1982, computer literacy
became a requirement for graduation.
In 1983, a local nursery school (Town and Country) joined with WA
and a Nursery program was established.
Homecoming 1983 introduced the Faculty Show,
which remains a tradition to this day. Another tradition was introduced when the WA Thanksgiving
celebration became the Harvest Festival, in which
senior citizens were invited to join students for a
lunchtime Thanksgiving meal while the school’s
Jazz Band performed. The Boys’ Varsity Soccer
team had its most successful run from fall 1982 to
fall 1983, with consecutive undefeated seasons.
Centennial Memories
“Rolfe Humphries taught Latin, but also taught us much more. He encouraged us to help those less fortunate
and to write poetry (his wife was Library of Congress Poet Laureate Louise Bogan).”
Rawley Apfelbaum Silver, ’35
Two great schools become one (1990s)
New flowers, deep roots
In 1990, Woodmere
Academy merged with
Lawrence Country Day
School (founded in 1891),
another well-respected
local private school, to
become Lawrence Country
Day School-Woodmere
Academy, with Richard E.
Hanson, Jr. as its Head.
In the 1990s, Israeli and Korean students began joining the Academy
community. We now have as many as 65 Israeli alumni and more
than 30 Korean alumni stretching from Tel Aviv to Daegu. Beginning
in 1999, the Academy saw an unprecedented period of success in its
Boys Varsity Basketball program, winning five State Championships in
eight years. In the 2000s, a Mandarin Chinese course was added to the
curriculum as part of a burgeoning commitment to preparing students
for a global marketplace by educating them in a global classroom. The
Academy now educates students from a total of seven countries (see
“Worldwide to Woodmere: Academy Today is a Global Classroom,”
page 12.)
While the Lawrence Country Day School only served students through
eighth grade before sending most on to the top boarding schools in the
Northeast, LCDS and WA had much to share. Each was founded by a
small group of local families looking for a more responsive education
for their children than the public schools could provide. The goal of
LCDS (originally known as the Lawrence School), as stated by the
Lawrence Association (its group of parent-founders) was to give the
children of the community “a wholesome, healthy, and happy place
in which to develop those qualities necessary for success in life.” Both
schools, during the course of their illustrious history, had devoted
themselves to academic rigor, the development of character and
personal integrity among their students, and a community-mindedness
that defines their legacies as well as their present as Lawrence
Woodmere Academy.
During the course of two years, the two schools and the Woodmere
Academy Lower School were consolidated into the Woodmere
Academy Upper School campus. Around this time, the WA mascot, an
often fang-and-claw-bearing wolverine, was succeeded by a barrelchested, prominently-chinned tiger,
a mascot more easily shared by the
youngest students. The color white
and the distinctive Academy blue
remain the school’s colors today. In
1995, LCDS-WA officially changed
its name to Lawrence Woodmere
Academy.
Today, Lower School students run a school store to learn marketing
and fiscal responsibility while raising money for worthy causes. An
international aid organization conducts hands-on workshops with
the Middle School each year, introducing our 5th-8th grade students
to humanitarian issues. Upper School students continue to serve the
community and beyond through a robust student-led community
service program and annual overnight Youth Service Opportunities
Project (YSOP) trips to New York City-based aid organizations.
Along with community service, the Academy remains dedicated to
college preparation. Now as in the past, Academy students graduate
with immense self-confidence, given their opportunities to cultivate
talents in everything from the arts to athletics. They possess an
intellectual curiosity fanned by the faculty’s keen interest in their
personal growth. Finally, they carry forward a self-knowledge born of
their interaction with the many unique perspectives and experiences of
their peers.
Just as alumni before them, today’s Academy graduates immerse
themselves in social and intellectual life at our nation’s colleges and
universities. If the past offers a precedent, upon graduating they will
funnel their passions into careers and family and lifelong intellectual
pursuits, all the while maintaining strong bonds to former teachers and
to their classmates, leading the Academy forth into a second century
destined to be as storied and inspiring as its first.
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Breaking Down Financial Barriers
The Academy’s Need-Based Scholarship Program Enriches Lives and Classrooms
The Academy has been providing financial assistance to deserving students who could not otherwise afford to attend since at least the late
1950s. Today, a significant number of students of different racial and geographic backgrounds receive need-based scholarships. We spoke
with three alumni beneficiaries of the program concerning its value and where their paths have led.
Forming Worldviews:
Greg Belinfanti (’92)
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Greg Belinfanti
(’92) is a managing director
at JP Morgan’s
private equity
arm
Greg Belinfanti (’92) just landed in New York following
a week of meetings across the Midwest. As a managing
partner for JP Morgan’s private investment arm, he
travels a lot. In a dry baritone voice, perfectly pitched for
executive board rooms nationwide, he fields questions
about who he was when he came to the Academy in
Sixth Grade (“A smart kid with a penchant for trouble
because I spoke too much”) and his experience as a
student-athlete (“Being better at sports made me better
at school because you needed a certain amount of
discipline to do both”).
Yet when the conversation turns to diversity, the Elmont, New Yorknative’s voice softens. “My kids go to a school today that’s not unlike the
Academy,” he says. “At an age when you don’t have a sense of what the
larger world is like, to see different perspectives and hear from people of
different backgrounds helps you form your view of what you want the
world to be.” Belinfanti credits the Academy’s individualized academic
program and the high expectations of its faculty members with helping to
prepare him for New York University and Harvard Law School.
Helping Students Take Off –
Jeffrey Rosendhal (’58)
Before he was making multimilliondollar decisions for the Galileo
mission to Jupiter as Chief Scientist
for NASA’s Office of Space Science,
and before he received his PhD in
Astronomy from Yale University
and his undergraduate degree from
Williams College, Jeffrey Rosendhal
(’58) was an extremely bright
student growing up in Queens,
New York. His father died when
he was 10 and his mother was just
getting by when he was offered
a full scholarship to the Academy
beginning with Ninth Grade.
Jeffrey Rosendhal (’58) (front row, third from the left), with
“In retrospect, the Academy did a
fellow participants in the first meeting of NASA’s Investigators
Working Group for the Spacelab 2 Mission, August 1977
splendid job of preparing me for
college,” says Rosendhal, who placed
into junior French as a freshman at Williams. He credits his rigorous Eleventh Grade English
class with helping him to eventually publish 85 scientific papers.
After teaching at a number of universities, Rosendhal made a 31-year career at NASA, first as
a staff scientist working on projects including the Hubble Space Telescope and eventually
making executive decisions concerning what scientific experiments would be attempted on
missions such as Galileo.
“You get a set of students that wouldn’t be able to come otherwise,” says Rosendhal of the
importance of a need-based scholarship program. “I think the socio-economic diversity does
bring in different viewpoints and different experiences.”
Encouraging Ambition
Dylan Phelan (’12)
To watch Dylan Phelan (’12) hold forth on the Sustainability
Club or the Science Bowl in front of 150 of his Upper
School peers at Headmaster’s Homeroom, you would have
difficulty believing he was a regular victim of bullying up
until the Sixth Grade. Yet that’s when Phelan came from
public school to the Academy’s Middle School on a needbased scholarship and began forming friendships with
students and faculty alike.
Dylan Phelan (’12) (second from left) as O’Brien in the stark, chilling
2012 Upper School production of “1984”.
“The most pivotal part of LWA’s environment, to me, is the
relationship you form with your teachers,” says Phelan.
“Becoming so close with the faculty helped me to develop
a love of learning. Learning is no longer a burden, but
an opportunity that I relish. I don’t think my educational
ambitions would be as strong as they are now otherwise.”
Among many other activities, Phelan played the lead in Upper School plays and musicals, became a staple during Headmaster’s
Homeroom student-announcements and, ultimately, class valedictorian. He is now a freshman at Tufts University balancing a
liberal arts education with his passion for psychology.
At an age when you don’t
have a sense of what the
larger world is like, to
see different perspectives
and hear from people of
different backgrounds
helps you form your view
of what you want the
world to be.
Belinfanti, Rosendhal and Phelan are three alumni among the many whose Academy education was made possible through
scholarship support, not only helping them to develop their sense of their own capabilities (Belinfanti), degree of collegepreparation (Rosendhal) and self-confidence (Phelan), but simultaneously enriching the intellectual and social discourse in the
classrooms and hallways as well as the perspectives of their peers. The Academy remains firmly committed to providing an
Academy education to deserving students regardless of their families’ means.
Centennial Memories
“Woodmere Academy had superior students and I was forced to compete with them. I rose to the occasion and have never regretted it.”
Richard Morton, ’43
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A Day in the Career
Externship program pairs students and alumni for job shadowing and mentorship
Amber Garrick (’13) thought it
would be years before she scrubbed
in and witnessed brain surgery, until
Dr. Michael Harris (’80), Chief of
Surgery and Surgical Services at NJ’s
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center,
brought her to the Operating Room.
“I watched the surgeon [a colleague of
Dr. Harris’] drill into the patient’s head,
put an implant in and sew him back up,”
remembers Amber. “I was almost giddy because I know there are a lot
of medical students who haven’t seen what I’ve seen.”
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Amber was one of five Academy students and alumni to pilot the
Academy Externship Program last June, which pairs students with
alumni in career fields of interest for a day of job shadowing and
mentorship. Among the inaugural hosts were alumni in medicine, law,
financial services, fashion design and magazine publishing.
Jenny Lu (’13) has been reading
Rolling Stone since developing
a passion for classic rock at an
early age. Her externship with
Aimee Schecter (’00), senior
manager for international licensing,
afforded her an inside look at both
the business and creative sides of
the magazine. Jenny sat in on calls,
including one addressing a product
placement issue for the magazine’s
Japanese edition, examined cover
designs and had the power of
celebrity underscored for her when
the TV show Mad Men’s John
Slattery visited the office for an interview.
Trying on career shoes
Nia Belton (’12) realized fashion isn’t all runways
and photo shoots during her externship with
Zara Zimmerman (’03), founder and designer of
handbag and accessories company Zara Terez, and
company vice-president Amanda Schabes (’04).
“Zara made me see how much hard work goes into a career in
fashion and design,” says Nia, who met with a fashion buyer, learned
about fabrics and helped prep merchandise. The experience opened
her eyes to fashion buying and merchandising as potential career paths.
“There is such a disconnect between formal education and reality,” says
Sam Blaustein (’99), associate attorney at Dunnington, Bartholow &
Miller, who introduced Cody Schwab (’13) to the inner workings of
the court system through visits to the criminal and civil courthouses.
“Even if it’s spending one day at a job, it can help a student formulate
an opinion as to whether it’s a career they want to pursue.”
Centennial Memories
“Mrs. Herrera’s hands-on approach to learning a language and her
talent for making students feel a part of that culture are qualities that
inspired me, motivated me, and stayed with me.”
Janna Palmquist, ’03
“I’m a better surgeon for having
studied Russian Literature”
One revelation for students was the idea that the path from high
school to a specific career isn’t always a straight line. “I am a much
better surgeon for having studied Russian Literature than if I had
taken another biology class,” Dr. Harris told Amber during her time
at the hospital. Jenny was surprised to learn that Ms. Schecter was
taking a gap-year before law school when she began her career in
the legal department at Rolling Stone seven years ago.
“I emphasized networking and that it’s not so important that you
know exactly what you want to do,” Ross A. Smith (’06), a
regional advisor consultant with OppenheimerFunds, told Trent
Parrish (’12) during an externship that included client phone calls
and career advice from Mr. Smith and his colleagues.
“I can give a day;
LWA gave me four years”
Given the success of the Academy Externship Program pilot, the Academy
hopes to recruit many more New York-area alumni hosts for its second year.
“I’m happy that there are people who want to spend time seeing what it is
that I do,” says Mr. Blaustein. “This program is a low-cost way to impart a
significant amount of knowledge to a young person.”
Mr. Smith agrees. “This is a great opportunity to pay it back to people who
are where you used to be.” He also found that his taking the time to mentor
a student impressed his colleagues.
“Even if it’s spending one
day at a job, it can help
a student formulate an
opinion as to whether it’s a
career they want to pursue.”
“It’s a very small time commitment and you never know what a student will
be able to get out of it,” says Ms. Schecter. “I can give a day; LWA gave me
four years.”
We are expanding the program this spring! If you are an alum and
would like to host an Academy extern, you can learn more and
complete the very brief application at www.LawrenceWoodmere.org/
externships.
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Worldwide to Woodmere
Academy Today is a Global Classroom
Meet six students who, drawn from afar by the Academy’s reputation for academic excellence, bring their global perspectives and unique
cultural fluencies to every classroom discussion and every extracurricular activity, helping prepare their peers (and themselves) to succeed in
an ever-smaller world.
Sharon Yang
Marjorye Santos
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Sao Paolo, Brazil
Sophomore Sharon Yang is the third of five children,
including older sisters Tiffany (’06) and Christine (’07),
to attend the Academy. She thinks it’s important for
international students not to be shy and says friends
back home are jealous of the fact that Academy
students do not wear uniforms. Sharon wishes she
could combine the weather of New York with the food
of Taiwan.
Ac t i v i t i e s :
Studio Art, Volleyball
Fashion Designer
C a r e e r A s p i r at i o n s :
Senior Marjorye Santos has wanted to study in the U.S.
since she was four years old. On her 15th birthday,
her parents relented, sending her to New York to live
with a distant relative before she found a home with
the Ahdieh family, whose daughter, Leilah (’14) was
already attending the Academy. “I always wanted to
improve my English and have a better education than
in Brazil,” says Marjorye. In transitioning to life in a
new country, she believes, “Everyone needs to learn
from their own mistakes—I changed my mind about
American teenagers. You have to open your heart to
new experiences and friends.”
academia
Taipei, Taiwan
Basketball, Dance, Mock Trial,
Multicultural Club (president), Peer-leadership, Soccer,
Softball, The Echo (editor)
C a r e e r A s p i r at i o n s : Ambassador, Diplomat
Lithuania
Romania
United States
Israel
Brazil
China
S. Korea
Taiwan
Centennial Memories
“I think one of the coolest things that happened while I was in school was that we had students from Taiwan. They were in class with us
and were treated no differently.”
Greg Belinfanti (’92)
Yuan Feng (“Tim”) Hu
Rokas Lapsys
Sophomore Tim Hu’s parents chose the Academy as the
place that would best position him for admittance to a
top American university. Tim has set his sights on the
University of Pennsylvania. “There is a lot of opportunity
at LWA,” he says. “If you want to improve yourself, the
teachers and other students here will help you.” He
prefers the American style of study, including taking notes
and then organizing them, to the rote memorization typical
in China. Tim is a passionate tennis player, and he and
teammates often discuss the sport’s growing popularity in
China versus its status in the U.S.
Vilnius, Lithuania
akademija
Hong Kong, China
“LWA has an interesting history in basketball,” says
senior Rokas Lapsys, referencing the Academy’s five state
championships in the past 15 years. He was drawn to the
U.S. and the Academy by the opportunity to play the sport
on a higher level. While Rokas (nicknamed “Rocky” by his
peers) is quick on the court, he says life in New York is ten
times faster than in Lithuania. Rokas finds a strong sense of
inclusion at the Academy, in contrast to movie depictions
of American high schools where the sports teams stick to
themselves. “At lunch, everyone sits together.”
Basketball, Soccer
Basketball player, coach
and manager
Basketball, French Club, Math Team, Tennis
A s p i r at i o n s : Architect
Career
Gili Yonatan
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Jaecheol Min
Raanana, Israel
Daegu, South Korea
Sophomore Gili Yonatan’s family, like many Israeli families
to have joined the Academy during the past 20 years, is
completing a four-year stint in the U.S. while her parents
work here for the Israeli government. Gili is undertaking
an especially rigorous course of study, condensing four
high school years into three and then completing a year of
college, which Israel considers high school equivalency,
before returning home for military service. “In Israel,
there are 30-40 students per class and one teacher teaches
almost everything,” she says. She likes that “this school is
so small that everyone knows everyone else.”
Baking Club, Soccer, Yom HaShoah Ceremony
Architect
“In Korea, when you become a junior, you must choose
between a Math/Science track and a History/Languages
track,” says senior Jaecheol Min, who began attending the
Academy in eighth grade. A U.S. history buff, Jaecheol
relishes the diverse course of study at the Academy and
plans to pursue a liberal arts undergraduate degree. He
has also enjoyed making friends of all ages, whereas in
Korea one must formally respect even those a year older.
Not yet a graduate, Jaecheol has already connected with
the Academy’s strong Korean alumni network; 12 of its
members reunited for lunch in Seoul in summer 2011.
Chorus, Math Team, Science Bowl, Soccer,
Tennis
entrepreneur
Third-generation manufacturing
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Alexa Blumenstock
2012
Brittney Loweree
Kacie Schiffer
Tyrone Nash
Caroline Boneparth
Michael Nelson
Douglas Taff
Zara Zimmerman
Kevin Mignone
Brendan Rojak
Opera Singer
Hannah Ahn
2011
Visual Artist
World Competition Skier
International Model
Professional Basketball Player
Two-time NCAA
Soccer Champion
Financial Analyst
Menswear Designer
Accessories Designer,
Entrepreneur
Sound Engineer-Entrepreneur
Soldier, Community Organizer
Victor LaValle
Lloyd Weinstein
Craig Sheflin
Carlton Fleming
Nisha Kumar
Aron Yagoda
Rob Weiss
Jesse Sheidlower
Michael Cohen
Adam Hoeflich
Barbra Barth Feldman
Creative Writing Professor,
Author
Attorney
Osteopath
Professional Baseball Player,
Entrepreneur
Business Executive
Matzah Mogul
Screenwriter, Producer
Wordsmith, Grammarian,
Editor
General Counsel to
Donald Trump
Attorney, Law Professor
Summer Day Camp Director
1990
1989
Sara Imershein
Joan Wallace-Benjamin
Ann Salpeter Shockett
Medical Doctor, Professor
Child Welfare Advocate,
Governor’s Chief-of-Staff
Politician
1972
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1989
2008
14
1971
Arthur Fagen
Martin Staff
Law School Dean
Orchestra Conductor
Designer Clothing Executive
1969
1989
2006
1987
2006
1985
2005
1985
2004
1985
2003
1984
2003
1982
2001
1982
Beginning with its first graduates in
alumni network has grown to repres
diverse cross-section of the world
and athletes to public servants, w
sampling of alumni across nine d
moment in time: their senior yearbo
1970
Michael Hoeflich
1969
2007
Years
1968
We scratched the surface of these
would just have soon lent each 1,00
dig deeper.
Jamie MacGuire
Elizabeth Glaser
Alan Blum
Richard LeFrak
Syd Golston
William “Riley” Jason
Frances Oguss Stallings
Karen Burstein
Steven Cahn
William Silver
James Grosfeld
School Administrator, Author
Activist, Pediatric AIDS
Foundation Founder
Doctor, Medical Professor,
Anti-Smoking Activist
Attorney, Developer
School Administrator, Author
Real Estate Executive,
Playwright
Author
NY State Senator, Judge
Philosophy Professor, Author
Financial Executive
Financial Executive
Leonard Rivkin
Herbert Frankel
Dr. Saul Frankel
Bob Wolff
Francis B. Haydock
Jack Bierwirth
Philanthropist
Florence Grossman
Lowenbraun
Harvey Robbins
Attorney, Author
Nancy Kringel
Osserman
Advertising Executive
Pilot, Commercial Banker
Broadcast Market
Research Director
Guiness World Record-holding
Broadcaster, Author
Business Executive,
Trade Mediator
Dr. Benjamin C.
Berliner
Occupational Therapist
Neurosurgeon, Clinical Surgery
Instructor
Natalie Barnett
Konheim
Hospital Recreational Therapy
Director
Pediatrician, Medical Professor,
Orchid Collector
1966
1943
1965
1943
1965
1941
1963
1941
1963
1940
1962
1939
1961
1938
1960
1938
1959
1938
1955
1935
1955
1935
Lauren Glaubach
Jamie Duneier
Reena Ghosh
Jamar McNeil
Jennifer Heetner
Jane Berkowitz
Gregory Siff
David Wirtenberg
Executive
Network Television Writer
Medical Doctor
DJ, Radio Host
Non-Profit Analyst
Teacher,
English Department Chair
Artist, Actor
E-commerce Innovator
Charles “Chuck” Tobin
Michael Harris
David Feldman
Richard Jacaruso
Marnie Geist
Peter Boneparth
Robin Wagner
Jill White
Neil D. Levin
Chief of Surgery
Attorney, Author
Katherine “Posie”
Van Rensselaer
Carpenter
Amy Rich
Lawyer, First Amendment and
Media Law Expert
Corporate & Foundation
Relations
Head of Cardiology
Linguist
Business Executive
Olympic Figure Skating Coach
Art Dealer
Executive Director,
Port Authority of NY and NJ
Andrew Kozinn
Nancy Kislik
Schoenberg
2000
1980
2000
1980
1999
1978
1997
1977
1997
1976
1997
1976
1995
1976
1995
1976
Elyssa Kreitzer Stern
1992
Entrepreneur, Author
1975
Gregory Belinfanti
Gary Noritz
Financial Executive
Medical Director, Professor
1992
1973
1991
1972
Healthcare Executive
n the spring of 1924, the Academy’s
sent an impressive and wonderfully
today. From authors to executives
we present here an equally diverse
decades, frozen in a quintessential
ook photo.
1970
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Alumni
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Patricia Messing
Wolfson
David Kessler
1969
1969
Attorney
FDA Commissioner, Author
Jack Feldman
Jake Burton Carpenter
Matthew Blank
Tony-Award Winning Broadway
Lyricist
Inventor, Winter Sports Mogul
Network Executive
1968
1968
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1968
Barry Gluck
Simon Charles Moss
David Bicks
Peter Zimmerman
Michael Pertschuk
E. Robert Goodkind
David Chesler
Stanley Mills
Robert Rosencrans
Jeffrey Aronin
1953
X-Ray and Neutron Scattering
Authority, Physics Professor
Attorney
Financial Services Executive
Head of Federal Trade
Commission, Attorney
Founding Chair of Jewish Fdn.
for the Righteous, Attorney
Physicist , Information Theorist
Army Radio Announcer,
Music Publisher
International Cable Company
Executive
Architect, Author, Lecturer
Advertising Executive
Army Intelligence Officer,
Salesman
Hal L. Harrison
Lucile Lebair Cardozo
Laurence Rosenthal
John Jacob Loeb
Kathryn Strouse Fine
Joseph Oettinger
Clarence Galston
W. Stephen Wolf
Sidney Hessel
Army Photographer
of General MacArthur,
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Editor, Mail-Order
Business Executive
Dr. Roy Nathaniel
Barnett
Navy Leutenant, Attorney,
Author of Armed Services
law manual
Composer, Author and
Songwriter of songs including
“Rosie the Riveter”
Management Consultant
Lawyer, Insurance Executive
Business Executive
Importer, Lepidopterist,
Discoverer of new
butterfly species
Linda Galston
Bensinger
1934
1953
1934
1952
1931
Doctor
1951
1929
1950
1929
1950
1929
Army Major, Flight Instructor
with Woman’s Airforce
Service Pilots
1950
1926
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1949
1925
1945
1924
1944
1924
Civic Leader, Philanthropist
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Class Notes
1930s
Myra Friedman Dubinsky ’31W passed away
this August at the age of 94. She leaves behind
three children, nine grandchildren and fourteen
great grandchildren, according to her daughter,
Peggy Dubinsky Price.
1940s
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Martin Fielding ’40W
often told his son about
his days as a three-sport
athlete at the Academy,
and how he gave his
three-letter Varsity
sweater to his brother
for safekeeping before
leaving for World War
II, and his brother lost
it. He even mentioned
Martin Fielding ’40
it in a speech at his 90th proudly displays his WA
baseball jersey
birthday party this past
August. Little did he know, among his birthday
gifts from his son, Rory, was a personalized
Woodmere Academy baseball jersey!
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Phil Gilbert ’44W lives in a retirement
community next-door to Longwood Gardens
outside of Philadelphia. He manages the
computer lab and services for the residents in
the community. Among Phil’s three children,
one is a teacher, one a social worker and one
a senior attorney with the SEC in Washington. Phil has remained in-touch with Allan
Shapiro ’44W, who wrote a book about the
establishment of Legal/political systems. You
can reach Phil at [email protected].
Marie Schloss Rautenberg ’45W tells us that
she has been enjoying living at The Amsterdam
at Harborside, the first life-care community in
Nassau County (Port Washington), NY for a year
and a half. “I have enjoyed theater in NYC and
on Long Island as well as museums, movies and
speakers who come here,” she says.
Marie spent a week in NYC last October with
Marilyn Fenton Wiener ’45W. They met
Malcolm Sheldon ’45W, Richard Hays ’45W
and Bob Rosencrans ’45W for brunch one
day; they all enjoyed themselves and hope
to do it again. She and Marilyn have been
reuniting for six years. “Last year, Marilyn, who
used to live in Sarasota, FL had the unexpected
surprise of seeing snow! I am once again
planning to meet Marilyn in NYC this fall. She
has recently moved to a life-care community in
Virginia near her daughter and likes it, too.”
1950s
Victoria Lewis Hobson ’56L is still living
in Paris, France with her husband, George, a
theologian, where she works as a translator.
They teach in seminaries all over the world most recently, Pakistan and Haiti.
Elaine Seiler ’58W published her first book and
its companion workbook on 11/11/11, MultiDimensional YOU: Exploring Energetic Evolution
& Your Multi-Dimensional Workbook, Exercises
in Energetic Awareness. Elaine has been
described as “being at the forefront of explaining
humanity’s ‘Energetic Evolution’ and how we
can cope and thrive in the face of this enormous
change.” She is currently working on a “30 Day
Self-Help Guide for successfully navigating the
energetic realms.” She is a mother, grandmother,
life and energetics coach. To learn more about
her books and the topic of “Energetics” please
visit www.TransformationEnergetics.com.
1960s
Riley Jason ’64W wrote, directed and starred
in a solo show called How Herman Commike
Saved My Life! at Stage Left, an Off-Off
Broadway house, and in three theater festivals.
“This has been a terrific experience for me.
Also, Herman’s daughter Ellen Commike
Schieren ’68W, attended one show, as did a
group from the class of ’64, which was very
moving.” On top of that, the entire creative
process was filmed for a documentary called
‘Solo’ by Shannon Romines, to be released this
fall.
Leslie Lomas ’67W received her Ph.D. in
History from the University of Colorado –
Boulder in August of 2010.
Michael Colby ’69W wants everyone to take a
look at his “new and improved web site:”
www.MichaelColby.com
Ruth Imershein ’69W shares that her daughter,
Deena Rosenberg, got married on 10/10/10 and
her son, David, graduated from Washington
College in May of 2010.
1970s
Ann Salpeter Schockett ’70W was elected
Executive Leader of the Woodmere area. Ann
has been integrally involved on the local
Centennial Memories
“I had a full-ticket, four-year scholarship to WA and couldn’t have possibly gotten such a wonderful education any other way.
I’m still grateful to have been given such an opportunity.”
Jeffrey D. Rosendhal , ’58
This photo
of Helen’s
Kindergarten class
adorned the cover
of an address
made by thenHeadmaster Horace
Perry in 1937
entitled, “College
Preparation Begins
at Six.”
From right-toleft, background:
Peter Dreyer,
[unidentified],
Eddie Van Raltt,
Joyce Schwartz
Pinke, Helen
Teschner Greene,
May Moss Abeloff,
Peggy Bernstein;
foreground:
Stanley Mills,
Florence Sack,
Robert Harris
and state levels in politics for over 30 years,
and is rebuilding the Woodmere GOP Club
to “make our community a strong voice in
government.”
Ellen Tanenbaum Arthur ’71W shares that
her daughter, Elizabeth Arthur, graduated from
the University of Vermont with a degree in
Economics in May. Ellen’s son, Jeffrey, now a
junior at Hobart William Smith College, plans
to spend his Spring semester in Budapest.
“I am still working as General Counsel for
Haidar Capital Management LLC, which
manages a macro-event driven fund that
returned over 50% in 2011.” Ellen lives in
New York City and says
"hi” to all of her WA
friends, many of whom
she is still in-touch with.
Tom Kramer ’72L
is a percussionist for
luminary Andraé Crouch.
Tom can be reached at:
[email protected].
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Tom Kramer ’72L
plays the beat
Dave Miga ’72W attended the Academy for just
one year, third grade, where he took woodshop
and discovered his talent for building and
engineering. His initial love of mahogany led
him to electronics, and Dave went on to build
the first wireless car alarm by adapting a CB
radio (in 1972) and the first digital doorbell
capable of playing
a preset tune.
His SemiAnalyzer
59 series is used
by companies
worldwide to
check electrical
component output
Dave Miga ’72W
levels.
Helen Teschner Greene ’49
Helen Teschner Greene (’49) lends the term “first in one’s class” new meaning. When her mother, a teacher in New York
City, moved the family from the city out to Cedarhurst so that Helen would have a safer place to begin her education, the
Academy did not yet have a pre-school. Helen’s mother founded the program, helping to hire its first teacher, and Helen was
one of five members of the inaugural class. It was the beginning of a relationship with the Academy and her classmates that
she treasures still today.
“We did everything together - the plays, the dances, the Glee Club,” Helen says of Academy students of the time. “There was
a cohesiveness, a camaraderie that was unbelievable. We always kept in-touch.” Helen remembers her classmates’ admiration
for faculty including Band Leader Herman Commike, Athletic Director Pop LaRue and Latin teacher Rolfe Humphries, and
their empathy when the latter two lost their sons.
Helen’s path took her to Cornell University and on to a career as an elementary school teacher, first on military bases while
her husband served and then in Garden City and Great Neck. She has two sons and six grandchildren, but her Academy
bonds endure. Helen has lunch with a number of her classmates on Long Island annually, if not more often, and also sees
fellow alumni in Palm Springs, California each winter.
Helen proudly keeps in touch with, among others: Renee Rauch Block ’50, Johanna “Jojo” Rosengarten Garfield ’49, Robert
Gelfman ’49, Theodore Ginsberg ’49, Muriel Herman Goldberger ’49, Irwin Goldberger ’49, Enid Goldenberg Harris ’49,
Robert Harris ’49, Edith Hornik-Beer ’49, Judith Haft Levick ’49, Stanley Mills ’49, Marie Schloss Rautenberg ’45, Meryle Cohen
Samuels ’49 and Joan Weiss Steingart ’49. “We talk about how amazing it is that we’re still such good friends,” she says.
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Centennial Memories
“I learned to work hard. Even more importantly, I learned to write. For six years, I never got to leave the house
on Sunday until that darn weekly essay was done.”
Hal Kwalwasser, ’64
Jeremy Epstein ’10 Asks
First Debate Question
With less than a month until
the election, the entire nation
was tuned in to the October
16th Second Presidential
Debate. Jeremy Epstein (’10)
asked the first question of
the candidates, challenging
President Obama and
Governor Romney on jobs as a
soon-to-be college graduate.
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Marni Geist ’76W works for the Defense
Language Institute in Monterey, CA, as a
linguist. Presently she is stationed at Fort Bragg,
NC and is working for four months in Stuttgart,
Germany. “My life is a wonderful journey.
Here’s to Madame Jacobus who insjpired me!”
Larry Langs ’78W and his wife, Anna,
welcomed a new son, Alexander Ethan Langs,
who is 19.5” long and a little more than 7
pounds. “He has very strong lungs, loves eating,
and passed his hearing test with flying colors.
Alex’s mother was amazing through the process
and is recovering nicely.” Rounding out the
family is big brother, Max.
Sheri Rosen ’78W is “doing great…living in
NYC and working on Wall Street.”
1980s
Linda Chinman Pollock ’80W says, “It was
very nice seeing some of my classmates at the
NYC get-together.” She owns several companies
in NJ and has a daughter attending Colgate
University. Her son will be attending Hobart
College in the fall. She and her family recently
moved back to Tenafly, NJ. She asks for her
classmates to reach her at pollocklc@gmail.
com “to catch up on what is happening in their
lives.”
Adam Hoeflich ’82W lives in Glencoe, IL with
his wife Denise and their two sons, Jacob and
Joshua. Adam practices law in Chicago and is
on the faculty at the University of Chicago Law
School where he teaches courses in Legal Ethics
and Complex Litigation.
Carlton Fleming ’89W, who played
professional baseball with the New York
Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals from 1992 to
1997, is working with the MLB and his partners
at Sports & Entertainment Partners (SEP) towards
launching a European professional baseball
league. He is extremely involved in the Tampa
community and sits on the Boards of Community
in Schools, Pasco County Take Stock in Children,
and the 100 Black Men of Tampa Bay.
1990s
Garey Noritz ’91 lives with his wife and “two
little girls” in Columbus, Ohio, where he is
Medical Director of the Complex Care Program
and Nationwide Children’s Hospital as well as
Associate Professor at Ohio State.
Marshall Berman ’95 joined Cooper-Horowitz,
Inc., a real estate financial advisory firm. He
helped honor former faculty member Shelley
Silbering during her Faculty Hall of Fame
induction ceremony in October.
Greg Siff ’95 successful actor and artist, traded
Russell Brand an original portrait he did of
the actor for a Shepard Fairey print. Mr. Brand
told Greg, “A signed Siff for a signed Fairey,
that seems like a fair trade, art for art!” Siff
will showcase his work at Art Basel’s Miami
Beach show December 6-9th. His work will
also appear in
Brad Furman’s
film “Runner,
Runner”
starring Justin
Timberlake and
Ben Affleck.
Eyal Hanan
Greg Siff ’95 trades art with
’99 spent
actor Russell Brand
five years in
the Israeli
Navy and now works as a Computer Network
Engineer at the Telecommunication Center
at Ben-Gurion International Airport. He has
traveled around the world and currently lives
right by Tel Aviv’s main beach. Eyal enjoyed
seeing fellow alumni at the Academy’s alumni
gathering in Tel Aviv on August 19th. “It was an
excellent oppurtunity to catch up with our close
LWA friends,” he says. “The evening had a very
special and nostalgic atmosphere.”
2000s
Shamire Pierre-Louis ’01 has an MS in
Speech-Language Pathology and is a practicing
licensed SLP. “Thanks to LWA!”
Robbie Brenner ’03 returned to the Academy
last year as Director of Development &
Alumni Relations after attending Northwestern
University’s journalism school, living in
Australia, travel-writing for Fodor’s guides in
Fiji, Australia, Finland and New York, and
working as a two-term AmeriCorps VISTA with
NYC public schools. He is directly responsible
for any typos or grammatical errors in this
publication.
Brandon Pender ’03 is working in the
Alumni Office of his alma mater, Massachusetts
College of Liberal Arts, as its Alumni Relations
Coordinator. He was one of many Boys’ Varsity
Basketball alumni and former college basketball
players to compete in the Alumni Basketball
Game on Thanksgiving Eve 2011.
Kyle Armstrong ’05 graduated from SUNY
Albany in May 2009 with a BS in Biology.
Amanda Lepelstat ’05 graduated from Mt.
Holyoke College in 2010 and interned at the
American Museum of Natural History as a Fossil
Preparator and at the Yale Peabody Museum.
She would like to become a paleontologist.
She was selected to do a presentation of her
original research in the field of paleontology at
the annual meeting of the Geological Society
of America in Denver this past October.
Her research will also be published in the
proceedings of the GSA.
Herry Pierre-Louis ’05 is currently pursuing
a Master’s Degree at Baruch College’s Zicklin
School of Business.
Jonathan Miller ’06 a graduate of SUNY
Maritime, took over the Towing Division of
Weeks Marine to support an emergency berm
project in connection with the BP oil spill in the
southwestern pass of Louisiana.
Max Shillalies ’07 son of (LWA art faculty)
Dawn and William Shillalies, received a
Bachelor of Arts Degree from Hamilton College
in May 2011, where he played four years of
varsity basketball. He majored in Economics
and minored in Philosophy, and is currently
working at Thomson Reuters. Sam Friedman ’08, Jason Kalikow ’08,
and Danielle Stathis ’08 recently cofounded
Market Network Agency, LLC, a “social selling”
software platform that combines the sales
and auction capabilities of Ebay with the
Professional network of LinkedIn. The company
seeks to connect business professionals across
industries with internal and external customers
and prospects in a single marketplace, and
has already begun talks with small businesses
and Fortune 500 companies in the banking,
real estate, construction, insurance, and food
and beverage
industries.
Danielle will
soon graduate
from Fairfield
University, Jason
just completed an
economics degree
at SUNY Albany,
and Sam has
“put college on
hold” to continue
Left-to-right: Daniel Paskoff,
developing the
Jason Kalikow ’08, Danielle
company.
Stathis ’08, Dylan Sirgiovanni
and Sam Friedman ’08.
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Front row: Eyal Shoham ’07, Edna Zion, Robbie Brenner ’03, Paul Baron ’03, Maya Dinar ’11, Stav Spinzi ’11;
Middle row: Tal Zion ’07, Einat Dror ’00, Yael Shoham ’00, Nirit Zagorsky ’01, Chen Shoham ’01, Keren Peer
Assis ’00, Guy Dinar ’04, Itay Dinar ’06; Back row: Shahar Daniel ’98, Hadar Karni ’98, Asaf Einav ’03, Tom Wolf
’00, Eyal Hanan ’99; Not pictured: Itay Shefer ’96, Kacie Schiffer ’07
First-Ever Alumni Event in Israel
On Sunday, August 19, the Academy hosted its first-ever international alumni gathering, in Tel Aviv! Alumni from
the classes of 1996 through 2011 came together for food, drinks, to share memories and to make future plans in a
private space at the hip and cozy Hamaoz bar in the heart of Tel Aviv.
Centennial Memories
“While Mme. Jacobus did not have children of her own, she had all of us, and we were
privileged to feel that commitment and love from her.”
Stacey Levenberg Abrahams, ’83
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Centennial Memories
“Messieur Quinche provided a life-long love of French language and culture. A very stern demeanor couldn’t always
hide a wicked twinkle in his eye and an enormous enthusiasm for what he was teaching.”
Jeffrey D. Rosendhal, ’58
Former Faculty
Dennis Carroll, former Headmaster Upper and
Middle School Director, and his wife, Carol, are
happily living in Palm Springs, CA. Semi-retired,
Dennis is entering his seventh year teaching
English to adults seeking their diplomas. He
finds the work rewarding as the students are
highly motivated. Carol does a great deal of
volunteer work at their church, including
working in the parish food program for the
indigent. Both play some golf, read a lot and
have made a number of friends in California.
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Dennis Carroll poses with trick-or-treaters
during his tenure as headmaster
Catherine Doheny Dente, former Head of the
Math Department, opened a new, geometrically
designed community vegetable garden in her
hometown of Sarasota FL. She welcomes
former students to explore Culverhouse
Community Garden on Facebook, and would
love for them to visit with her in Sarasota! She
can be reached at [email protected]
Jane Eisenstadt, former Middle School
Director, held the same role at the new
Claremont Preparatory School in Manhattan’s
financial district after leaving LWA in 2007. After
four years building and creating the Middle
School there, Jane spent the 2011-2012 year
traveling to Europe, Mexico and West Africa
(Benin, Togo and Burkina Faso), being a tourist
in NYC, and catching up on some of the many
tasks she had neglected. She looks forward
to another such “gap year” this year with
upcoming trips to Tunisia and Cuba.
Jill Gordon, former Spanish faculty, still
lives in Lawrence and works in her husband’s
dental office in Woodmere, “a big change from
teaching Spanish but something I enjoy.” Her
children are grown and doing well. Passing by
the Academy reminds her “of the great days
we had way back when and what a wonderful
place it was to teach.” She adds, “ I loved my
students, and the camaraderie and friendship
the faculty enjoyed was unique.”
Dick Hanson, former Headmaster, and his
wife, Cheryl, former Director of Development,
focus mostly on family, friends and travel,
and feel blessed that their children and
grandchildren reside near them in Vermont.
They recently visited Sicily, the Bahamas, St.
Martin’s, Mallorca, Guatemala and Sweden, and
Tai-an in Shandong Province, China, where
Dick’s grandfather arrived as a Methodist
missionary in 1903 to start a school, hospital
and church, and where his father was born at
the foot of Tai Shan, the sacred mountain.
Dr. Alan Hecht former science faculty at LWA,
recently completed his twelfth book, entitled,
Mumps. He wrote his first book, Polio, while
teaching at LWA.
Dan Isaacson, former math faculty, lives with
his wife, Marie, in the St. Andrews Estates
South Life-Care Community in Boca Raton.
He is deeply involved with the Palm Beach
County Democratic Party, writing, editing
and producing the Voice of the Palm Beach
Democratic Party newsletter, distributed to tens
of thousands of subscribers nationwide (those
wishing to see copies may find them at www.
pbcdemocraticparty.org). Dan recently crossed
paths with a former student, Ellen Dreyfuss.
Fletcher McNeill. former drama and history
faculty and Community Service Coordinator,
“still has fond memories of my years at
Woodmere” and thinks about many of his
former students. Fletcher teaches social studies
at the GreenMount School in Baltimore,
Maryland and two years ago started a service
learning program inspired by his years running
the Community Service Program at LWA.
Peter Meehan, former Director of
Development, moved on from LWA in 2004
to serve as Advancement Director at Bosque
School in Albuquerque, NM. He retired in 2011
to join his partner in expanding their business
interests in the Philippines. The two commute
between homes in New Mexico and Bacolod
City, Negros Occidental, Philippines. Arnie Schwartz is
enjoying retirement,
though he is still
a staple of the
LWA faculty show
and occasionally
substitute-teaches.
He says “hi” to
all of his former
students.
Arnie Schwartz takes
a turn as “Bosley” from
"Charlie's Angels" in the
2011 Faculty Show
In M e m o r i am
A LU M N I
FO R M E R F A C UL T Y
A l u mn i Ob i t u ar i e s
Clarence Galston ’26W
Ruth Kalb
•
(taught at WA 1943 – 1970)
Betty Harvey Slegman ’40W passed away on October 25, 2011 in Mission Hills,
Myra Friedman
Dubinsky ’31W
•
Peter Cardozo ’35W
•
Robert Kellner ’36W
•
Edward Adelberg ’38W
•
Francis B. Haydock ’38L
•
Betty Harvey Slegman ’40W
•
Emilie Jacobson Jacobi ’42W
•
Donald Axinn ’47W
•
Jane Lowenstein Sherman
Michaels ’51W
•
•
A LU M N I P A R E N T S
Nathan and Janet Barth
(parents of Rachele Barth
Tinkelman ’73W and Barbra Barth
Feldman ’82W)
•
Edward N. Carpenter
(former trustee and father/
stepfather of Katherine Carpenter
McCallum ’58L, the late George
Whitney Carpenter ’60L, Carolyn
Carpenter Wright ’65L, Jake Burton
Carpenter ’68L, Richard Owen
Carpenter, Stephen Owen Carpenter
’74L, Katharine “Posie” Owen
Carpenter ’77L, and Margaret
Carpenter Jones ’81L)
•
Hal Hersh
Helene “Chickie” Friedman
Hartman ’53W
(father of Jennifer ’92 and
Allison ’98)
•
Rose Rich
Gloria Rosof Corn ’65W
•
Harvey Greisman ’66W
•
Kenneth Weitzner ’74W
•
•
(mother of Jonathan ’64W,
Deborah ’67W, Amy ’76W)
•
Helen Schwartz
(mother of Corey ’95)
•
Andrew Bergner ’76W
Winifred J. Tanenbaum
•
(mother of Ellen Tanenbaum
Arthur ’71W, Cindy Tanenbaum
Simon ’75W, John Tanenbaum ’81W)
Allison Notter ’95
•
Tristan Campbell ’00
•
•
Theresa Weisel
Nicholas Vacchio ’06
(grandmother of Jen Weisel ’03)
KS.
Born in NYC, she grew up in Woodmere, attended WA and subsequently, the
University of Michigan. She became the editor of the women’s page of The Michigan
Daily, the only morning paper in Ann Arbor. She began working in the radio
division of the news department for United Press International in 1944. A piece
she wrote on the atom bomb led to her promotion to the features desk, and a later
assignment allowed her to experience first-hand, as a passenger, the record-breaking
transcontinental maiden flight of a new TWA plane, “The Constellation,” in 1946.
Marrying and raising a family did not stop her from being involved in many
political causes. She staunchly fought against hate groups such as The John Birch
Society, detested intolerance, and advocated for gun control. She served on the
boards of several worthwhile organizations including the Girl Scouts and the YWCA,
and was a founding member of Kansas City Young Audiences and co-founder of
The New Reform Temple.
Slegman is survived by her second husband, three children (and their spouses),
and five grandchildren as well as many extended family members.
Emilie Jacobson (Jacobi) ’42W died April 15, 2010 as a result of complications
from pneumonia. She was 85 years old and lived in Manhattan. Emmy was a literary
agent who joined Curtis Brown, Ltd, a prominent literary agency, in 1946 almost
immediately after graduating from Radcliffe College. Although she had announced
her impending retirement for later this spring, she was still working at Curtis Brown
at the time of her death.
Among her lengthy roster of distinguished writers over the last 64 years were
Martin Mayer, Betty Friedan, Ann Edwards, Daphne du Maurier, William Golding,
C.P. Snow, Ogden Nash, Rumer Godden, Elizabeth Bowen and David Lodge.
She often reminisced about her years at Woodmere, where she attended both
elementary and high school, and where she particularly remembered Latin teacher
and horse-race enthusiast Rolfe Humphries and French professor Monsieur Quinche.
She was married for 48 years to Fritz Jacobi, a writer and editor.
Simon Charles Moss ’52W Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of
Houston, died of a heart attack at his home in Houston, TX on March 14, 2011. He
was one of the world’s foremost authorities on using x-ray and neutron scattering
as probes of order and disorder in matter. For more information on the life of this
brilliant alum, please visit his biography at PhysicsToday.org
Obituaries printed with permission of family members.
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Annual Giving Report 2011-2012
Annual Giving 2011-2012
A nn u a l F u n d
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Alumni
$114,228.72
Parents
$68,455.00
Alumni Parents & Grandparents
$10,562.00
Past & Present Faculty/Staff & Friends
$20,372.97
Corporations & Foundations $74,147.29
Auction
$30,148.07
Spring Fundraiser including Golf Outing $85,273.51
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G i f t s t o En d o w e d F u n d s
Centennial Memories
“Mark Parrott, English teacher and lifetime correspondent, was the model
of an intellectual and a humanist…He lectured like a fascinating college
professor; in fact, only a few of my college professors were as good.”
Josh DeBare Scholarship Fund
Michael R. Taylor Scholarship Fund
$450.00
$2,000.00
Sp e c i a l Sc h o l ar s h i p F u n d $32,298.10
Syd Golston, ’67W
All Gifts Grand Total $437,584.66
Thank you to our donors:
A ca d e m y C i rc l e
$10,000 +
Anonymous (1)
Mr. and Mrs. Shahin Ahdieh +
Mr. and Mrs. Niall Alli +
Mr. and Mrs. Jay D. Arnow
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Boneparth +
Mr. a nd Mrs. Michael K. Clark +
Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Fay +
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Iannelli +
Mrs. Helen Lyttle Kimmel +
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne T. Miller
Mr. Leonard Rivkin +
Gary Saltz Foundation, Inc.
Margaret Sorensen Charitable Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Tisch +
H e a d ma s t e r s C l u b
$2,000 – $9,999
Anonymous (1)
Mr. Matthew Blank +
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Boas
Mr. James Buxbaum
Class of ’50W Scholarship Fund
Mr. and Mrs. George Coleman
Deutsche Bank
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Eigen +
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Glazer +
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hammerman +
Mr. and Mrs. Yong Hu
Mr. Antoni and
Dr. Joanna Kowalewski +
L.W.A. Parent Association
Mr. and Mrs. Peiging Lin
Mrs. Edith Williams MacGuire
Dr. and Mrs. Solomon Osei
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Rifkin
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Shlomm +
Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Siegel
Mr. and Mrs. Agostino Vona
Mr. and Mrs. Jianyu Wang
Mr. Lloyd Weinstein, Esq.
P ar e nt G i v i ng
b y C l a s s Y e ar
Upp e r Sc h o o l
P ar e nt G i v e r s
C l a s s o f 2 012 –
Seniors
Mr. and Mrs. Nkwa Asonye
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Berry
Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Blumenstock
Mr. and Ms. Michael Ellowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Greene
Mr. and Mrs. W. Anywar KwaMogi
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Levy
Ms. Raeshon Peake-Parrish
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Phelan
Ms. Ann Schindler
C l a s s o f 2 013 –
Juniors
Mr. and Mrs. Nathanael Berry
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Funderburke
Drs. Karen and Barry Goldberg +
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Liebenberg
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Lundenberg
Mrs. Myriam Turnier
Mr. Clifford A. Ulrich
Ms. Tanya Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Jianyu Wang
C l a s s o f 2 014 –
Sophomores
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Benanti
Mrs. Lucetta Ebanks
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Engelman
Dr. and Mrs. Lisandro Irizarry
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Levitt
Mr. and Mrs. Jacek Lipiec
Mr. and Mrs. James Philemy
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Rhabb
Mrs. Beverlyn Richards
Mr. and Mrs. Chengfeng Tian
Mrs. Myriam Turnier
C l a s s o f 2 015 –
Fr e s h m e n
Ms. Tricia Douglas
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Flum
Ms. Kimberly Frost
Mr. Juan Goodridge
Mr. and Mrs. Yong Hu
Mr. Antoni and Dr.
Joanna Kowalewski +
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Liebenberg
Mr. and Mrs. Peiging Lin
Dr. and Mrs. William Urban, Jr.
M i d d l e Sc h o o l
C l a s s o f 2 016 –
E i g h t h G ra d e
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Agueci
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Berry
Mr. and Mrs. Jose A. Cruz
Dr. and Mrs. Lisandro Irizarry
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kostinsky
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin J. Ross
Mr. and Mrs. Yuzhang Shi
Mr. James Zampino & Ms. Alicia Dunn
C l a s s o f 2 017 –
S e v e nt h G ra d e
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Benanti
Ms. Cori Bopp
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Collie
Mr. V. Gerbino and Mrs. M. Amato +
Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Meyerson
Mr. and Mrs. James Philemy
Mr. Edward Reitler
C l a s s o f 2 018 –
S i x t h G ra d e
Ms. Maria Colon
Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Meyerson
Ms. Jennifer Udvadia
+ indicates Centennial Campaign Founders. Emboldened names indicate at least five consecutive years of giving.
Mr. and Mrs. Burton Warren
C l a s s o f 2 019 –
F i f t h G ra d e
Mr. and Mrs. William LaPaugh
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Phelan
L o w e r Sc h o o l
Class of 2020 –
F o u rt h G ra d e
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Boyland
Mrs. Judeth Jarrett-Dickson
Mr. and Mrs. David Feldman
Ms. Beverly Ann Fox
Mr. and Mrs. William LaPaugh
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pellett
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shebar
C l a s s o f 2 0 21 –
T h i r d G ra d e
Mr. and Mrs. Lorin W. Clark
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin J. Ross
Class of 2022–
S e c o n d G ra d e
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Finkelstein
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Orlep
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shebar
Class of 2023–
F i r s t G ra d e
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Boyland
Ms. Stacey Greengold
Class of 2024 –
K i n d e rgart e n
Mr. and Mrs. Jay D. Arnow
Mr. and Mrs. Lorin W. Clark
Mr. and Mrs. Danny Newell
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Dr. Ivan King ’44W
Mr. James Buxbaum ’45W
Mrs. Joyce Oberman Goldfeder ’45W
Mrs. Marie Schloss Rautenberg ’45W
Mr. Robert Rosencrans ’45W
Mr. Roger Harvey ’47W
Mr. Paul Milgrim ’47W
Mrs. Margaret Owen Carpenter ’48L
Mrs. Patricia Coe Emery ’48L
Dr. Robert Hirsch ’48W
Mrs. Johanna Rosengarten Garfield ’49W
Mrs. Helen Teschner Greene ’49W
Mrs. Meryle Cohen Samuels ’49W
Mrs. Renee Miller Tyroler ’49W
19 5 0 s
Dr. and Mrs. Solomon Osei
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rejtig
Dr. Raz Winiarsky and Dr. Arlyn Apollo
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Class of 2025–
P r e ‑Sc h o o l
Mr. and Mrs. Niall Alli +
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O’Callaghan
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Reitler
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Sheflin
A l u mn i /a e G i v i ng
by C l a ss
19 3 0 s
Mrs. Marjorie Handy Nichols ’34L
Mr. Shelby Page ’35L
Mrs. Mary Allison Millett ’36L
Mr. John C. Bierwirth ’38L
Mrs. Helen Lyttle Kimmel ’38W +
Mrs. Anita Appel Rolnick ’38W
19 4 0 s
Mrs. Helen Maitland Corroon ’41L
Mrs. Leeanne Gwynne MacColl ’41L
Mr. Thomas H. Ackerman ’42W
Mr. Martin Berkowitz ’43W
Mr. Franklin Milgrim ’43W
Mr. Leonard Rivkin ’43W +
Class of ’50W Scholarship Fund
Mrs. Judith Perlberg Chasanoff ’51W
Mr. Frank Porter ’51L
Mr. Arnold Goldbaum ’52W
Mrs. Toni Holland Liebman ’52W
Dr. Myrna Baldinger ’53W
Mr. Donald Boas ’53W
Mrs. Patricia Curley Gannon ’54L
Mr. Kenneth Mayers ’54W
Mr. John Roberts ’54W
Mr. Thomas Crystal ’55W
Mr. Alan Kahn ’55W
Mrs. Jill Davidson Krueger ’55W
Mr. William Silver ’55W
Mrs. Gail Goodman Schulhoff ’56W
Dr. George Mallis ’57W
Mrs. Katherine Carpenter McCallum ’58L
Dr. John Greenman ’58W
Mr. and Mrs. James Thayer ’58L +
Dr. Steven Cahn ’59W
Dr. Michael Kligfeld ’59W
Mr. Robert Rosenberg ’59W
Mr. Harold Spitzer ’59W
19 6 0 s
Hon. Karen Burstein ’60W
Dr. Barbara Davis Rosenberg ’60W
Mr. Daniel Davis ’61W
Mr. Sandy Feldman ’61W
Mr. Kenneth Grossman ’61W
Mr. Stewart Kahn ’61W
Mrs. Lucy Chanin Katz ’61W
Mr. Andrew Koeppel ’61W
Mrs. Susan Rein Kraut ’61W
Mr. Michael Levitt ’61W
Mr. Peter Rosmarin ’61W
Mrs. Vicki Leeds Tananbaum ’61W
Ms. NancyBell Coe ’62L
Mrs. Arlene Oltchick Gilbert ’62W
Mr. Laurence Gilbert ’62W
Mrs. Carolyn Hewlett Knight ’62L
Mr. Bernard Sencer ’62W
Mr. Joseph Michaels, IV ’63W
Dr. Paul Simon ’63W
Mrs. Marjorie Rein Schlosberg ’64W
Mr. Steven Shore ’64W
Mr. David Kirshman ’65W
Mrs. Marion Bierwirth Woolam ’65L
Mrs. Carolyn Carpenter Wright ’65L
Mrs. Margaret Kosches Keyes ’66W
Ms Barbara L. Wisch, Ph.D. ’66W
Ms. Marge Goldwater ’67W
Mr. Mark Helman ’67W
Mrs. Leslie Singer Lomas ’67W
Dr. Deborah Rich ’67W +
Mr. Matthew Blank ’68W +
Mr. Jake Carpenter ’68L
Mr. Robert Plattner ’68W
Mrs. Ellen Commike Schieren ’68W
Dr. Ruth Imershein ’69W
Dr. Fred Kastenbaum ’69W
Mrs. Lauri Rosmarin-Plattner ’69W
Mrs. Virginia Orzac Secemsky ’69W
Dr. Michael Seider ’69W
19 7 0 s
Mrs. Judith Imershein Kahan ’70W
Mr. Stanley Levin ’70W
Mrs. Ellen Tanenbaum Arthur ’71W
Dr. Cathy Lore ’71W
Mr. Mark Fratkin ’72W
Dr. Sara Imershein ’72W
Ms. Andrea Warshaw-Deitch ’73W
Mrs. Laurie Zucker Lederman ’74W
Mr. Eliot Schreiber ’74W
Mr Robert E. Wallace Jr. ’74W
Mrs. Karen Spigner Case ’75W
Mr. Stephen Chasanoff ’75W
Mr. David Lanter ’75W
Mr. Ira Rubinfeld ’75W
Mr. Peter Boneparth ’76W +
Ms. Marni Geist ’76W
Mr. Peter Grossman ’76W
Ms. Amy Rich ’76W +
Dr. James Roberts ’76W
Ms. Katharine Owen Carpenter ’77L
Mr. Roger Leavy ’77W
Mr. David Feldman ’78W
Mr. William Haas ’78W
Mrs. Lisa Weinbeg Lanter ’78W
Ms. Sheri Rosen ’78W
Mr. Steven Wax ’78W
Mr. Robert Chasanoff ’79W
19 8 0 s
Mrs. Linda Chinman Pollock ’80W
Mrs. Barbra Barth Feldman ’82W
Mr. Bradley Golden ’82W
Mr. David Wind ’83W
Mrs. Victoria Herrera Hirsch ’84W
Mr. Peter Kapner ’85W
Mrs. Jodi Singer Herzig ’86W
Mrs. Jodi Modlin Knurr ’86W
Mrs. Karen Leffler Koeppel ’86W
Mrs. Jodi Nathan Linder ’86W
Mrs. Jacqueline Yarvis Schechter ’86W
Mrs. Sharon Margolies Siegel ’86W
Mr. Matthew Strahl ’86W
Mr. Todd Richman ’87W
Mr. Niall Alli ’88L +
Mr. Lloyd Weinstein ’89W
19 9 0 s
Mrs. Shawne Berlin Kanter ’90W +
Mr. Steven Rosenberg ’90W
Mrs. Elizabeth Stern Tisch ’90W +
Dr. Garey Noritz ’91
Ms. Karin Bilich ’92
Mrs. Adrienne Mehltretter Alli ’94
Dr. Claudine Lombardi Higdon ’94
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Sheflin ’94
Mr. Marshall D. Berman ’95
Mr. Keith Cacciola ’95
Mr. David J. Wirtenberg ’95
Ms. Judita Eisenberger ’96
Mr. Jordan S. Feivelson ’96
Mrs. Gena Gordon Pruetz ’96
Ms. Aysha Ghadiali ’97
Ms. Reena M. Ghosh ’99
2000s
Mr. Andrew B. Prussack ’00
Dr. Geraldine Abbey-Mensah ’02
Ms. Jackie Benowitz ’02
Mr. Eliran Foular ’02
Mr. Matthew G. Sachs ’02
Mr. Robert D. Brenner ’03
Mr. Douglas Taff ’04
Mr. Russel J. Levin ’06
Ms. Lindsay Breslauer ’07
Mr. Stephen Green ’07
Class of 2012
Centennial Memories
“I remember the effectiveness with which Herman Commike formed and directed the concert band.”
Steven Cahn, ’59
A l u mn i P ar e nt s &
G ran d par e nt s
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Ackerman
Mrs. Roslyn Armstrong
Mr. and Mrs. Nkwa Asonye
Dr. and Mrs. Alan Baum
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Bernstein
Mr. John C. Bierwirth
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Boneparth +
Mrs. Ginny Breslauer
Mrs. Margaret Carpenter
Mrs. Judith Chasanoff
Mr. and Mrs. Michael K. Clark +
Mr. and Mrs. James Confino +
Mrs. Helen Maitland Corroon
Mr. and Mrs. Michael DeBare
Mr. and Mrs. Henri Demers
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Edwards
Mr. and Mrs. John Emery
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Greenseid
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hammerman +
Ms. Janice Taylor and
Mr. Elliott Hardie
Mr. and Mrs. Errington W. Hibbert
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Komisarow
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Lane +
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Lundenberg
Mrs. Edith Williams MacGuire
Mr. and Mrs. Eric Schiffer
Mr. and Mrs. William Shillalies
Mrs. Myriam Turnier
Mr. and Mrs. John Udell
P a s t & P r e s e nt
Fac u l t y/ Sta f f &
Fr i e n d s
Mr. Alexander Altieri
Mrs. Mary Anne Amato +
Mr. Alan Bernstein
Ms. Karin Bilich
BMW CCA/New York Chapter, Inc.
Mr. James C. Bogdan
Mr. Robert D. Brenner
Ms. Hydee Bressler
Mr. Keith Cacciola
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Carroll
Mr. Michael N. Cohn
Mr. and Mrs. George Coleman
Mrs. Yolanda D’Antonio
Dr. Alexander Dillon
Mr. Douglas Ebert
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Elukin
Mrs. Marguerite Engelman
Mrs. Barbra Feldman
Mrs Laury Fishman
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Frank
Ms. Shara Freeman
Mrs Roslyn Friedman
Mrs. Sherri Fromowitz
Ms. Marni Geist
Mr. Jeff Gittleson
Mrs. Kathleen Glasberg
Mrs. Elizabeth Glazer +
Ms. Michelle Gold
Ms. Stacey Greengold
Ms. Keri Groh
Mrs. Denice Halpern
Mrs. Dioclis Hernandez
The Estate of Evelyn Hoyer
Mr. Marc Hoyle
Mrs. Ellen Komisarow
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Lanfear
Mrs. Susan Lettieri
Mrs. Adrienne Levine
Ms. Donna Linton
Lower School Faculty Sunshine Club
Ms. Laura Maffei
Mr. Philip Mann
Mr. Stuart Margolies
Mrs. Colette B. Marzouk
Mrs. Marisa Mayer
Mr. Daniel McMenamin
Middle School Faculty Sunshine Club
Mrs. Meghan O’Callaghan
Ms. Melissa Oddo
Mrs. Debra Orlep
Ms. Elizabeth Palisoc
Mrs. Randi Pellett
Mrs. Bonnie Pinkow
Mr. Mark Pirouet
Mr. Kristofer Pischel
Progressive Energy LLC
Mrs. Mary Sakowich
Mr. Ron Saltz
Mr. Bradley Scalise
Mr. Robert L. Schaefer, Jr.
Ms. Stefanie Schaller and Mr. Adam Welt
Mrs. Judi Schiffer
Mr. Arnold Schwartz
Mrs. Allison Shebar
Mrs. Stefanie Sheflin
Mrs. Dawn Shillalies
Mrs. Shelley Silbering
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Tisch +
Mr. Louis Tolentino
Ms. Yu Shan (Patricia) Tsai
Mrs. Marge Udell
Mr. Victor Valentin
Mr. Jeff Weiss
C o rp o rat i o n s ,
F o u n d at i o n s &
Businesses
ABAX, Inc.
Able Rigging Contractors Inc.
Abramowitz & Cohen CPAs
Acme Stage & Sports Specialties, Inc.
Angelo’s Power Washing
ATJ Electrical
Atlas Fence Corp.
Baby Bump on Board.com
Baybrent Construction
Bella Bus Corp.
Bird Bus Sales
Bishop Ford
Bisogno Meyerson
Blizzard Mechanical
BMW CCA/New York Chapter, Inc.
Brake Service, Inc.
Brooklyn Transportation Corp.
Bruno, Gerbino & Soriano LLP
Buffalo Jeans
Callaghan Lucerino & Assoc. LLP
Call-A-Head
Cedric Construction Corp.
Certified Interiors, Inc.
LJ Cerullo, Inc.
John Ciardullo Asociates
City & County Paving
Citywide Environmental
Claridan Contracting, Inc.
Cleaning Contractors Corp.
CMC Interactive
Complex Coverage Mgmt.
Creative Finishes, Ltd.
Crown Waterproofing Inc.
Deutsche Bank
Eagle One Roofing Contractors, Inc.
Albert Eigen, CPA
Annett C. Ellis Realty
Empire Paratransit
Feinstein Iron Works
Five Star Electric Corp.
Forsythe Plumbing & Heating
The Garvin Group
Google Matching Gifts Program
Grade A Petroleum Corp.
Hart Insulation Inc.
Iannelli Construction Co.
Jordan Construction Products Corp.
Kel-Tech Construction Inc.
The Helen Kimmel Foundation +
Kings Building Materials
KM Productions
Lands End Preferred School Program
LCJ Associates, Inc.
Loweree Construction Co. Inc.
LPL Financial
Mike’s Heavy Duty Towing
Montrose Surveying Co. LLP
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Morstan General Agency
Nationwide Auto Painting, Ic.
The North Face
Nunez Electric
Nu-Tech Products, Inc.
Ocean Harbor Insurance Group
Osei-Kwakye OB/Gyn, P.C.
Park Avenue Bldg. & Roofing Supplies
Pride Equipment Corp.
Pride Transportation Inc.
Port Motors Lincoln Mercury Inc.
Route 23 Auto Mall, LLC
Rubin & Licatesi P.C.
Runway Tire Service Co. Inc.
Gary Saltz Foundation, Inc.
Schwartz & Fang
Sofia Cashmere
Specialized Storage Systems, Inc.
Margaret Sorensen Charitable Trust
Strategies for Wealth
Superior Distributors
Tomco Mechanical
Total Safety Consulting
Total Transportation Corp.
Tri-State Dismantling Corp.
The Truck & Bus Stop
Tru-Value Electric
Vona & Vona LLP
Wallabout Trading
The Weinstein Group, P.C.
Whitey’s Tire
USI Insurance Services LLC
J o s h D e B ar e
Sc h o l ar s h i p F u n d
Ms. Jackie Benowitz
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A rn o l d Sc h w art z
Stag e & H e s s e l Ha l l
P i an o R e f u rb i s h m e nt
Fund
Mr. Philip Mann
Ms. Stefanie Schaller and Mr. Adam Welt
La w r e nc e R i f k i n
M e m o r i a l F u n d
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Mrs. Laury Fishman
Lower School Faculty Sunshine Club
Middle School Faculty Sunshine Club
Mr. and Mrs. John Udell
Mr. and Mrs. Burton Warren
Upp e r Sc h o o l Drama
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Greene
Ha l M i l l e r W e i n s t e i n
Fund
Mrs. Jodi Singer Herzig
Mr. Peter Kapner
Mrs. Jodi Modlin Knurr
Mrs. Karen Leffler Koeppel
Mrs. Jodi Nathan Linder
Mrs. Jacqueline Yarvis Schechter
Mr. Matthew Strahl
MEMORIAL AND
HO N O R A R Y G IF T S
( 2 01 0 - 2 011 &
2 011 – 2 012 )
M i c h a e l R . T ay l o r
Sc h o l ar s h i p F u n d
In Memory of Mr. Samuel and
Mrs. Patricia Aguilar
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boyland
Mr. Peter Grossman
Dr. and Mrs. James Roberts
P atr i c i a L o p i n
Berliner Fund for
C u l t u ra l A rt s
Mr. William Berliner
T r i s tan T u rn i e r F u n d
Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Blumenstock
Mr. Douglas Ebert
Drs. Karen and Barry Goldberg +
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Komisarow
Mr. Antoni and Dr. Joanna
Kowalewski +
The Middle School Sunshine Club
Ms. Raeshon Peake-Parrish
Ms. Ann Schindler
Mrs. Myriam Turnier
Ms. Tanya Walker
Mrs. Victoria Herrera Hirsch
In Memory of Kyle Arnow’s (’24)
Uncle
LWA Lower School Faculty
In Memory of Dr. Nathan Barth
(Father of Barbra Barth Feldman
’82W & Rachele Barth Tinkelman
’73W)
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boyland
Mrs. Laury Fishman
Mrs. Susan Lettieri
Mr. John Rivkin
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rivkin +
In Memory of Janet Barth (Mother
of Barbra Barth Feldman ’82W &
Rachele Barth Tinkelman ’73W)
The Breslauer Family
(Ginny, Lindsay, and Kimberly)
Mrs. Bonnie Pinkow
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rivkin +
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Sheflin
In Memory of Frances Usdan
Berkowitz ’51W
Mrs. Joyce Loewenthal West ’51W
In Memory of Patricia Lopin
Berliner
Mr. I. Robert Harris ’49W and
Mrs. Enid (Goldenberg) Harris ’49W
In Memory of Spenser Berry’s ’12
and Jordan Berry’s ’16 uncle
In Memory of Spenser Berry’s
’12 and Jordan Berry’s ’16
grandfather
The Pellett Family
In Memory of Peter Boneparth’s
’76W Father
In Honor of the Boys’ Varsity
Basketball Team
Mr. Keith Cacciola ’95
In Memory of Tristan Campbell ’00
Mr. Arnie Schwartz
In Memory of Claire Cardell
(DeBare Fund)
In Honor of Tim Carpenter
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Carpenter ’68L
Mrs. Carolyn Carpenter Wright ’65L
In Memory of Tim Carpenter
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Carpenter ’68L
Mrs. Laury Fishman
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Glickman
In Memory of Franklin Carter
Mrs. Johanna Garfield ’49W
In Memory of Richard Cayne’s
Mother
In Memory of Mike Cohn’s
Grandmother
Mrs. Laury Fishman
Lower School Faculty
In Memory of Colleen Collie’s father
In Memory of Josh DeBare ’02
(DeBare Fund)
Ms Jackie Benowitz ’02
Ms. Nicole DeBare and Mr. John Villani
Ms. Lois Fisch
Mr. Philip Mann
Mr. Stu Margolies
Dr. Sherry and Mr. Stuart Radowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Slutsky
In Memory of Nicole DeBare’s
Marriage to John Villani (DeBare
Fund)
In Memory of Peter Dellipizzi
(DeBare Fund)
In Honor of Philippe Demers ’08
Graduation from Franklin &
Marshall
In Memory of Joan Feldman
In Memory of Shirley Sunshine
Feldman (DeBare Fund)
In Memory of Steven Fischthal’s
Mother (Alex Fischthal’s ’17
Grandmother)
Mrs. Laury Fishman
In Memory of Jaiden Fox’s ’20
Grandfather
In Memory of Barry Goldberg’s
Mother
In Memory of Nettie Goodman
(DeBare Fund)
In Memory of Ann Gottlieb (Alexa
Blumenstock’s ’12 grandmother)
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Blumenstock
Centennial Memories
“Mr. Carter organized regular after-class sessions in current events in which I loved participating.”
Sanford E. Wolf, ’49
In Memory of Kyle Gower’s ’16
Grandmother
In Memory of Donald Luke
(Savannah Luke’s ’14 father)
In Memory of Sol Grebin
(DeBare Fund)
In Memory of Greg Hallow
In Honor of the LWA Music
Department “as a token of our
appreciation for the invaluable
experience Krissy has had during
her years at LWA.”
Kevin and Karen Kelleher
In Memory of Mitchell Hallow ’70W
Mrs. Aileen Hallow
In Memory of Charles Mann
(DeBare Fund)
In Memory of Hal Hersh, father of
Jennifer ’92 and Allison ’98
In Honor of Ruth Merrill
Mrs. Johanna Garfield ’49W
In Memory of Yvonne Hibbert
(Desmond Hibbert’s ’11
grandmother)
Mr. and Mrs. Errington Hibbert
In Memory of Dr. Sidney Hirsch &
Revera M. Hirsch
Dr. Robert Hirsch
In Memory of Rolfe Humphries
“Latin Teacher Extraordinaire”
Mr. George Mallis ’57W
In Memory of Risa Kaplan’s relative
In Memory of Tom Korman ’51W
Mrs. Joyce Loewenthal West ’51W
In Memory of Andie Kugler’s ’12
grandfather
In Memory of Laura Lentini’s father,
William Norcott
In Memory of Adrienne Levine’s
father
In Memory of Herbert Levenberg
(DeBare Fund)
In Memory of Betsy Meyerson’s
sister
In Memory of James Murphy, Jr.
In Memory of Sybil Newmark
(DeBare Fund)
In Memory of Allison Notter ’95
Mr. David Wirtenberg ’95
In Memory of Florence Osterweil
(DeBare Fund)
In Memory of Joy Piedmont’s
grandmother
In Memory of Joseph Piedmont
(Michael Piedmont’s grandfather)
to Arnold Schwartz Stage & Hessel
Hall Piano Fund
Mrs. Laury Fishman
Mrs. Elizabeth Glazer +
Middle School Faculty
In Honor of Bonnie Pinkow
Mr. Peter Rosmarin ’61W
In Memory of Pat Ricioppo’s
mother, Margaret
In Memory of Rose and Stanley Rich
In Memory of Stuart Schaller
(DeBare Fund)
In Memory of Mackenzie
Schreibman-Caputi’s (’22)
grandmother
Mrs. Laury Fishman
In Honor of Arnie Schwartz “On his
80th birthday and 24th year as
super teacher and star at LWA” –
(Dennis Carroll)
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hanson
Mr. Stu Margolies
In Memory of Helen Schwartz
(mother of Corey ’95)
In Memory of Ruth Schwartz
Mrs. Susan Pinke-Tam ’86W
In Honor of Shelley Silbering
Mr. David Wirtenberg ’95
In Memory of Winifred J.
Tanenbaum
Ms. Ellen Tanenbaum Arthur
In Memory of Limor Tintweiss’
grandfather
In Honor of Danny Vacchio’s ’06
Commissioning Ceremony into
the US Marine Corps
In Memory of Mario Vacchio
(Patty Vacchio’s father-in-law)
Mrs. Laury Fishman
Mrs. Roz Friedman
In Memory of Nicky Vacchio ’06
The Breslauer Family (Ginny, Lindsay,
and Kimberly)
Mrs. Laury Fishman
Mrs. Roz Friedman
Mr. Arnold Schwartz
In Memory of Michel J. H. Van Vugt
(DeBare Fund)
In Memory of Jen Weisel’s ’03
grandmother
In Honor of Coach Jeff Weiss’ 400th
Win and Induction into the New
York State Basketball Hall of Fame
Mr. Eric Premisler ’94
Mr. John Schandler ’93
Mrs. Ann Schindler
Mr. Lynroy Williams ’93
In Memory of Richard Wexler
(DeBare Fund)
Ms. Nicole DeBare
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LWA Faculty and Staff
(shown with the year they joined the Academy)
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2007
2003
2012
2005
Michael Kligfeld, ’59
Action Graphics
“It felt good to be in a high school where every student and every teacher was personally acquainted with everybody else at the school.”
Printing:
Centennial Memories
Sylvia Aisenstadt
2001
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2006
2009
2007
2012
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2008
2003
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2006
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2012
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Donna Linton
Lauren Longo
Xiaona "Nicole" Ma
Laura Maffei
Maryanne Marshall
Colette Marzouk
Marisa Bencivenga Mayer
Daniel McMenamin
Kris Papp McNeela
Brian McNulty
Melissa Oddo
Debra Hersh Orlep
Elizabeth Palisoc
Randi Pellett
Michael Piedmont
Bonnie Pinkow
Mark Pirouet
Kristofer Pischel
Lisa Pohlman
Patricia Ricioppo
Terri Rubenstein
Mary Tortora Sakowich
Bradley Scalise
Robert Schaefer
Judi Schiffer
Maureen Shannon
Stefanie Pinkow Sheflin
Dawn Shillalies
Louis Tolentino
Heather Tomko
Noula Tserpes
Nancy Tuck
Margery Udell
Patricia Vacchio
Cynthia Webb
Jeff Weiss
Robin Wilensky
Linda Williams
La Zhong
Edna Zion
Design:
Leslie Shure Agin ’97
Alexandra Aldredge
Alexander Altieri
Paula Altman
Tony Artusa
Frank Artusa
Roxane Ayala
Alan Bernstein
James Bogdan
Robbie Brenner ’03
Hydee Bressler
Jason Cafaro
Megan Caputo
Jose Cocar
Michael Cohn
Vincent Costa
Yolanda D’Antonio
Yves Domond
Segundo Duenas
Douglas Ebert
Walter Efigenio
Marguerite Engelman
Barbra Barth Feldman ’82
Laury Fishman
Nigel Fortune
Roslyn Friedman
Sherri Fromowitz
Kathleen Glasberg
Michelle Gold
Stacey Shlachtman Greengold
Denice Halpern
Dioclis Hernandez
Anne Herrera
Marc Hoyle
.Josh Jampole
Stefanie Kerkenides
Ellen Komisarow
Martie Last
Laura Lentini
Susan Lettieri
Lawrence Woodmere Academy Centennial Edition:
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2011
1988
2004
2011
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2011
2011
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2012
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2007
2012
1994
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1994
Think about it.
Think about what you learned here.
Think about who you met here.
Think about who you became here.
Think about making a tax-deductible,
year-end gift to the Academy to help us
continue to facilitate friendships, develop
character and produce thinkers…and doers.
You may use the enclosed envelope or make
your gift at www.LawrenceWoodmere.org
by clicking “Giving Back.”
Think about designating your gift…
Arnie Schwartz
Stage and Hessel Hall
Fund
Headmaster’s Fund
(area of greatest need)
Core Discipline:
English, Foreign Languages,
History, Math, Science, Technology
In Honor
or in Memory
of someone
Visual and
Performing Arts (Studio Art,
Noah Warren
Vocal and Instrumental Music)
Need-Based
Scholarships
Athletics
Class of 2018
To learn how you can support the Academy’s additional philanthropic initiative, the Centennial Campaign, please contact
Megan Caputo at 516-394-1826 or MCaputo @ LawrenceWoodmere.org
L aw r e n c e
Wood mer e
Ac ad emy
c e n t e n n i a l
E d i t i o n
Ed i t o r :
Robbie Brenner ’03
Megan Caputo, Laury Fishman
A s s o c i at e Ed i t o r s :
Board of Trustees 2012-2013
Peter Boneparth, ’76, P ’06, ’08, President
James Confino, P ’09, Treasurer
Elizabeth Glazer, P ’07, Secretary
Alan Bernstein, P ’08, ’11, Headmaster
Niall Alli, P ’26
Mary Anne Amato, P ’17, ’20
Michael Clark, P ’10
Michael Eigen, P ’23, ’25
Brian Fay, P ’13, ’14, ’17
Barry Goldberg P ’13
Thomas Iannelli, P ’24
Alex Shlomm, P ’23, ’25
Janice Taylor, P ’97
Harriette Thayer
Naz Vahid-Ahdieh, P ’14
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Adm i n i s t r at o r s
Alan Bernstein, Headmaster
Robbie Brenner ’03, Director of Development
& Alumni Relations
Hydee Bressler, Director of Business and Finance
Babra Barth Feldman ’82, Director of Summer Day
Susan Lettieri, Director of College Guidance
Donna Linton, Middle and Lower School Director
Meghan O’Callaghan, Director of Admissions
Cynthia Webb, Upper School Director
Jeff Weiss, Athletic Director
Readers’ comments are always welcome.
Please address them to:
Editor, LWA publications
Lawrence Woodmere Academy
336 Woodmere Blvd.
Woodmere, NY 11598
phone: 516-394-1818
e-mail: [email protected]
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