We’ve had a great response so far of classmates checking in with their memories and/or up-to-date information. We print them below. Clicking on the name will give you a composition page to send an e-mail to that person. Those who may have filled out the form, but not included memories, please go back and let us know what you remember and I’ll add it here. Those who sent memories, but did not send up-to-date info, please do so. And, if anyone has the e-mail of a class member that we don't have, please send it to me. If someone does not want their information and/or memories included here, please let me know and I’ll remove it. We figured the class wants to keep in touch. Enjoy the nostalgia.

“Do you know what sparked the best memory for me? Seeing all of your names on a list. What a hoot. I hope everyone’s well and I (for one) am really looking forward to our 25th.”

Nina Davenport

“I don’t know how it feels to anyone else, but 25 years to me has the feel of one very long summer vacation that will somehow wind down with us all returning some Indian Summer day in the Fall to pick up next year’s course materials at the Morris Gym, each one of us nervously seeking our footing and wondering if we’ll fit in where we last left off the previous Spring. Only now after 25 years, instead of wondering if everyone else will “recognize” me, I’m wondering just how well I’ll be able to recognize myself. All you precious people -- I wish I had as much time as I used to spend in the Front Hall (or in the Library driving Mrs. Woy crazy) to take in each one of your life stories. From Carey Perloff’s running theatres in San Francisco to Allen Wilson’s digging into community work right here in Philadelphia. I’ll settle, I guess, for a look at all your faces come May 13. Just a few fleeting images come to the fore scrunched between tasks at work:

I’d better quit for now. I could do this all day, but I can’t get any work done playing with e-mails. Thanks, Mike, for the web site, and for the bitter and sweet memories of a loss to the Hun School in March and a win in May --but mostly for prompting me to get lost for a short while in a little GFS reverie. Hope all my class mates are well. What a great group.

Tom Loder

“Nina - You hit the nail on the head! I took a look at the website and enjoyed the thumbnail view of our senior picture. The hairdos are especially impressive!...It will be fun to stay in touch. I enjoyed Tom Loder’s rundown of GFS memories!”

Julie Cohn

“ • Memories of GFS - Handwriting the Lord’s Prayer every morning in Mrs. Uhlig’s 5th grade class!
• Shoe-box reproductions of Florentine Renaissance buildings in 6th grade (plus some sort of pie-in-the-face skit at a senior center?) and dancing on Fridays at the end of music (yikes, sometimes with boys!).
• The seventh grade camping trip - floating on the Rancoucas River.
• Mrs. Haines’ 8th grade French class and the humiliation of having to read our French essays aloud.
• 9th grade - what else? - “HMS Pinafore” - and being placed squarely in the rear where my lack of vocal talent would not be noticed (and either Nina Davenport or Abby Thompson had serious laryngitis on the night of a major role- but who was it?).
• Tenth grade - the joy and freedom of the driver’s license - and the bondage of carpooling dozens of elementary children to school in the morning.
• Ella Torrey and company streaking through the lunch room - 11th grade, I think.
• Senior year - Returning from my senior project and realizing that we really had grown up and we really were all heading off to make our own ways in life!
• And, of course, somewhere in there, never getting the bonus ice hockey question on Mrs. Reifsnyder’s history exams!”

Julie Cohn
2350 Underwood
Houston, TX 77030
Home no.: (713) 660-8030
Spouse’s Name: John Connor
Children: Miriam, 11
Occupation: Project Manager, Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning, Rice University

David Feldman
8378 Glen Road
Elkins Park, PA 19027
Home No.: (215) 887-3898
Spouse’s Name: Marilyn Frank
Children: Sarah, 13; Michael, 9
Occupation: Vice President, General Counsel and Manager for Philadelphia office of First American Title Insurance Company, the nation’s largest title insurance company.

“ • Snowball fights in the graveyard.
• Learning that just because I read it in a book, does’t make it true. Did GFS make me a skeptic?
• Cleanup time.
• Herb Bassow whining at us to shut up.
• Hanging out in the Front Hall. Hanging out at Duva’s. Hanging out in the graveyard.
• Ultimate frisbee.
• Michele Haines kicking out the entire class from 9th grade Anthropolgy (one by one, until she got so disgusted she threw the entire class out). David Felsen, who was supposed to administer the punishment couldn’t keep a straight face.”

David Sauerman
1224 Elizabeth Ave.
Naperville, IL 60540
Home No.: (630) 983-4648
Spouse’s Name: Pamela
Children: Rachael, 16; Joseph, 13
Occupation: First Vice President, LaSalle Bank, Chicago

“ • Ultimate Frisbee
• Indoor Hockey League
• Hank Hill
• Matthew Renner
• Meredith Harris
• Read Raffeto, etc.”

Peter Baur
31 Waterloo Avenue
Berwyn, PA 19312
Home No.: (610) 648-0741
Spouse’s Name: Lois
Children: Andrew, 10
Occupation: US Director of Operations, International Health Services

Peter Evans
836 Buck Lane
Haverford, PA 19041
Home No.: (610) 649-1821
Spouse’s Name: Ellen
Children: Paul, 11; Kyle, 7; Jamie, 3
Occupation: I’m home with kids, mostly

“ • ‘Scoop!’ Dan Shectman and Graham Robb arguing who first gave me the nickname.
• ‘That was definitely a hit and not an error!’
• Writing for the ‘Earthquake’ (being one of the founders) and ‘Germantown Courier’
• The bitter basketball playoff loss to Hun, but the Cinderella baseball championship in senior year and finally having a championship to write about!
• The football team beating Jerry Eure and Pennington
• A basketball game in the Boy’s Gym/The Snake Pit
• Venice Island Summer Basketball League; beating Roman Catholic one summer
• Harry Gratwick asking me to suit up for a varsity baseball game in senior year
• Dan Shectman
• Jayne Wilhelm, a wonderful, gentle Art teacher, who offered encouragement. She wrote my college recommendation, an artist recommending a writer. Her caligraphy on our diplomas, and using caligraphy to write best wishes in the yearbook.
• ‘Picking’ the weekly NFL games with Peter ‘Goofy’ Meltzer in 8th grade, which became a weekly attraction. One week we were kicked out of study hall because it was ‘un-Quakerly.’
• Howie Coale and I producing an audio tape satire of ‘You Are There’ about the Aztecs for 9th grade Anthropology. Complete with sound effects. Howie drawing dragons in my books.
• Writing haiku with David Feldman in 9th grade English
• A group of us getting kicked out of the library before an exam, for studying too loud
• Dave Felsen being late for Latin class. Dave Felsen taking up most of Latin class talking about the basketball game the day before or the antics of his college roommate, and sticking in sports questions on tests. One time we had to identify Al Downing, who gave up Henry Aaron’s 715th homerun. I gave a long description saying Downing was a right-handed pitcher. The exam came back corrected: left-handed.
• Watching Game 5 of the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals between the Flyers and Boston at the Reifsnyders.
• Complaining about Reify and Koons and being worried Mrs. Reifsnyder would put you on the spot in class. Yet, when she was my advisor for my senior project on Paul Robeson, she learned from me about this unknown civil rights figure. The project was successful and a mutual respect developed, that lasts til today. Who can forget the bumper stickers on her desk?
• Dee Bristol recognizing my voice when I called the school five years after graduating”

Michael Kleiner
127 West Sedgwick Street
Philadelphia, PA 19119-2518
Home No.: (215) 247-4749
Spouse’s Name: Lisa
Children: Matthew 19 months; Devra 19 months
Occupation: Public Relations Consultant and Web Site Designer for my own at-home business

“Although I did not have the honor of graduating with the Class of 1976--a great group of people--I was a member of the class for 10 years, so hopefully that is enough to at least allow me to be counted as an honorary member of the class. If I get permission to crash the reunion, I look forward to seeing everyone.”

“Wow I can’t wait to see you guys. Until Ann called, did not know about the 25th. Cannot wait to go eat a cheesesteak. The special memories of GFS and how we were taught will stay with me forever. I would love to have a basketball game---so I quess Tom, John, Steve, Peter B, Peter W. We spent so much time together, and of course Alan Wilson, who was a grown up even in high school. Wow, what you have done Michael is great.”

“Memories:
•Field hockey games--Go Laura!
• Senior tennis--yeah Linda!
• Carey’s funny essay on an alien visiting planet Earth, read aloud by David, our English teacher (11th grade?)
• The class party at Peter Baur’s house, playing field sports in the hot sun
• Mike Bird and Nicole Sumner getting their driver’s license before anyone else.
The rest of us: total envy
• Ultimate frisbee games with Kuby etal
(the beginning of my amateur career: I’m still playing twice a week!)
• Doing the Bump to Kool and the Gang at a dance at the GFS gym
• Can’t forget Stevie Wonder, one of my primary music sources then (and Nora’s headlights going out on the way back from his concert...)
• Can’t wait to see everyone!!”

“I am married to a very GFS-like non-GFSer and have two step-children. We split our time between Boston and our farm in Maine which is an idyllic hilltop spot that can not yet be called a ‘working’ farm, but has all the potential! Best of all, it has a separate studio which houses a letterpress printing press - a newfound love of mine - and a place for painting, overlooking a pond. Doug is an architect and I am a Principal and the Director of Marketing for Bergmeyer, a 95-person architectural firm in Boston. Our newest joy is a 10-week old Bernese Mountain Dog puppy who daily reminds us we are not nearly so young as he! I’d love to hear from anyone in the area or passing through! I had the pleasure of talking with GFS contacts in the course of business: Tom Loder and Arthur Jones, father of Monica and Sabrina.”

“Reunion ideas/child activities: Children/adult activities, where we’re both engaged in same activity; graveyard respite; graveyard games”

“ • Flirting, cutting, cramming, hamming up the latest impersonation of Reify, Sanders(?), Longstreth, and that buxom 8th grade English teacher who asked me what product I put in my hair.
• Discussing what it takes to fail, what it takes to make it to your next party, college, family dinner, gym class; lots of homework; lots of unread history books about wars, and ah -- the project-based learning from that Anthropology teacher-- symbolism in Hopi pottery, Paolo Uccello’s ‘vanishing point’; Varley Paul’s amazing project of an invented language... she awed me, totally awed me.
• ‘Let’s see your bellies girls- don’t be afraid to breathe into your diaphragm!’
-Ms. Brewer
• All the music, including Mr Clayton’s fabulous class- all the great music, compared to any school I’ve ever taught in... and Longstreth’s plays... competing with Mary Henderson for every part -- Mary always wearing that leotard with bright apples on it.
• Howie always cracking a joke or a dragon with snapping tail...
• All the clay, wet clay, cracking clay, botched pots -- and what was her name teaching pottery -- her great sweet smile... her comforting smile in the circle of teachers and administrators when I was called in for flunking English and History my last year...
Amazing that I was even given a face-to-face forum instead of just being a letter on a page.

“ • Such a richness of memories - times of great exhiliration and joy, and many of pain, angst, and sadness. In no particular order...
• For those who were in Lower School, remember Mr. Cadbury?... a big man with gentle hands holding delicate birds and taking us for walks in Carpenter’s Woods?
• I can still smell the Pine Barrens and taste the brown cedar water of the Rancocas. Remember Chris Nicholson (Tom’s dad) playing the part of a ‘Piney’ and scaring us as we drifted downstream?
• Joe Sanders (enough said)
• Going to Nelson’s Candy Store with Peter Meltzer.
• Visiting the Baur’s farm with Sally Scattergood’s class from the Pickett School and seeing her students’ pure enjoyment of the animals.
• Rick Endo and Aaron Temin - resident student geniuses in Harry Saffren’s Physics class.
• Herb Bassow’s Chemistry class and Herb handouts. I was number 10 green in Herb’s system. What a nightmare! Who’d have thought that I’d become a chemist of any sort?
• Julie Currie, Netsilik Eskimos and Bushmen and my project with Mike Kuby.
• Third grade (What was the lower school fair called?). We worked to raise money - different classes did different things; spin-art, lemon sticks, etc. I remember Tom Myers coming up with ‘Toss a penny in Benny’ (Benny was a mummy we cut a hole in).
• ‘Tiger’ Greenlaw learning to run hurdles - to this day I am impressed with the focus and discipline he displayed.
• Mike Bird running the 440.

“OK, so I wasn’t going to do this, but then I read everyone else’s memories....
• How about painting pictures from the Sistine Chapel on the bottoms of our desks in 6th grade?
• Dave Felsen taking the Greek class to the midnight show of ‘The Harder They Come’ at the TLA
• The sanctuary Jayne Wilhelm made of Art class
• Bidding on, and winning (With Beth Johnson I think, and Bonnie) a Mexican dinner cooked by Bill Koons and getting giggley on the sangria he gave us
• Bill Cromley - there is a whole page of memories of his Calculus classes. We had our own vocabulary: ‘take the pipe,’ and his ‘Dr Hall tests,’ the ones with no solutions. Remember Aaron’s song about Calculus? I have the lyrics somewhere.
• Parvin Sharpless and all those ‘poyems’
• Mrs. Rynitski (sp?) riding to school pulled by her sled dogs
• The morgue in the annex
• The 8th grade project on U.S. companies in South Africa
• Peace vigils in 6th grade
• The signs in the main building saying ‘In case of fire exit building to graveyard!’
What surprised me was how many of other people’s memories I don’t remember at all!”

Monica Jones Meade
2302 Crest Road
Baltimore, MD 21209-4209
Home No.: (410) 542-7749
Spouse’s Name: Edward Meade
Children: Dan, 11; Ben, 9
Occupation: Book Buyer, Bibelot Books

“ • Sitting on a chair in the driveway with Miss Walker barking in my ear to learn how to be quieter (I had been shouting through a cardboard tube in the Kindergarten). She had me shout as loud as I could through the tube while outside on the chair (1963).
• 1973: Bike trip with Harry Gratwick in New England.
• 1976: Penn-Jersey Baseball Champions!!!! During the season I had a solid double and promptly proceeded to try and steal third base. No luck.
• 1971: 7th grade camping trip (NJ).....and for that matter 1970 6th grade trip (French Creek).
• 1972: Streaking craze (NOT ME!!)
• 1972: Varsity Diver for the LAST GFS swimming team.
• 1974: Bill Koons and the fetal pig (remember how we hung it above his desk?)
• 1974: Reify chewing out Rossheim for not doing his homework :-)
•1970: Softball games with Mr. Miller
• 1964-65: Endo’s igloo in Mrs. Wards 1st grade classroom
• 1968: Trying to finish a research project on Greek merchant ships with Mitchell Goldburgh (seems to me we dragged our feet...and Reba threatened to hold us back in 4th grade if we didn’t get it done)
• Ultimate Frisbee Organization
• Morris Gym floor hockey
• Mr. Gotwalt and Reed Raffetto and the ropes.
• The morgue across the street.
• The front hall.
• Duva’s
• Going home to watch The 3 Stooges during lunch (I lived 3 blocks away).
• Riding my bike to field.
• Greenlaw, Baur, Myers, & Loder all trying to be the best turkeys at Prisoner’s Base :-)
• 1972: Getting punched by a stranger in the basement of the Sharpless building (I was knocked cold!)
• 1969: Fainting in 5th grade while discussing a skeleton (real) with the nurse.
• I know I remember some of the schooling...but it seems what sticks are the people! Like Joe Cadbury and his bird nets ‘fungus amungus,’ etc.

Tom (Nick) Nicholson
466 Ford Hill Rd
Berkshire, NY 13736
Home No.: (607) 657-8649
Occupation: Teaching Assistant, Ithaca City School District

“Reunion ideas: Singing some pieces we used to do in choir, with Larry Hoenig conducting.”

“Thanks for planning it! I fully expect to be there.”

Michael Kuby
1215 E. Laguna Drive
Tempe, AZ 85282
Home No.: (480) 730-8457
Spouse’s Name: Lauren
Children: Nora, 12; Olivia, 10
Occupation: Professor, Department of Geography, Arizona State University

“First, you knew me as Mary Dolbeare not Dalbeare as in the directory.... I just want to introduce why I am contributing to this...Although I left GFS before high school, (and in quite an alienated state at that point), I was a fellow ’76 classmate from Kindergarten - 8th grade. It’s taken me having kids of my own and teaching (and midlife!) to really appreciate the gift those years played in my life.

“I remember...
• Countless hours of Prisoners Base at recess.
• ‘Dickon Among the Indians’ read aloud, and Leni Lenape masks, black and red in 3rd grade...
• The ‘ScatAthen’, still vivid..the way our 4th grade classroom came alive in imagination... earning our Greek god/goddess namesakes through creating a poem and reading it to the class ritualistically with an amulet of Athene. Reading The ‘adult’ Odyessy aloud....
• The birds in Mr. Cadbury’s nets, and Suzy the Boa Constrictor eating pidgeons. Watching the fish bubble in the tanks in the Science room that reeked, while Mr Cadbury told us any number of things, such as: in the future people would eat seaweed! (It seemed GROSS then).
• Miss Bell’s artroom...filled with hoards of STUFF from old detergent bottles to Duco Cement...to create anything out of...
• Singing ‘All Creatures of our God and King,’ led by Mr Clayton, for assembly.
• Having Halloween processions in the old gym. Mr. Cushman, (the Lower School principal) wearing the same baby costume year after year...The smell of that place, the way it creaked running track.
• ..the sundial in the gracveyard...
• Our Grammar Outline and weekly book reports with Mrs. Uglig in 5th grade
• Mr Miller’s Ralph R. Ralph ‘Big Dog’ awards, and his hobby of making football diagrams while we worked on math problems....(6th grade)
• Our ‘contracts’ with Mrs Ellington (6th grade)...such rich Social Studies!
• The akwardness and anticipation in the Waltzing classes at the Unitarian Church (an extra-curricular activity in 7th grade....)
• Irvin Poley’s volumes of Theatre Scrapbooks in Friends Free Library...
• The guy who would use Meeting for Worship to rant about strange outdated politics....the round decoration in the Meeting House ceiling....
• ..seeing your 12th grade graduation, and recognizing consistencies despite the time passed since being among you. I imagine there might be a similar familarity even all these decades later as well...

Please keep me posted. I can’t make it to your reunion, but I am quite curious... I would appreciate linking up with those of you who I was with in Lower School. It’s great to peek into where we have landed through this web site, and I hope to see pictures eventually as well.”

Mary Dolbeare O’Kane
1152 N 76th Street
Seattle, WA 98103-4804
Home No.: (206) 523-6279
Children: Christopher, 22; Emmanuel, 18; Kyrian, 15; Rosy, 11
Occupation: Storyteller, Teacher, Poet, Student

“ • Sitting/studying in the graveyard
• Lifting up and moving Peter Dunning’s car!
• Hanging out in the library
• Creating electronic music
• The Greek Play where fortunately I didn’t have to act, just do the sound effects (with Alice Cohen as Aphrodite, I think).
• Art classes and especially ceramics -- waiting to see what came out of the kilns.
• The short-lived bicycling team
• Rock climbing in gym with Dan Schectman
• Liking and disliking with a passion certain teachers-(I won’t go into detail!)
I’ll see everyone at the reunion!”

David Philips
517 Crown Street
Morrisville, PA 19067
Home No.: (215) 295-2361
Spouse’s Name: Harriet Jahr-Philips
Children: Hannah, 10; Nate, 7
Occupation: Architect, Wyeth-Ayerst Research, Princeton, NJ

“ There have been so many wonderful memories that I have in common with all of you so far. So it’s going to be tough to come up with anything new. But here goes.
• Quisinaire rods. SRA. Collecting stickers.
• "flake off"!! "mole"! YoYos
• Greek Day, and roasting a lamb on the Emlyn playground.
• Mrs.Uglig giving a student who did really well on a test money to go to Nelsons.
• The book fair in the Morris gym.
• Shaving balloons at the Lower School Fair.
• The smell of Ginko trees in the spring.
• Having a ‘special’ lunch outside and having to smell those same Ginko trees.
• Peter Evans doing his impression of Jonathan Winters being a cat.
• Dancing to the Rolling Stones in music class.
• Being late for Monday morning assembly, the halls all quiet, green canvas book bags strewn all over the place.
• ‘The Red Balloon’, ‘The Endless Summer’
• Singing ‘Jerusalem’
• Snowball fights in the graveyard.
• Hanging out with Howie, Abby and Kevin Raphael in the lunch room while everyone else took French.
• Jayne Wilhelm’s undying devotion to her students.
• The sound of lockers shutting between classes.
• The smell of the lunch room before you’ve even gotten to the stairs.
• Those half circle windows on the landings.
• The funky, but homey girls gym.
• The Good Humor truck coming on hot spring days.
• Realizing just how cool Pat Macpherson really was.
• Tastekake fights on the bus on the way to the 10th grade camping trip.
• Listening to the radio when the SLA were being firebombed in L.A., during the camping trip. I think we were the last class to have a 10th grade camping trip. At least for a while.
• Jonathan Schiele and the Leonard brothers playing incredible jazz during assembly.

“I could keep going, but I’ll have to save some for the reunion. Hope to see you all there.”

Cindy Bansen Travis
2801 Piedmont Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
Home No.: (510) 649-0248 Spouse’s Name: Dave
Children: Dylan, 7; Laura, 4
Occupation: Professional driver, shopper, household manager, laundry stain expert, fashion consultant, short order cook, zoo keeper, entertainment co-ordinator, and story teller. Mom. Color consultant.

“ • Baking Roman recipes from the Latin cookbook of Apicius at Abby Thompson’s farmhouse
• Hiding out in the basement of Nora Winkelman’s house with Howie and Peter and Nora on New Year’s Eve while her parents partied upstairs
• The amazing outrageous travels in Greece with Pat Reifsnyder, pretending we were famous archaeologists
• Copy editting the newspaper till dawn with Diane Gottleib, musing on our futures as we rezored the paper together
• Attempting to learn how to play lacrosse
• Tap dancing in ‘Of Thee I Sing’
• Working my way through Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ with Parvin Sharpless. ”

Carey Perloff
92 Homestead Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
Home No.: (415) 285-5086
Spouse’s Name: Anthony Giles
Children: Lexie, 11; Nicholas, 7
Occupation: Artistic Director, American Conservatory Theater

“ • Working in the company store for Ms. Purdy
• Taking pictures for the yearbook
• Getting kicked off the bus and having Ms. Kalkstien (?) argue with the bus driver to let me back on
• Hanging out in the grave yard during the spring.”

Eric Stone
1314 8th Street
Boulder, CO 80302
Home No.: (303) 440-8903
Spouse’s Name: Kristi Dahl
Children: Peter, 7; Jamie, 3, Gabe, 3
Occupation: University Faculty, Colorado University-Boulder

John Rossheim
Spouse’s Name: Maureen Kelman
Children: Hannah, 3
Occupation: Journalist

Tim Sellers
219 Hawthorn Road
Baltimore, MD 21210
Home No.: (410) 243-1128
Spouse’s Name: Frances Stead
Children: Cora, 14

Robert Greenlaw
581 Watfod Lane
Berwyn, PA 19312
Home No.: (610) 695-0496
Spouse’s Name: Amy
Children: Brian, 14; Dana, 13; Jason, 6

Emily Johnson
6006 28th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98115-7116
Home No.: (206) 526-1801
Children: Laura, 13; Sadie, 11
Occupation: Graphic Designer, Owner Hedgehog Graphics

Nancy David Cox
1221 Canon Way
Westminster, MD 21157
Home No.: (410) 751-5822
Spouse’s Name: Reid
Children: Laura, 16
Occupation: Investments-Trading Assistant

Do you have e-mails for any of these classmates?
Adrienne Cannon
S. Edgar David
Ricky Endo
Carletta Evans
Suzanne Stetyler Smith
Harry Fox
Elizabeth Franklin
Richard Goldberg
Nicole Hanes
Bonnie Hoffman Adams
Leslie Berman Isen
Rachel Leonard
Fred (Bowes) Paisley
Kevin Porter
Evan Post
Sue Prattis
Abby Thompson
Alan Wilson
Peter Wilson