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memorials faculty led by Dr Gratwick, and its wider community, supKen Roberts ’58, who lives in London and was an exchange student ported him in both significant endeavours, which rightly at Horace Mann memorialized his former teacher and friend, Tom flourished and impacted positively on the lives of many, Reilly, in the following reflection: including my own. We met whenever and wherever our paths would cross, happy and convivial occasions when he would delight in reI met Tom Reilly in the fall of 1957 when I came to Horace Mann as an exchange student, the first to visit from the UK porting the ‘goings on’ at the School, usually with hilarious in his fledgling international program. He became both my yet always kindly humour. As often as not, this was directed at himself, and especially so when he also recounted the mentor, and a very special lifelong friend. He was a man many incidents—which lesser mortals would call disaster— whose principles were fiercely held, and followed with that befell him on his constant travels. conviction, integrity and courage. But on his many trips around the world, he was no Thus, we should remember that he developed the ordinary traveller, and not for him the dash to tick off a list Exchange Program at HM when the Cold War was getting colder, and isolationism finding strong advocates in the US. of major tourist attractions. As the extraordinary person he was, his interest and passion was to find the unusual, Moreover the first partner school he found for HM was in the off-beat, the quirky, that special little island, or village, Germany, scarcely 10 years after the end of World War II. or restaurant, or bar that was like no other, and to enjoy Whilst perhaps not a natural first choice for a school with to the full the local “specialities” and characters he always a strongly Jewish tradition, its symbolism as a means by found there. So, it was actually dear Tom Reilly in 1963, which to further new understanding and reconciliation in London where I was by then working, who introduced was both real and striking. Similarly he pioneered the teaching of Russian at HM in me to the Ebury Wine Bar and Gordon’s Vinters, two little a decade when McCarthyism had cast a pernicious shadow gems which are still amongst my favourite haunts today. In turn I am happy to pass on his recommendations to all who of suspicion and false accusation—and one from which educators were far from immune. Tom told me, much later, may visit here—may you enjoy the experience as he did, and be sure to raise a glass, or several, to his memory. that he had indeed felt vulnerable and faced fierce questioning and criticism at the time, but he persisted with his initiatives because he believed they were the right things Ken Roberts ’58 to do, which would yield incremental benefits to the school London, October 2011 and beyond. It is to the credit of HM that the bulk of its Tom REiLLy REmEmBERED In Memoriam Horace Mann records with sorrow the deaths of the following graduates and members of the Horace Mann School community and extends its sympathies to all family and friends who have lost loved ones. Memorials of some of these alumni will appear in the spring 2012 issue of Horace Mann Magazine. Robert Markewich ’36 ................................ APRIL 25, 2011 Rodney D. Dalton ’37 ....................... SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 Howard L. Blum ’37 ......................................... JULY 1, 2011 James H. Van Raalte ’38 .......................... AUGUST 18, 2010 Dante S. Caputo ’38 ....................................... APRIL 7, 2011 Thomas Z. Van Raalte ’38 ............................ APRIL 16, 2011 James Sondheim ’38 .................................. AUGUST 6, 2011 Albert H. Lewis ’38 .............................. DECEMBER 6, 2011 Tania Khmel Markow ’41 ............................... MAY 14, 2008 Ellen Irvin Newberry ’42 ................................ JUNE 7, 2011 Donald E. Wolf ’41 ............................................ JULY 7, 2011 Alan Posner ’42 .................................. NOVEMBER 12, 2011 John A. Tillinghast ’44 ..................................... MAY 7, 2011 Piero Weiss ’44 ........................................ OCTOBER 2, 2011 Jay Manacher ’44 ................................. NOVEMBER 4, 2011 Hans Julius Baer ’45 ................................. MARCH 21, 2011 Harold Russek ’45 .................................... AUGUST 23, 2011 62 Horace mann magazine Winter 2012 Samuel Messiter ’46 .......................... SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 I. Michael Heyman ’47 ....................... NOVEMBER 19, 2011 Edward Elkind ’48 .................................. OCTOBER 8, 2011 Samuel Hellinger ’49 .................................. AUGUST 2, 2011 Arnold Weinberg ’49 .................................. AUGUST 3, 2011 Ira Cohen ’51 ............................................... APRIL 25, 2011 Mark Saulnier ’52 ...................................... AUGUST 8, 2011 Michael Nussbaum ’52 ........................... OCTOBER 5, 2011 Daniel A. Cohen ’52 .............................. OCTOBER 29, 2011 Melvin S. Friedland ’53 ................................. JULY 12, 2011 Edward R. Busch ’54 .......................... DECEMBER 10, 2010 Stephen Klein ’55 ........................................... JULY 31, 2011 Richard J. Levine ’56 ................................... APRIL 14, 2011 Tor Mattsson ’56 ............................................ APRIL 9, 2011 Parviz Nafissian ’58 ................................. AUGUST 18, 2011 Paul Guberman ’74 .......................... SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 Timothy Sundel ’76 ................................... MARCH 21, 2010

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

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

Horace Mann - Winter 2012