Jamel Brinkley, Teacher of English from 2009-2013, has been awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction. The Guggenheim Fellowship was established in 1925 for individual writers, scholars, and artists who have demonstrated “exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors.”

Jamel is the author of Witness: Stories, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. His book A Lucky Man: Stories was a finalist for the National Book Award, among others. Jamel is an assistant professor at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.

For a complete list of the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows, visit: https://www.gf.org/announcements/

Bruce Edelstein, Teacher of Visual Arts from 2000-2022, has work in “Breakfast,” a group exhibition celebrating coffee, pastries, and companionship, at the Private Public Gallery in Hudson, New York. The exhibition is on view from Saturday, 16 March through Saturday, 6 April. A reception will take place on Saturday, 16 March, from 2:00-5:00pm. Private Public Gallery is located at 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, New York.

https://privatepublicgallery.net

Former faculty member Margery Mandell has passed away. A lifelong New Yorker, Margery worked at Trinity from 1997 to 2012, where she served variously as an instructor in the English Department, advisor to the Trinity Times, and Upper School Dean for Co-Curricular Learning. She also oversaw the School's internship program, directed the Upper School's Community Time programming, and administered Upper School foreign travel opportunities. Outside of Trinity, she worked as a freelance journalist, a nonfiction writer, an on-air journalist for Dutch television, and was the president of the Mandell Family Foundation, which has supported a variety of causes ranging from cancer research to civil rights.

A beloved and deeply respected member of the Trinity family, she is remembered by her colleagues for her wit, her love of literature and the English language, and her devotion to her students and her family. Her enthusiasm and energy served as an inspiration to her students.

Margery was predeceased by her daughter, Katherine Sugarman, and her husband of many years, Mark Sugarman. She is survived by her daughter, Alix, and son-in-law Ben; her son, Jacob, and daughter-in-law Mariela; and her grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held for Margery in the spring.

Lee Zegar, Executive Assistant to the Headmaster of Trinity School from 1987 to 1998, died on 9 June 2023 in New York City at the age of ninety-two.

A lifelong New York City resident, Lee grew up in Brooklyn and later moved to Queens. Before coming to Trinity, she worked for many years as the office manager for the shoe company I. Miller & Sons, located in the Empire State building. After moving to Manhattan, she began her Trinity career, serving as the Executive Assistant to the Headmaster from 1987 until her retirement in 1998.

Lee also volunteered at the Museum of Modern Art’s information desk and enjoyed fashion, the theater, and socializing. She is remembered by her friends for her bright, opinionated wit. In 2011, she decided to purchase a one-bedroom apartment in time for her 80th birthday. Her successful search was featured in the New York Times real estate section. "I expected to be married," she joked to the Times. "I was engaged at least three times, but I was the original runaway bride."

Former faculty member and administrator Jim Iredell died on 12 June 2022 from complications of Parkinson's Disease. Mr. Iredell was born in Akron, Ohio and received his BA and MA from Case Western Reserve University.  He began his teaching career at University School in Cleveland and, after moving to New York, taught at Trinity from 1980-1992, serving also as Upper Middle School Principal. In 1996, Iredell joined his wife, Cornelia, who herself taught at Trinity from 1981-1986, as codirector of Independent School Placement, a teacher recruitment firm in New York City. A lover of trains, opera, and organ music, Iredell served on the Vestry at Church of the Holy Trinity and was a member of the Blue Hill Troupe. In addition to Cornelia, he is survived by his brother, Robert Iredell IV; and his stepson, Alexander Bauer, Trinity class of '92, Alex's wife, Colleen McCarthy, and their three sons. A memorial gathering is being  planned for the autumn.

Brian T. "Kiv" Kivlan, Teacher of Physical Education and Fitness at Trinity School from 1971-2013, died in Jacksonville, Florida, on 9 April 2022. He was seventy-four years old.

Born in Riverdale in the Bronx, Kivlan graduated from Bishop Dubois High School and earned his BS and MS from Manhattan College. He was the first male in New York state to run a mile in under 4:00 minutes. Nationally ranked in the mile and the 1500, Kivlan was an All-American athlete and a semifinalist in the United States Olympic Trials in 1968.

In addition to being a medaled athlete and extraordinary runner, he was an inspiring, dedicated, and talented teacher and coach during his forty-two years at Trinity.

"Brian Kivlan achieved many milestones in his long tenure at Trinity, one of which was starting the girls' soccer program," Teacher of Performing Arts and Physical Education and Fitness Thomas Bolster writes. "I owe Brian a debt of gratitude for showing me such kindness in my early days at Trinity and for believing in the vast potential of the girls' soccer program."

"When I started at Trinity in 2001, Kiv was my mentor and colleague," Assistant to the Chaplains and Director of Public Service Kara Paske Siegel said. "Kiv did have a tough exterior [...] yet he was kind with a big heart and generous spirit.”

"When I think of Kivlan the first thing that comes to mind was how generous he was with his coaching knowledge. Not only was he generous with us at Trinity but across our league," Teacher of Physical Education and Fitness Brian McKee said. "He inspired all of us to be better coaches. Also, Kivlan inspired, motivated, and saw the talent in so many students long before they even knew they had it! He will be greatly missed."

Kivlan is survived by his daughter, Kerri, son-in-law, Patrick, granddaughter, Ava Rose, and brothers, Eugene and Andrew. Gifts in Kivlan’s name may be made to the Coach James McHugh Scholarship Fund at Kivlan’s alma mater, Manhattan College.

Charles Thomas “Mike” Bundy II, who taught classics at the Trinity School from 1958–1974, died in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on 15 February 2022. He was ninety-two years old.

Born in Eau Claire on 17 July 1929, he was the only child of Egbert Bird Bundy and Ruth Johnson Bundy. He graduated at the head of his class from Shattuck School in Faribault, Minnesota, and earned his BA from Kenyon College. As a Fulbright scholarship recipient, he spent a year in Paris and in Grenoble, France at the Université de Grenoble. After serving in the US Army in Germany for two years, he enrolled at Columbia University, where he received his MA.

During his tenure at Trinity, Mr. Bundy served as Director of Admissions, Teacher of Latin and Greek, and faculty advisor of the Trinity Times. Beloved by Trinity students, Mr. Bundy is remembered as a dynamic teacher, esteemed advisor, and remarkable individual.

"He really did have a significant impact on a lot of us. This is reinforced by the fact that many of us maintained a relationship with him from our time at Trinity up until the time he died," said Jeff Krolik ’74.

"He was a wonderful and giving human being who cared about students and tried to help them develop in any way possible. He shared his love of knowledge and this resonated with everyone," said Edmund Moore ’74.

"He was an enthusiastic teacher of Latin, a natty dresser with a sharp wit. He taught us the lost art of scanning the meter of Latin verse, a skill that only a lover of languages might wish to acquire. Most importantly, the study of Latin [with Mr. Bundy] provided me with a profound understanding of our English language that I still carry with me today," writes Donald K. Riker ’63.

"Latin was never going to be easy, but he surely made it fun, bringing the Aeneid and other texts alive in a wholly original way. His classes were miracles of improvisation and mischief, filled with little strategies to keep us on our toes," writes Andrew C.J. Bergman ’66.

"I remember Mr. Bundy as both an excellent Latin teacher and as an excellent advisor to the Trinity Times, of which I was editor. His lyric poetry class was so good that I went on to do three years of ancient Greek at Princeton so that I could read Catullus' [Latin] translations in the original!" writes William "Bill" H. Janeway ’61.

"Although I had Mr. Bundy as a Latin instructor, my main contact with him was through my participation in the Trinity Times,” writes Steven Fraccaro ’70. “He directed its production with enthusiasm and wit."

Krolik and Fraccaro have vivid and joyous memories of accompanying Mr. Bundy to Cocce Press on Barrow Street in Greenwich Village where they witnessed the printing of the newspaper and "journalism magic." "For all of us at the Trinity Times, he had a profound impact. We spent a lot of hours with him. The Trinity Times was our central extracurricular activity, and he was the central figure. He was very hands on. It was a truly educational experience," Krolik said.

"He was a very genuine individual and very supportive,” Moore said. “He made you feel like you were important. Although he was an authority figure, you didn't think of him as such. He was very down to earth and humorous and serious when needed. He was very giving and caring of everybody's needs.”

Moore recalls Mr. Bundy's open door policy, where students could speak to him individually or congregate as a group in his office: "He was always there for people. He was a unique person in that respect, whether in a classroom, a group setting, or with personal situations. His office was a safe haven for me to talk or to laugh or to joke. I know he did this with scores of students and whatever trials and tribulations they were going through. He was so much more than a teacher.”

"We—the boys who doted on him—knew nothing of his erudition, which he wore as lightly as summer seersucker. It was rather his generosity of spirit and wonderful playfulness that drew us in […] Mr. Bundy was a source of ebullience, approval, and delight. Small wonder so many of us gravitated towards his office as if it were a hearth," Bergman writes.

"Trinity was our family and the central reason was that it had a faculty that was fully committed to us. Faculty members had an outsized influence on the students. Mr. Bundy was not alone in having that influence, but he was at the top of the list," Krolik said.

After Trinity, Mr. Bundy served as head of the Classics Department at The Chapin School for sixteen years. While at Chapin, Mr. Bundy held annual dinners for former Trinity students and faculty at his home on East End Avenue. Moore noted that the “dinners in his apartment were elegant. He was a gourmet cook.”

Mr. Bundy retired from Chapin in 1994 and returned to Eau Claire to live in his family home. After Moore helped him move his belongings from New York and settle in Wisconsin, Mr. Bundy continued to maintain robust relationships with Trinity alumni. Mr. Bundy held birthday celebrations and annual cocktail parties in Eau Claire and Minneapolis attended by Trinity alumni.

The Annual Bundy Luncheon in New York, organized by Moore, lasted nearly twenty years. Moore fondly recalls, “[A]ll of these guys from different classes would come back to be with [Bundy]. Everyone picked up where they left off as if they were in the classroom thirty or forty years ago. And he would create nicknames for everyone at the table. The relationships were really strong."

"New York City was Mr. Bundy's "home away from home." Fraccaro writes, "I ran into Mr. Bundy at the Metropolitan Opera. He came to New York every year for several weeks, usually in February, to attend as much in the way of opera, ballet, and theater as he could fit in, as well as maintain a full schedule of dinners with friends. He was an ardent supporter of both the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Ballet.”

"In later years, the cards and letters would arrive from him in that beautiful handwriting that always gave me such a lift: news from London, the English countryside, or other garden spots he explored in his far flung travels—reports of the concerts, the opera, and the theater he so loved," writes Bergman.

"He made such a difference in our lives at Trinity and beyond. I think it's pretty rare that a teacher has such a profound impact on people in and out of the classroom. He touched a lot of lives," Moore said.

This episode of Trinity’s podcast, "podmissum," features Teacher of Visual Arts Myriam Abdelaziz. Myriam was born in Egypt, grew up in Switzerland, and has lived in France. A graduate of the International Center of Photography, in 2009 and 2011 she was named by the Magenta Foundation as one of twenty-five emerging photographers in the United States. She is a winner of the Lens Culture Emerging Talent prize, American Photography #24, La Bourse du Talent, and PhotoEspaña and was nominated for the Pictet Prize in 2016 and 2017. Her photographs have been published in American Photography, Fortune Magazine, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Smithsonian, Le Monde, Liberation, Courrier International, Marie-Claire, Eyemazing, and the British Journal of Photography, among others. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, including at the Arab Photography Biennale at the Arab Institute of Paris. It is also included in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Agence Française de Développement, and the Southeast Museum of Photography. Her book is We the People, an interactive conceptual photography project celebrating the diversity of American identity.

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/cy/podcast/faculty-author-myriam-abdelaziz/id721830443?i=1000541370609

Teacher of Visual Arts Myriam Abdelaziz is an award-winning French/American photographer born in Cairo, Egypt and based in New York City. Her new book, We the People, comprises photographs taken during the course of a months-long road trip throughout the United States. For more about We the People, visit: https://jetagebooks.net/.../we-the-people-myriam-abdelaziz

New memoir, Journey Between Two Worlds, edited by Margaret Schuette, Teacher of Physical Education and Fitness from 1990 to 2015, and written by her mother, Karola M. Schuette, is released today. Published by Koehler Books, it is an autobiographical account of growing up in Germany during the Great Depression, Adolf Hitler's dictatorship, World War II, and attaining freedom with a new life in the United States.

For more information, visit: https://journeybetweentwoworlds.com/

Robert “Bob” J. Stewart, who taught at Trinity School from 1978 to 2014, died on Sunday, May 9, in Burlington, New Jersey, at the age of 77.

Born in 1944 to parents Jack and Helen, Bob was the eldest of seven children. He began his teaching career at Boston College High School, where he worked for a year before moving to Jamaica to work as a Jesuit missionary. In Jamaica, he taught history at St. George’s College, Campion College, and the University of the West Indies, where he completed his PhD in Caribbean history. In 1978, he returned to the United States to work at Trinity School, where he spent the next thirty-six years teaching English, history, and geography in the Middle and Upper Schools. In 1992, he published Religion and Society in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, a highly regarded monograph discussing the role of religion in the formation of Jamaican society after emancipation. He retired from Trinity in 2014.

A beloved and integral member of the Trinity family, Bob is remembered for both his rigorous scholarly approach and his warm, caring teaching (as well as the cookies he provided every Wednesday for his homeroom). He served as form master (the precursor of Trinity’s class deans), class dean, and elective teacher of debate, mapmaking, and study skills. He was as active outside Trinity as he was within the community: A poet, scholar, traveler, and avid gardener, he loved The Lord of the Rings as much as he loved history and always had jazz or reggae playing in the background. His youngest son, Marcus, describes him as "a human Google before Google existed." He was known for his habit of turning interesting strangers into lifelong friends, his green thumb, and his passion for giving young people the critical tools and knowledge to thrive in a changing world.

Bob is survived by his wife, Jill; his eldest son, Paul; his daughter-in-law, Nadia; his son Marcus and fiancée, Ashley; his grandchildren, Jared, Siree, Sanea, and Caden; and his siblings, Eileen, Mary, Sharon, Margaret, John, and Dennis.

Suellyn Preston Scull, twenty-eighth head of Trinity School, died on Wednesday, 14 April 2021 at the age of seventy-six after battling cancer for the past five years.

In 1980, John Hanly, then-principal of the Upper School, and Robin Lester, then-headmaster of Trinity, hired an Australian chemistry teacher named Suellyn Preston. Suellyn quickly fell in love with Trinity and it soon became clear that the feeling was mutual. Over the course of her first career at Trinity, Suellyn taught science, was a form master—class dean in our current usage—and assistant principal. In 1986, she became principal of the Upper School, a position she held until 1997. She was known to be firm, fair, and exacting. She was also known to be a truly caring and empathetic presence in school with a great sense of fun. Her students loved her and her colleagues respected and admired her. Many of her former students are now parents at Trinity. While at Trinity in those years, Suellyn met, and married, Ted Scull, himself a former Trinity teacher.

In 2003, head of school Hank Moses invited Suellyn back to Trinity for a year to serve as interim associate head of school. Suellyn fell in love with Trinity all over again and with her new position which gave her the opportunity to see and to serve Trinity in new ways. One year in the job wasn’t enough and she applied for the job on a permanent basis. We will all always be grateful that Hank and the search committee had the good sense to hire Suellyn from among the many candidates they saw in the spring of 2004.

Over the course of five years, Suellyn oversaw curriculum integration across the three divisions, coordinated the curriculum mapping project, led the professional development program, directed our Tiger Kloof project, began work on internal 300th anniversary projects, and provided Hank, the senior staff, trustee committees, and the faculty with clear, direct, and wise counsel.

Suellyn became Trinity’s twenty-eighth—and first woman—head of school in 2007 and ably led the School through a challenging period of transition. At the School’s 300th Anniversary celebration at Carnegie Hall, then-board president Andy Brownstein said of her, “I have watched from the vantage point of the presidency of the board how hard, thoughtfully, and effectively she works. I’ve enjoyed her sharp wit and been, like so many here, the beneficiary of her advice and counsel. With affection, I sometimes refer to Suellyn as “The Boss,” and she deserves that respect. Her wisdom, grace, humor, extraordinary understanding of the school, and her deep love of children and of all things Trinity have characterized her leadership.”  As a tribute to her extraordinary leadership and in honor of the school’s tercentennial, a group of Suellyn’s former students established The Suellyn Preston Scull Endowment for Professional Development, a fund which now totals over $1 million and provides support for ongoing faculty education and development programs.

Suellyn remained at Trinity as special assistant to John Allman during his first year as head of school in 2009-2010.  Since her retirement, she has served on several boards, including the Bronx Charter School for Children and The Allen-Stevenson School, and on the Vestry of Trinity Church Wall Street. She and Ted traveled extensively and Suellyn took up and mastered bridge, her weekly game a sacrosanct event. Her love for and interest in all things Trinity never waned and her relationships with her former students and colleagues remained strong and deep. In 2016, Suellyn received The Lawrence T. Cole Award which is presented from time to time by the Trinity Alumni and Alumnae Association to an individual whose character and achievement reflect the highest traditions of Trinity School—which Suellyn did to her very core.

Suellyn is survived by her husband, Ted Scull, her sister, Bronwyn Barton, her niece, Sophie Klatt, and nephew, Mark Klatt.  At her request, gifts in her memory may be made to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center or to the The Bronx Charter School for Children, 388 Willis Avenue, Bronx, NY 10454.  Due to COVID regulations, the family will hold a private service in the coming days and, as soon as conditions permit, Trinity School will host a memorial event so that Suellyn’s many colleagues, friends, and former students may gather to remember her and to celebrate her life.

Jamel Brinkley, Upper School Teacher of English from 2009-2013, has a story, "Comfort," featured online in the summer 2020 issue of Ploughshares, an award-winning journal of new writing. He is the author of the acclaimed short story collection A Lucky Man, the recipient of numerous honors including the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Fiction, and a finalist for the 2019 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction.

Lorraine Rosen Williamson, Teacher of Grade Three at Trinity School from 1984 to 1999, passed away on 19 March 2018 in her Manhattan home. She was ninety-one years old.

Lorraine was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1926. The oldest daughter of Benjamin Rosen, of Mogilev, Russia, and Ruth Salpeter, of Chicago, she attended the University of Illinois and completed her bachelor’s degree at Roosevelt University. After earning her master’s degree in education at New York University, she began a lifelong career as an educator. She taught students ranging from first-graders to master’s candidates, was the principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, and taught third grade at Trinity School until her retirement in 1999. She was deeply beloved by her students and their families.

Lorraine continued to volunteer as a reading specialist after retiring, tutoring children of all ages and adults with cognitive impairments; she also volunteered as a docent at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan. She was an avid reader, storyteller, and theater-goer, and was devoted to her students, her daughter, and her grandchildren.

In 1950, she married Melvin R. Williamson, a writer, documentarian, and artist from the South Side of Chicago who was one of the first black students to attend a white high school in 1937 and later became an art director at Viking Press in New York. Although Lorraine’s Ashkenazi Jewish parents opposed the marriage, Lorraine and Melvin spent forty-five happy years together until Melvin passed away in 1995. The Williamsons moved to the Upper West Side in the 1950s—Lorraine had to find and lease the apartment alone, since no landlord would rent to an interracial couple—and spent the rest of their lives in the same apartment. After sixteen years of marriage, they had one daughter, Lisa Williamson Rosenberg, a former professional ballet dancer and clinical social worker who now works as a writer and psychotherapist.

Lorraine is survived by her daughter; her son-in-law, Jonathan Rosenberg; her grandchildren, Zoe Rosenberg and Theo Rosenberg; and her younger sister, Betty Soren.

Frank C. Leana died on 2 October 2017, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of seventy-three. Frank taught English and served as the Director of College Counseling at Trinity School from 1973-1985. He was a well-known, respected, and admired figure in the landscape of educational counseling, receiving the John Muir Award from the National Association of College Admission Counselors for “a significant contribution in the field of education.” He served as Director of the Manhattan office of Howard Greene & Associates for fifteen years, and in 2000 he opened his own educational counseling practice, where he guided hundreds of students and their families through their decision-making process in boarding schools, colleges and universities, and graduate programs. He authored three books on the topic of educational counseling: Getting Into College, The Best Private High Schools and How to Get In, and Pathfinder An Action Plan: Making the Most of High School. He was a guest on various television talk shows, and New York Magazine named him “one of the city’s prominent college counselors.” Frank graduated from Hamilton College, and received his MA from Indiana University and his PhD in American literature from the University of Rochester. He loved art, music, photography, and beautiful language. When he retired, he relocated to Minnesota to be near his family, and he loved his log home on Deer Lake. He is survived by his wife, Lenesa; his stepson, S. Zachary White; his daughter-in-law, Elizabeth White; and two adored grandchildren, Joseph and Eleanor.

Former Lower School faculty member Ann Wright Strohmeier was awarded a 2017 Work-In-Progress Grant from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) in the category of Chapter Books/Early Fiction for "The Casebook of Marvelous Madison," a collection of the favorite cases of mouse detective Marvy Madison, detailing his encounters investigating rogue nuts, missing eggs, and a farmyard beauty pageant. The Grants give writers who are working on manuscripts and book projects and not currently under contract opportunities to present their work to acquiring editors hand-selected by SCBWI.

https://www.scbwi.org/scbwi-announces-2017-work-in-progress-and-don-freeman-winners/

Lee Zegar, who recently turned eighty, decided it was finally time to purchase a one bedroom apartment in New York City. She had been living in a studio on lower Park Avenue for forty-five years. An article about Lee and her hunt for the right apartment was published in the "Real Estate" section of the New York Times on 8 September 2011. It can be read at
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/realestate/the-now-or-never-apartment.html.

Bill read his poetry at various locations including the New York Public Library, Cornelia Street Café, and KGB Bar. He also participated in the PEN World Voices Festival 2009 in the panel Jazz: The Revolution of Beat at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn on 2 May. He and three other writers discussed jazz and how it relates to the written word, with musical accompaniment by Diane Moser and her trio.

Bill will be reading poetry and stories at Cornelia Street Café on 15 September 2010 in the season opener of ComposersCollaborative Inc's "subversive nightclub series" Serial Underground. The event commemorates the 30th anniversary of Bill Evans' passing. Bill Evans was a legendary American jazz pianist and composer.

Bill left Trinity in June 2011 after twenty-four years of service to the School. We thank him for all that he has contributed to our school community.

Upper School Principal Jessica Bagby read this heartfelt dedication to Bill during the final faculty and staff luncheon of the 2010-2011 academic year: "To say that Bill Zavatsky has panache would be an understatement. I have known few individuals with Z’s inimitable flair. Many of his students over his twenty-four year tenure at Trinity have certainly recognized how lucky they were to encounter Bill—a true connoisseur of life, and particularly poetry, music, and film—in their educational journey. How many students have the opportunity to learn to write poetry with a practicing and published poet, after all? Even this year at the senior retreat in a Quaker-style meeting in which the kids had the opportunity express their gratitude to teachers and peers—present and not present—who had a made an indelible impact on their years in the Upper School, Percy Allison gave a shout-out to Mr. Z. for inspiring his passion for poetry and for working with him so devotedly on his own verse.

"Bill’s contributions to the Upper School community and accomplishments as an artist are too numerable to name exhaustively, but I would be remiss if didn't acknowledge some of his milestones. Bill taught the first creative writing class in the history of the Trinity School. He taught the first film courses in the history of the School. He brought the Scholastic Writing Contest to Trinity and promoted it energetically. As a result, Trinity boasts many winners of gold and silver keys for writing, as well as two national winners for their writing portfolios. Bill also has involved Trinity in the Interschool Association’s Independent Voices project, an annual poetry anthology and reading at a Barnes and Noble store by New York City private school students. Bill has been able to bring many well-known writers to Trinity thanks to a fund donated to Trinity by a former student of his. For twenty-four years he helped to shape Columbus into a first-rate literary magazine. This year he delivered a lovely prose-poem speech—with the collaboration of the honorees—at the Cum Laude Induction Ceremony.

"Bill wants everyone to know that he feels 'very strongly about the deep friendships that he has made over the years [at Trinity] with many extraordinary students and colleagues, [that he deeply appreciates] the important work of our wonderful support staff, and [that he] will never forget what a gift it has been to teach and learn at Trinity for so many years. He hopes that you won’t forget him.' I think I am safe in saying to you, Bill, that you are unforgettable. Thank you for all you have meant to so many members of this community during your tenure here."

Meglena is an educator, museum educator, and visual artist. She began her academic career in her native Bulgaria, where she became fascinated with art and art history. Determined to study in the center of the contemporary art world, Meglena immigrated to New York and completed her BA at Hunter College, majoring in art history and studio art. While working at the Frick Collection, she discovered a passion for teaching young students and the effectiveness of integrated education. While completing a MS from Bank Street College of Education in childhood education and museum education, Meglena gained extensive teaching experience with elementary school students at institutions such as the Frick Collection, the Rubin Museum of Art, the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in the City and Diocese of New York, and the High Line park.

In addition, she was awarded a diversity fellowship from the American Association of Museums in 2012 for her efforts to include diverse audiences in museum programs. She is also the founder of ArtPlant, a hands-on art-based after-school program, which teaches environmental science. Meglena’s passion for integrating art and nature has also led to her initiative to transform an abandoned botanical garden in her hometown into an ecological educational center. Meglena also volunteers at a printmaking studio and at the Bulgarian Sunday School. She continues to make prints and actively participates in the vibrant artistic life of New York City. She speaks Bulgarian and Russian, and has a reading knowledge of French.

Anne and Renée Seufert met while working together at Trinity in the athletics department. They were married on 14 February 2009 in Westport, Connecticut and are thrilled to announce the birth of their baby boy, Max Gustav Seufert-Youngling, on 3 June 2009. Renée is a school counselor at East Haven High School and Anne is a family practice physician at Guilford Family Practice.

After seven years at Trinity, Marsha will be pursuing new professional opportunities after the academic year closes. We are grateful for all that she has contributed to our school community and wish her well in her next endeavor.

Brad writes, "I have moved to Mississippi temporarily, but am looking ardently to return to teaching/translation/et al. in the New York area. With Vassar College, Trinity remains the best school I have ever known."

Elizabeth left Trinity School in June 2011 and relocated closer to Princeton, New Jersey, where her husband has started a new job. She will be teaching at Moorestown Friends School. We thank her for the years she has spent teaching at Trinity and wish her and her husband well in their new life at Princeton.

Robert Wendt has been hired to substitute for Sarah Bonsignore during her maternity leave, from 28 November 2011 to 28 February 2012. Robert received his BA from Columbia University in English and comparitive literature. He received his MA in music education from Hunter College. He currently works at Calhoun School accompanying the middle school chorus, leading warm-ups and sectionals, and integrates music theory, history, and vocal technique into choral rehearsals as needed, with a special focus on changing male voices. He is a lifelong piano student and enjoys traveling.

Howard is giving a lecture called "Learning from Barren Island and Dead Horse Bay" on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Metropolitan Exchange at 33 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn. The lecture is part of the Freshkills Park Talks lecture series.

For over twenty years, Howard has been taking his students to Barren Island and Dead Horse Bay to study, and he has become one of the City's leading experts on the history and present condition of the area. He will be sharing some of his reflections on his studies with the students and how the site has been changing.
More information about the event can be found at
https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2011/06/14/freshkills-park-talks-learning-from-barren-island-and-dead-horse-bay

Howard announced: "The documentary that I am featured in finally made its US debut. Trashopolis, a five episode documentary about how five cities dealt with their trash throughout history continues to air on the Smithsonian Network. It made its international debut last year opening in Canada and France on the International History Channel. I appear in the New York episode (episode one) where I speak about the impact of Robert Moses' decisions on the people of New York City and how some of their household belongings ended up in a Barren Island landfill. The segment was filmed at Dead Horse Bay and Barren Island. For those who do not receive the Smithsonian Channel, Trashopolis: New York can be Googled and downloaded off the web. Trinity gets a nice shout out. Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!"

For a schedule of air times and more information, visit https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/sn/show.do?series=815.

Howard will be speaking at an upcoming gathering sponsored by Gelf magazine. "Geeky Garbage" is a "look at the most overlooked aspect of the overlooked--civilization's waste. We'll have on hand the New York City sanitation department's resident anthropologist and an expert on some of the city's earliest landfills to talk about what really happens when we throw something in the trash, and how it impacts everyone."
"Geeky Garbage" will be held Monday, 20 February 2012, at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.) at the Gallery at La Poisson Rouge at 158 Bleecker Street in Manhattan. Attendees must be twenty-one or older.
For more information, visit https://www.gelfmagazine.com/gelflog/archives/february_20_geeky_garbage.php

Howard was interviewed by Gelf magazine in an article about Barren Island, a former landfill that was sealed in 1953 but is slowly reemerging. Read the interview at https://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/message_in_a_bottle_beach.php.

Howard was quoted in an article, "Brooklyn's Dead Horse Bay Attracts Urban Explorers," online at DNAinfo.com on 9 May 2012. The article discusses how people collect and remove objects from the beach, though Howard, who takes his students there each October on a research field trip, believes the objects should be left on the beach. Read the article at https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120509/marine-park/brooklyns-dead-horse-bay-attracts-urban-explorers.

Howard is retiring at the end of the academic year after twenty-four years of service to Trinity School. Lower School Principal Rosemary C. Milliman writes, "No one deserves the pleasures and freedoms of retirement more than Howard and yet the news is bittersweet. The program Howard has built over the past two and a half decades is legend, and his place among the Lower School faculty is central to our program. Howard Warren was one of my very first hires when I was a new Lower School principal at Trinity back in the summer of 1989. I remember our interview to this day. Howard’s passion for marine biology and life stands out indelibly in my memory. He was a walking encyclopedia when it came to sea life and baseball. During his time at Trinity, he has secured the School’s access to Dead Horse Bay and Jamaica Bay for the archeology project he and Christine Nealy teach in Grade Four. No other school in the state can boast this access. He has traveled the world (India and Africa) to share his teaching philosophy and the passion of which I speak. The good news is that Howard has offered to return to Trinity at any juncture that we feel we need him!In the spring, we’ll formally celebrate his extraordinary work with us, but in the meantime, please join me in taking every opportunity to thank Howie for his contributions as a teacher and colleague."

“Dead Horse Bay: New York’s Hidden Treasure Trove of Trash” tells the story of the abandoned cove in the southwestern corner of Brooklyn. The video won the award for Outstanding Video Journalism at the Emmy Awards on 18 September. In the film, Howard Warren, a former Trinity science teacher, is interviewed about bringing his students to collect artifacts at Dead Horse Bay for almost thirty years.

It is available to be seen here: http://abcn.ws/1k4laeo

Jacqueline, who has been a school nurse at Trinity since 2005, will be venturing overseas to Indonesia in September to pursue a career in international public health. We thank her for her time wish us, and wish her the best in this exciting endeavor!

Theo left Trinity at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year to work closer to home. We thank him for his time spent teaching at Trinity School.

Morika is leaving Trinity to teach seventh grade math and science at Bank Street School for Children. We thank her for her time with us and wish her the best on her next endeavor!

Trysh had a new book come out in November 2009: The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey.

Elvina teaches kindergarten at the American International School of Guangzhou in Guangzhou, China, hear Hong Kong.

Elvina is now working at the International School of Beijing in China as an educational technology facilitator supporting preschool through second grade.

Fred Toborg taught physical education at Trinity for thirty years before retiring in 2002. He and his wife, Barbara, reside in Broad Channel, New York, and their lives were recently turned upside down when Hurricane Sandy struck.

Fred writes, "Just after our river cruise vacation from Moscow to St. Petersburg last October, Hurricane Sandy paid us a visit and swept through our living room, kitchen and library with four feet of water. Fortunately, we had heeded advice and evacuated and thus saved our automobile from inundation. We returned to find our belongings strewn all over our house: piano toppled, fridge on its back, deck torn from its footings and jutting up like the prow of a ship pointing towards the A train subway tracks that were in a tangle. We started to slowly make order out of the chaos. Our daughter, Lili, class of ’91, and her family descended on us from Vermont, and her husband, Clayton, began to rip out the sheetrock. I tried to stop him but that was before I learned about “mold” and what flood waters can do.

"Lili posted pictures of our mess on Facebook and, lo and behold, the Trinity community, upon seeing them, launched a great effort to help us. Tor Christensen '91 and Elle Can '91 created a PayPal fund to help with reconstruction. We were amazed at the generous response of so many friends in and out of Trinity, especially their messages of love and support. A group of volunteers from Trinity, led by Alumni Relations Manager Ed Griffin, descended on us and spent the day creating order out of the chaos we were still in. I knew I had been fortunate to have been at Trinity for thirty years, but I was overwhelmed by the outpouring of goodwill and aid. Then, Chip Brian '89, president of the Alumni Association, and his partner, Mike Daddio, visited us and offered to rebuild our house with their construction company, Design Development NYC. I was black and blue from pinching myself that all this could be happening. In December I gave the keys to our house to Chip’s company, took advantage of an offer from Bob and Sue Hipkins to use their house on North Captive Island in Florida, and headed south.

"When we returned from our jaunt in February, we found our house being reconstructed with new walls, floors, doors, and a back deck. We were able to replace appliances with funds from the PayPal account. We rented a room from a friend in Far Rockaway until we were able to move back into our house on 1 May. We now lived in the midst of the work as Chip’s people restored our kitchen and living room. It was wonderful to be home, even amidst the minor chaos of workers and their tools. Our son, Michael, class of ’94, and friend, Katrin, were able to visit in May. Mike lives and works in Munich, Germany. He quickly put his engineering talents to work installing electrical fixtures and aligning doors. We were able to spend a weekend in Vermont with Lili and family for a reunion. Today, nine months after Sandy, we are still tidying up the house and property. But we are home and very thankful to the Trinity community and Chip Brian and his associates at Design Development NYC. To all, I invite you to visit us at any time to see the wonders of the marsh and Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge which adjoin our newly renovated home in Broad Channel."

Douglas was recently honored by Trinity for his twenty-five years of service to the School. Thank you, Doug, for all you have given, and will continue to give, to the School!

Barbara Tischler will serve as Trinity's associate head for academic affairs, effective 1 July 2012. She will be charged with ensuring the effectiveness of the two most significant processes in a school: the design and implementation of our K-12 academic curriculum; and the professional development, support and evaluation of our teachers. Holding undergraduate and graduate degrees in music as well as an MA and PhD in history from Columbia University, Barbara is a musician and scholar who has been a teacher for over three decades in higher as well as secondary education, teaching courses ranging from middle school geography to graduate-level American studies. In addition, she has also served as an administrator in higher and secondary education, working for the past fifteen years as a teacher and administrator at Horace Mann School, where she is currently director of curriculum and professional development.

Dr. Barbara Tischler left Trinity at the end of the school year. We thank her for her contributions to the School and wish her well in her future endeavors.

Caitlin is performing in an improv show on 23 April 2010 at 7:00 p.m. "My troupe is called The Hypotheticals. We do narrative long-form improvisational theater (making up stories based upon audience input) and we have a show on Friday evening at the PIT (Peoples Improv Theater) in Chelsea. It would be great to have some of you folks in the audience, so please come on down! Also in the troupe is my fiance (and new Trinity staff member) Jeremy Lamb." PIT is located at 154 W 29th Street between 6th and 7th avenues. The cover is $5.00.

Caitlin left Trinity School at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year. She is now teaching in a bilingual classroom in a public school in order to finish her master’s degree in K-6 elementary education and bilingual education. She will then move to Austin, Texas to join her husband, Jeremy Lamb, in December or January. We wish Caitlin the best on her next journey!

Congratulations to Caitlin for her marriage to Jeremy Lamb on 18 June 2011! She will be in New York City this fall student teaching in a bilingual classroom in a public school in order to finish her master's degree in K-6 elementary education and bilingual education. She will then move to Austin to join her husband in December or January.

Donghong has been teaching chemistry for the past six years at Montgomery High School in Skillman, New Jersey, where she has been part of the leading effort in implementing a modeling instruction approach in science education. Over the years, she has attended several modeling workshops in physics, chemistry, and biology, and co-lead modeling chemistry workshops, with the most recent one at Teachers College, Columbia University in summer 2013. Before starting her teaching career, Donghong worked as a senior scientist at Rohm and Haas Company after receiving her PhD in chemistry from Columbia University.

In her spare time, Donghong loves to play tennis and ski, and takes ballroom dance lessons as well. She also enjoys spending time with her daughter who is starting her freshman year in college.

Tom is now Head of Upper School at Greenwich Academy after teaching in the English department for the past three years.

Ann and her husband are in a play, an evening of comedy called All in the Timing by David Ives, presented by the Heavenly Rest Players. There are two performances: 24 April at 8:00 p.m. and 1 May at 8:00 p.m. at the Church of the Heavenly Rest at 2 East 90th Street. Tickets can be purchased at the door or on www.smarttix.com for $20.00. Also in the cast is Ryan Scott, a former Grade Two assistant.

Ann Strohmeier was recently honored by Trinity for her twenty-five years of service to the School. Thank you, Ann, for all you have given to the School! We with you the best in your retirement.

Ann writes, "Thirty-two years ago (1982) my husband Bill and I, with our four-year old daughter Kristin in hand, first walked through the doors of Trinity. Kristin started Kindergarten that September, and I started teaching at Trinity in 1989 when our son, Stephen, was in second grade. Before that, I had taught for seven years at three different preschools, which brings my entire teaching career to date to thirty-two years as well. Twice thirty-two seems auspicious; a lovely, round number for a career that has been long and extremely rewarding, both professionally and personally.

"And now it is time to go on to other things. What those exactly are, I’m not quite sure, but surely the journey is just as important as the destination. It’s hard to leave a place that has been such a large part of my life, and I will always love teaching. But transitions are always the hardest part, and the future seems very exciting to me."

Ann is acting in a play, Polish Joke by David Ives, presented by the Heavenly Rest Players. The performances run Thursday through Saturday 22-24 March and Thursday through Saturday, 29-31 March. Performances begin at 8:00 p.m. in Darlington Hall at the Church of the Heavenly Rest at 2 East 90th Street. Tickets can be purchased at the door or on www.smarttix.com for $20.00. All profits go to the Church outreach programs. No children, please; adult humor in both language and content.
Trinity's Michael Gilbert and Ann's husband, Bill, are acting in the play. Trinity's Harrison Williams is set designer.

Ann Strohmeier was recently honored by Trinity for her twenty-five years of service to the School. Thank you, Ann, for all you have given to the School! We with you the best in your retirement.

Ann writes, "Thirty-two years ago (1982) my husband Bill and I, with our four-year old daughter Kristin in hand, first walked through the doors of Trinity. Kristin started Kindergarten that September, and I started teaching at Trinity in 1989 when our son, Stephen, was in second grade. Before that, I had taught for seven years at three different preschools, which brings my entire teaching career to date to thirty-two years as well. Twice thirty-two seems auspicious; a lovely, round number for a career that has been long and extremely rewarding, both professionally and personally.

"And now it is time to go on to other things. What those exactly are, I’m not quite sure, but surely the journey is just as important as the destination. It’s hard to leave a place that has been such a large part of my life, and I will always love teaching. But transitions are always the hardest part, and the future seems very exciting to me."

After thirty-six years as a member of the Trinity faculty, Bob Stewart has decided that he will be retiring at the end of the current academic year. Bob began his teaching career in 1968 as a Jesuit at Boston College High School. After a year there he moved to Jamaica, where he taught history at St. George’s College, Campion College, and at the University of the West Indies, where he completed a doctoral program in Caribbean history. He published his research in his 1992 book on religion and emancipation in Jamaica. He left Jamaica in 1978 and began teaching at Trinity in the 1978-79 academic year. Bob is trading the joyful noise of middle schoolers for the quiet of the oaks that guard his home in New Jersey. He plans to tend his garden, catch up with his reading, and write another book. We thank him for his dedicated service to the School and wish him the best in his retirement.

Ben comes to us from The Emery/Weiner School in Houston, Texas where he has been working as a middle school technology integration specialist. Prior to that, as their eighth grade history teacher, he rewrote a textbook-free global studies and current events curriculum that deeply integrated technology. Emery/Weiner awarded him the Rav Preida Award for Teaching Excellence this past year for the success of this class. Having grown up in Philadelphia, Ben is an avid Philadelphia sports fan. He also likes to cook, does a lot of cycling, and is a big computer nerd.

Ben Stern is pursuing an opportunity with an educational technology company, TeachBoost, and is leaving Trinity at the end of the academic year. We thank him for his service to the School and wish him the best.

The Rev. David Sox, who was chaplain at Trinity from 1963 to 1970, sends in an update from England: "2011 and I am seventy-five! Was ordained fifty years ago and published my twelfth book. This one was a biography of Père Armand David (1826-1900), a priest and nature explorer who discovered the giant panda and seventy plants are named for him."

David sent us an interesting anecdote: "Before I came to Trinity in 1963 as chaplain, I was chaplain at Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. One of my students was Mitt Romney!"

The Rev. David Sox published his twelfth book in 2009, a biography of the naturalist, Père Armand David (1826-1900). "I do gallery talks at the Natural History Museum. I'm now seventy-seven years old (yipes!). I'm a dual citizen of the US and the UK."

Margaret began her teaching career at the Lincoln Jewish Community School in Nebraska. When she relocated to New York, she worked for the East End Temple and Temple Israel of the City of New York. She most recently taught modern European history to undergraduates at Fordham University. Margaret also tutored at the Writing Center at Fordham. She is fluent in Spanish, proficient in French and Latin, and some Hebrew and Old English. Margaret and her new husband, as of 23 July 2012, have a wonderful little dog, Lola.

Margaret and her husband, Zach, welcomed their son, Ezekiel, into the world on 15 August 2013. He weighed in at six pounds and two ounces. Margaret writes, "He is sweet and beautiful, and Zach and I are totally in love with him." Congratulations to the family!

An update on Nika and Sanjiv Maliakal: “After leaving Trinity, we moved to the San Francisco Bay Area – Sanj was teaching sixth and eighth grade science at the San Francisco Day School and Nika returned to the Prospect Sierra School to teach eighth grade humanities. We got married, traveled a lot (Hawaii, Costa Rica, and India have been highlight trips), managed to do a lot of hiking and windsurfing, and then had two twin girls, Madeline and Katherine, in September 2007. This past summer, we moved back to the East Coast to be closer to family. Sanj is currently teaching sixth and eighth grade science at New Canaan Country School while Nika is at home with the girls. We’d love to hear from former students and/or colleagues. Our e-mail address, [email protected], is a good way to reach us. Hope this finds everyone well!”

Jonathan is leaving the Portsmouth Abbey School in Rhode Island to teach Spanish at Trinity School. He spent several months teaching English at English for Fun in Madrid, Spain. For eight years, Jonathan was the chef and kitchen manager at Adams House Home for the Aged in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is a passionate golfer and still chuckles each time he watches Caddy Shack, but also enjoys a good Marlon Brando or Jimmy Stewart movie.

Jonathan lived and studied in Spain as part of his BA and most of his MA, and was very fortunate to have lived with a renowned scholar and journalist, and hopes to bring his experiences abroad to his classroom. As a budding Hispanist, he presented a research paper at an academic conference and is looking forward to do more of the same.

Jonathan Sirois left Trinity at school year’s end to teach Spanish at Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts. We thank him for his service to the School and wish him the best.

Jennifer won three residency grants for the summer: the Anderson Ranch Art Educator Institute in Colorado funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts Technical Assistant Grant in Tennessee, and the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Technical Assistant Grant in Maine. In each residency she was provided with tuition, room and board, a studio space, and various art workshops and lectures.

Jennifer has been selected to show her ceramic work at the Nippon Gallery at the Nippon Club at 145 West 57th Street, between 6th and 7th avenues. The show is up from 19-22 October. Gallery hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday.

Jennifer's work was selected for the 13th Annual Tokyo-New York Friendship Ceramic Competition where the gallery has chosen fifty American and fifty Japanese ceramic artists to compete for cash prizes. The grand prize is a round-trip ticket to Tokyo! The reception and award presentation is on 21 October from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Come check out the show!

James “left Richard Garten’s Trinity in 1973 [he had been teaching Grade Four there since 1966] and taught in Japan, Germany, and again with Mr. Garten at Gulf Stream School in Palm Beach County, Florida. In 2006, he ended forty years of service teaching geography at St. Bernard’s School. His wife, Judith Richardson, died in 2003 at Newport. James, a cancer survivor, now spends his time on the Upper West Side, in his garden in Dutchess County, or traveling (depending on the annuity and the kindness of friends). He is the author of the unpublished children’s storybook, Fred and Felicity, Fast Friends, and a guide for young adults, Manners: A Course of Study, and play, A Muse Bouche.”

Rene updates: “I retired from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1987 and moved to sunny Florida. I played tennis until age forced me to take reading and cross-word puzzles as hobbies. I have a wife with three children and the family is in good health. Enjoying life at eighty-nine and still remembering many of my good students at Trinity.”

Rene writes, "From Trinity, I went to teach at Farleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford, New Jersey until 1987. I moved to Florida and spent my time playing tennis, reading, and servicing the community whenever called. I will be ninety-one this month (November), and my wife and children are all well. I have a great grandson (seven months old). We are all happy and remembering with pride my three years at Trinity."

Paul has been working on his music. He recorded an album, American Redstarts, at a studio in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He also created a Web site for his music at www.paulsigismondi.com. He recently returned to New York and started teaching at The Collegiate School.

Kara has announced that she will be leaving Trinity at the end of the school year. She wishes to shift her energies to caring for her family, and in addition, she hopes to find opportunities to feed her passion of working with student athletes. She writes, “…Serving as an administrator has been a fulfilling learning experience. I have benefited tremendously from working closely with the talented and committed people in the Middle School and throughout Trinity's administration. In addition, I have enjoyed the opportunity to develop and implement new programs in the Middle School. I have been very fortunate and sincerely appreciate the many opportunities and experiences I have had so early in my career.”

Judy Shufro, who taught art at Trinity from 1970 to 1992, has an upcoming art exhibit in San Diego, California, at Bread & Cie, a bakery owned by a Trinity alumnus, Charles Kaufman '66. Judy writes, "How coincidental is that? I taught Art at Trinity for twenty-two years. I bought the School's first kiln, set up the shop/arts program, designed the Brass Pavilion art room for the elementary school, and was a Trinity Faculty Fellow. Hello to all my former students!"

The exhibit, titled "Dancers and Cows," will be on view from 3-31 December 2013 at Bread & Cie, located at 350 University Avenue in San Diego. View Judy's work at www.judithshufro.com.

Danielle left Trinity to pursue her MFA in film studies at the University of Utah, with a concentration in the filming of dance.

Bill Shipley sent us a couple of photos from his second year of teaching in 1982. "I believe the location is Judy Shufro's art room in the Upper School. We were building a box kite with strips of wood and painted mylar, and we flew the kite at the end of the year field trip with the Lower School at Bear Mountain. Trinity was then an all boys school in the Lower and Middle School. I wish I could remember what grade level this was, and I only recall first names for the boys."

Bill is now a docent at the Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota Duluth, his alma mater. An article about Bill and his interest in art was published by the UMD Alumni Association online at http://umdalumni.com/tweed-docent-bill-shipley-a-work-of-art/.

Joel Shapiro left Trinity at the end of the school year. During the end-of-year luncheon, Upper School Principal Jessica Bagby gave these remarks: "Joel, you are one-of-a-kind. Your signature passion for history and politics and your love for vigorous conversation with students and colleagues about both make you unforgettable. A man of conscience and conviction, you have inspired your colleagues and protégés to carry your light forward at Trinity and beyond. Thank you for your dedication to teaching history and for modeling civic engagement for two decades at Trinity."

Renée and Anne Youngling met while working together at Trinity in the athletics department. They were married on 14 February 2009 in Westport, Connecticut and are thrilled to announce the birth of their baby boy, Max Gustav Seufert-Youngling, on 3 June 2009. Renée is a school counselor at East Haven High School and Anne is a family practice physician at Guilford Family Practice.

Jennifer, her husband Mark, and daughter, Mia, welcomed Milo to the world on 7 January 2010 at 11:52 a.m.

Jen left Trinity at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year to relocate to Summit, New Jersey, where her husband is now working. We thank her for her service to Trinity School and wish her and her family well!

Ryan is in a play, an evening of comedy called All in the Timing by David Ives, presented by the Heavenly Rest Players. There are two performances: 24 April at 8:00 p.m. and 1 May at 8:00 p.m. at the Church of the Heavenly Rest at 2 East 90th Street. Tickets can be purchased at the door or on www.smarttix.com for $20.00. Also in the cast is current faculty member Ann Strohmeier.

Ian Schlesinger is currently the Mac systems support engineer at Trinity. He has been with the Trinity community for one year now and has brought a can-do attitude and personable customer service manner since first starting. Ian has over fifteen years of experience in the IT industry troubleshooting and supporting Mac and Windows based computing environments. Before joining Trinity, Ian was the technical lead of support at BMG Columbia House and a network analyst within the Ascent Media Corporation. He holds a BS in environmental sciences from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Some of his hobbies include hiking, cycling, and cross-country skiing.

Trinity's "Mac Guy," Ian Schlesinger, left Trinity in June to pursue a new opportunity within the corporate information technology world. We wish him well in his new endeavor and thank him for his dedicated work here over the past two years.

Emily and current faculty member Brigitte Bentele have their watercolor paintings included an exhibit entitled “Watercolors from the National Academy of Fine Arts” at the Yeager Community Room Gallery at the Bronxville Public Library from 2 February through 25 February 2010. The opening reception is Thursday 4 February from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. For directions, please visit the Bronxville Public Library website at
www.villageofbronxville.com

Gabriela Saldana is no stranger to Trinity’s Lower School. She has been in Ms. Alvarez and Ms. Strohmeier’s classrooms as a first grade assistant teacher since 2009. She has prior experience in both the first and fourth grade levels at PS 234 and The School at Columbia University. Gabriela completed her graduate degree in museum education with a childhood certification for grades one through six from Bank Street College of Education. In previous summers, Gabriela worked as a counselor for Bank Street Summer Camp’s Spanish Immersion program. This year, she has dedicated her summer to continue to build on her professional growth. She attended workshops on project-based learning in the classroom through The School at Columbia’s Teach 21 institute and completed a week long writing seminar at the Teachers College world-renowned Reading and Writing Project. Her museum experiences include the Neuberger Museum of Art’s education department and in many capacities at Wave Hill, a public garden and cultural center in the Bronx. Her extensive work in Wave Hill’s education, horticulture, and art departments has deeply influenced her interest in building connections between youth and nature.

Gabriella Saldana left Trinity at school year’s end to move with her fiancé to Singapore. She will be teaching first grade at Overseas Family School (OFS). We thank her for her exceptional service to the School and wish her the best in this exciting new endeavor.

Lisa Jo Sagolla, who taught dance at Trinity from 1989 to 1990, has authored a new book, Rock 'n' Roll Dances of the 1950s, published by Greenwood Press in October 2011. The book explores dance as a reflection and expression of cultural trends.

Susan is leaving Trinity at the end of the school year to work alongside her husband in the family business, to be closer to home, and to spend more time with her youngest son.

Elisabeth was recently honored by Trinity for her twenty-five years of service to the School. Thank you, Elisabeth, for all you have given, and will continue to give, to the School!

After twenty-six years of teaching mathematics at Trinity, Elisabeth Ruedy announced her retirement. We thank her for her extraordinary contributions to the School and our students and wish her well in this next chapter of her life.

Stanislav is a graduate civil engineering student at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University with a focus towards instrumentation design with technical skills in structural, soil, and materials engineering. He has extensive teaching experience ranging from real world engineering projects to FIRST Lego League and FIRST Tech Challenge competitions. Stanislav tries to incorporate the concepts of invention and innovation into his lessons in order to instill the importance of research and engineering. He has competed as a team captain in National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Lunabotics Mining Competition which involved the construction of a large lunar excavating vehicle. His design won the Judges’ Innovation Award and the $10,000 Paul Soros Prize for Creative Engineering. Stan is fluent in C++, MATLAB, Xcode and LabVIEW programming languages. His favorite activity is allowing students to ask any question they want during the last few minutes of class, and he provides the answers on the spot or after some research.

Jerome was recently elected vice president of the South County Golf League, a league which includes eighteen golf and country clubs in the Southern Florida region.

Jerome writes, "As captain of the Aberdeen Golf and Country Club golf team in West Boynton Beach, Florida, I have led them to their second season in the playoffs of the South County Golf League. I've enjoyed nine years in retirement at the Aberdeen Golf and Country Club."

Patricia writes, “First, a thank you to Sue Hipkens for her help in advising me when I began volunteering in the library at PS 166, Trinity’s neighbor on W 89th Street. We are off to a good start now, and happily, the Director of Community Service, Michael Barbaro, is offering Upper School students the opportunity to do community service with us, helping to keep a public school library open in this time of budget cuts. Other volunteers are welcome. If you are interested, let me know at [email protected].”

Brenda began working at Trinity in May 2010 after spending a few years at Bellmarc Realty. She enjoys writing poetry and has won the Editor’s Excellence Award for 2007 and 2008 from poetry.com. One of her poems entitled “Regrets” was published in a book of poems titled Collected Whispers from The International Library of Poetry, 2008.

After seven years, Carole Ries decided to continue her work in education at the Solomon Schechter School in Westchester, just a few blocks from her new home. We thank Carole for all she has contributed to the school during her time with us.

Carole was recently named math curriculum and instruction coordinator in the lower school at the Solomon Schechter School of Westchester.

John retired after twenty-five years teaching mathematics and computer science at Trinity. He is enjoying retirement in Maine.

John writes, "I am still enjoying retirement in Maine. Last September, we sold our condo in Stamford and have become full-time maniacs. We have found Portland to be a real "foodie" city with some very good cultural events. In addition to taking our dogs to two nursing homes, Marsha and I have been volunteering at the Animal Welfare Society and the Saco Food Pantry. We've also managed to get in some travel. After Thanksgiving, we had a very pleasant cruise to the Caribbean. In February, we took a cruise out of Venice, Italy and went to the Eastern Mediterranean. Our itinerary included Egypt, but that was changed to two days in Israel. In May, we visited an old friend in Florida. He took us to a musical (Beehive - about the women rock singers of the 60s), and we saw Charlie Fornara, who was piano player, conductor and musical director. Charlie is doing a lot of work in musical theater in the Naples, Florida area. Now, we''re looking forward to a wonderful summer watching the Red Sox and our local Portland Sea Dogs."

At thirty-nine years of teaching here at Trinity School, Christine Reilly is retiring at the end of the 2012-2013 academic year. We thank her for her extraordinary service to the School and wish her the best on her retirement.

Joanne is working at the Society of the Four Arts library in Palm Beach, Florida, and enjoying it, but misses the interaction with the kids at Trinity.

Rachel gave birth to Persephone “Posey” Lilac Ring on 3 November 2009. Posey weighed six pounds three ounces.

Rachel left Trinity at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year. She relocated with her family to New Jersey, where she will serve as a consultant, revive her work in jewelry design, and spend more time with her family. We thank her for her years spent at Trinity!

Charles joined the technology team this July and has spent the summer familiarizing himself with Trinity’s campus and its technology systems. He has supported technology in scholastic environments for most of his career, most recently at Collegiate School. Charles enjoys spending his free time traveling and eating new and interesting cuisine, most recently the fresh fish of Croatia’s Dalmatian coast. Along with dining at the many interesting restaurants New York City has to offer, he enjoys the variety of street food that can be found all over the city.

Julie now teaches studio at Horace Mann’s nursery division in Manhattan.

Joanne McGowan is on medical leave as she undergoes knee replacement surgery. During her absence, Kimberly Pozner will serve as one of our reading specialists. She has experience as a learning specialist at such schools as Claremont Preparatory, Stephen Gaynor and the Spence School, and has been working as a private tutor since 1996. As part of the Spence School Resource Center, Kimberly has conducted several parent presentations. She loves spending as much time as possible with her two sons; Sam, age nine, and Jack, age five, enjoying all that New York City has to offer. Kimberly loves to travel, go to the movies and is an avid reader. She particularly enjoys yoga.

Bruce Posner began working part-time at Trinity during the month of June when he began overseeing the updating of Trinity’s technological infrastructure. Bruce has over thirty years of experience in information technology consulting and general management. Since 2005, he has been running Bruce Posner Consulting, where he has been providing comprehensive services to clients including strategic technology planning, project and staff management, IT assessments, business process analysis and redesign, website assessment and design, and education in best practices and products. For ten years prior he worked as director of technology and as an assistant head of school at Ethical Culture Fieldston School. Bruce has two albums available of music by British Isle composers. He is associate editor of the Journal of Urban Technology. Bruce lives in Riverdale with his wife, Sandy, and his son and step-daughter, Nathaniel and Laura. He is very pleased to be joining the Trinity team.

Denise is relinquishing her position as science department head at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year so that she can return to full-time teaching here at Trinity. Establishing our partnership with the Harlem DNA Lab, working tirelessly to foster greater cohesion in her sprawling K-12 science department, advocating passionately for a three-year science graduation requirement to validate the school's commitment to excellence in science education, Denise has accomplished much in such a short time, and we are grateful for her willingness to serve the school in this leadership role since 2009.

As a child growing up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Laura Peyton attended several private schools. Raised by classical musicians, she studied violin for ten years and learned to speak French fluently during her nine years at École Bilingue (now called the International School of Boston), a bilingual school then located in Arlington, Massachusetts. Laura learned her love of visual arts at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. After graduating from Boston University in 2002 with a BA in sociology, she moved to New York City and helped start a small jewelry design company based in Brooklyn. Laura attended the School of Visual Arts as a graduate student from 2008-2010 where she received an MFA in illustration and had several exhibitions of her work.

Frances and her husband Martin relocated to London where she has found a position teaching biology at Epsom College. They traveled to Botswana during the summer of 2009.

Geoff Peppiatt has announced his retirement: “I will be retiring at the end of the current academic year after thirty-one years of the most enjoyable and stimulating teaching experiences one could possibly imagine. I still derive undiminished pleasure from being in a class with a group of students—in particular, sophomores—who are so engaging and endearing. The other side of the coin is that June and I have so many interests and things to do that we will be very busy and need time to fit it all in.”

We thank Geoff for his three decades of service to Trinity School and wish him the best on his retirement.

While earning his master’s degree in childhood education, Tyler served as an assistant teacher at Trevor Day School in first and second grade, where he also coached soccer and track and field. Tyler is no stranger to Trinity as he attended school here from Kindergarten through Grade Three and worked as a group counselor at the Trinity Day Camp. Tyler is a self-proclaimed “movie dork,” and enjoys nothing more than talking about movies with other film buffs. Tyler also loves to exercise, and spent much of the summer in gyms and yoga studios across the city.

Lee is leaving Trinity at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year to move to Washington, D.C. where she has accepted the position of head of upper school at Sidwell Friends School. She will be rejoining her husband, who moved there during the summer to work for the Environmental Protection Agency. The text of her announcement follows:
Dear Upper School Faculty,

It has been an honor and a privilege to be a part of this extraordinary community for the past five and half years, and the news I am sharing with you is accompanied by bittersweet feelings. I have accepted the position of Upper School Principal at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. for the next school year. The prospect of rejoining my husband and many long-time friends, the opportunity to serve another wonderful school, and the chance for a new adventure are all extremely exciting, and I’m looking to the future with great anticipation. However, I will no longer have the benefit of daily interactions with dear friends and colleagues, students, and parents who have made my experience at Trinity so rewarding and so thrilling.
I will do everything in my power to make the transition to a new principal go as smoothly as possible. I am deeply grateful for all that Trinity has given me, and will miss everyone. Thank you for your support, for your kindness, and for all that I have learned from you.
With much love,
Lee

After enjoying his thirty-seventh year of teaching at Trinity School, Walter decided to retire at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year. He is grateful for the many rewarding years he has taught at Trinity, and he will miss the students, fellow teachers, administrators, and staff.

John Allman, head of Trinity School, read the following dedication out loud during the final faculty and staff luncheon of the 2010-2011 academic year: "The year was 1974. Richard Nixon had just become the first President to resign from office. The cost of a gallon of gas was fifty-five cents, and the cost of a year in Trinity’s Kindergarten was $1350. And, after working for five years as a college professor, Walter Ostapiak came to Trinity to teach math in what was then called our Upper Middle division. A few years later, Walter added to his responsibilities the task of serving as the Eighth Grade Form Master, a precursor of our class deans today, and eventually Walter’s teaching responsibilities moved from Middle to Upper School. As his history at Trinity suggests, Walter quickly became known as a teacher who demonstrated a 'total commitment to Trinity' and who 'could be counted on to carry out any extra assignment.' One of his numerous department heads repeatedly described him as a 'mainstay of the department' known for his 'deep concern for students.' Another of his colleagues saw in Walter the essence and embodiment of faculty excellence at Trinity School—'he sets high standards for his students and always does everything he can to help them reach those standards.' As any of his students or colleagues will quickly report when asked about what they appreciate about Mr. O, Walter was also blessed with a distinctive sense of humor that he used to enliven his work with us. A man of mirth, he is also a man of quiet, yet fervent faith, and, in Walter, I suspect that the two are related, for I think he, like Karl Barth, understands in a profound way that 'laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.' Walter, for thirty-seven years, you have graced us with your humor, your dedication to Trinity, your care for others—students and colleagues—and your total commitment to teaching. We are so grateful for your time with us. Please join me in thanking Mr. O for his thirty-seven years of distinctive service to Trinity School."

Upon his retirement, Walter donated two books to the Trinity School library: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain and The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics by C.S. Lewis.

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc is the story of the fifteenth-century martyred teenage patron saint of France. Twain said of this work: "I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others need no preparation and got none." Twain considered this book—his last finished novel—to be his most significant.

C. S. Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century and arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day. His major contributions in literary criticism, children's literature, fantasy literature, and popular theology brought him international renown and acclaim. The Chronicles of Narnia was for decades the world's bestselling fantasy series for children. Although it was eventually superseded by Harry Potter, the series still holds a firm place in children's literature and the culture at large. The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics contains his seven most popular works.

Kelly grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and is relocating to New York City from Middletown, Delaware, where she has been teaching physics for six years at St. Andrew’s School. Her goal is to make physics accessible to all students. Kelly writes the blog, Physics! Blog!, and is active in the online physics teaching community. She enjoys playing the flute and learning and playing other instruments.

Kelly O’Shea left Trinity at year’s end and will be teaching at Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School in the fall.We wish her well as she pursues this new professional opportunity.

Tristina is currently teaching English as a foreign language in a high school in Castellón, Spain.

Tristina, former special events assistant, is obtaining her teacher certification at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition, she is working as special events assistant for JDRF (Austin Chapter) and is currently managing a silent and live auction in order to fund research to cure Type 1 diabetes.

After thirty-three years of dedicated service to Trinity School, Patty Niles retired at school year’s end. She wanted all to know that she feels very fortunate to have worked with such memorable colleagues and students, and she looks forward to spending her post-Trinity years with family in Henryville, Pennsylvania, and St. Augustine, Florida. We thank her for her wonderful service to the School and wish her the best in her retirement.

This past year Jyoti was a learning specialist at the Packer Collegiate Institute as a leave replacement. She has been in education for thirteen years and has had the opportunity to teach in Honduras as well as at three New York City charter schools where she served as academic interventionist, and an English as a Second Language and literacy teacher. Jyoti’s interests include Spanish, international travel, and the book club she founded here in the city five years ago that still meets each month. She is very much looking forward to supporting the Upper School students at Trinity in reaching their goals of academic success.

New Baby Girl

After four years at Trinity, Hannah McCollum decided to leave at year’s end in order to spend time with her family and explore new professional opportunities. We thank her for her service to the School.

Recently, after fours years of intensive study, Kate was awarded a masters degree in classics from Columbia University.

In spring 2010, Kate was awarded the Rea Silvia Borza Scholarship of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece where she studied during the past summer. In August, she recorded “Shir Ha-Shirim,” a piece for an unaccompanied female vocal quintet for avant-garde composer John Zorn. She premiered the piece in New York in 2007 and has since toured with it in Paris and Milan. She also performed Zorn’s “Frammenti Del Sappho” at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in November 2010.

Most importantly, Kate is engaged to her college classmate Karl Muchantef, and they will be married at the Yale Club on 8 January 2010.

Kate left Trinity at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year to accompany her husband-to-be as he begins a medical fellowship in Philadelphia.

Chris Schoberl, head of the Middle School, read the following dedication out loud during the final faculty and staff luncheon of the 2010-2011 academic year:

"Kate has been at Trinity for six years. This was her first teaching job. She and her husband are moving to Philadelphia for Carl’s one-year fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, so she is using it as a window to explore some long-standing interests. She will be working on two psychology research projects: one at the University of Pennsylvania that looks at worry in the brain and one at Swarthmore that targets early adolescent girls in schools.

"In addition, she will be taking psychology classes, and maybe some education classes, to follow up on an interest in psychology that has grown over her years at Trinity. She will continue to sing professionally in New York, (she has a premiere in December!) and hopes to build up some new contacts in Philadelphia. She also hopes to get back on the Schuylkill River, where I rowed in high school, and participate in some regattas.

Says Kate, 'I am heartbroken at leaving my students and colleagues at the best job I can imagine. Anyone who has made the 7th grade trip to the musical, Wicked, will recognize the lyric that sums it up for me: 'Because I knew you, I’ve been changed for good.''

"When speaking of Kate, her colleagues have said: 'I wish I could have had the opportunity to sit in on her classes.' She is filled with wisdom and kindness, not simply for her subject matter and her approach to children, but for her colleagues as well. She is thoughtful, smart, friendly, and instantly accessible to anyone needing her ear. Kate never lets anything ruffle her feathers. She is balanced, and strong, yet sensitive and a good listener. Whenever I need an extra shoulder or an extra ear, Kate is there for me, and my only hope is that I have somehow been a source of comfort and respite for her as much as she has been for me. Kate is a full on member of the community, a professional in every sense of the word, she always has the best interests of the students in mind, and a great heart to share with each of them."

Peter gave a lecture on photographer Danny Lyon at the Hillwood Art Museum at Long Island University on 22 October 2009. The museum exhibited Lyon’s series “The Bikeriders,” 1960s photographs of the infamous Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club.

Peter was asked to define a critical context for looking at the current show, Bluebird, by the Italian photographer, Frank Dituri, which is at Long Island University’s Hillwood Art Museum.

Peter, with the help of a Trinity School Parent Association grant, spent six weeks, from 3 July 2010 to 16 August 2010, photographing significant British and European glass houses. These photographs are added to his American portfolio of orangeries. Peter filled twenty-eight rolls of film at such places as Kew Gardens and Chiswick House in London; Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England; the National Botanic Garden of Belgium; Strasbourg, France; the Jardin botanique de Nancy, France; and the greenhouse in the Paris Museum of Natural History.

He is currently editing the work and looking for a suitable venue to exhibit the photographs.

Peter Moriarty published introductory notes about work by fellow Visual Arts Department teachers Bruce Edelstein and Thomas Holton that is showing at Hillwood Art Museum at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University from 12 September - 5 November 2011.

Peter has had one of his photographs added to the permanent collection of the Worcester Art Museum. Since he started teaching at Trinity in 2002, the Princeton Art Museum, Wesleyan University, and the Yale University Art Gallery have acquired photographs from his Warm Roomseries. He has appreciated all the institutional support that has helped in this effort.

Patricia left Trinity at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year to spend more time with her family. We thank her for her time spent teaching at Trinity School.

"Patricia Mennitt has been a godsend to Trinity’s biology program," says Upper School Principal Jessica Bagby, "Picking up classes we needed covered and doing so with wonderful professionalism and care. Her students have found her to be a devoted and caring teacher and her colleagues have appreciated her generosity and collaborative spirit in their work together. Patricia decided earlier this year that she needed to take a hiatus from teaching to prioritize her young family. We wish her the very best and thank her for her good work her over the past two years."

Pat retired at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year and relinquished her seat on New Jersey Transit. Among other things, she plans to travel with her husband, who retired the previous year.

John Allman, head of Trinity School, read the following dedication out loud during the final faculty and staff luncheon of the 2010-2011 academic year: "From the day Pat Mead joined our Middle School’s Learning Center as a learning specialist eight years ago, she has been an extraordinarily skilled and patient educator as well as wonderful colleague, always willing to help out anyone in need, in whatever way she could. Her colleagues describe her as 'stellar,' 'wonderful,' 'exceptional,' 'always advocating for children first,' and 'a model of collegiality.' One grateful parent described Pat this way: 'Pat has been nothing short of a life saver.' And in trying to express one of the secrets of Pat’s phenomenal success with all kinds of students, one of you said this about Pat: 'Pat brings a sense of joy to her work, a joy that is infectious and that helps students to connect to her.' Pat, we will miss you, and, as you travel and volunteer in your years after Trinity, we hope and trust that your days will be filled with the same joy with which you filled our lives here. Please join me in thanking Ms. Mead for her extraordinary service to Trinity School for the past eight years."

Upon her retirement, Pat donated this book to the Trinity School library: Morocco: Designs from Casablanca to Marrakesh by Lisl Dennis and Landt Dennis.

The book captures the wonderful experiences Pat had while living in Morocco during the Peace Corps many moons ago. Pat hopes it will inspire its readers to explore this wonderful country.

Gerry is an experienced independent school learning and literacy specialist and a dedicated advocate for students with learning differences. She comes to us from the Blue School and The Storm King School where she also taught English literature. Gerry is affiliated with the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English. She has particular interest in helping students find their authentic voices in writing. Gerry enjoys reading and writing poetry and spending time with her family, which includes her husband, three sons, and one dog.

Gerry McNally left us at year’s end to devote her energies to private practice in Orange County, New York. While she will miss her colleagues and students here, she also reports that she will not miss the commute! We thank her for her service to Trinity and wish her the best.

Nine years ago, Erin McMenamin moved to New York to pursue a career in acting. During this time, she has had the opportunity to perform in several Off-Broadway and regional theatres including several summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. She taught acting to young students for many years, most recently working with Child’s Play NY in Brooklyn. She is pursuing a master’s degree from Bank Street College of Education. Originally from Philadelphia, Erin currently lives in Astoria, Queens with her husband, James. She is thrilled to be a new member of the Trinity School community. Go Phillies!

Erin and James welcomed a baby to the world on 15 March 2014. Erin writes, "Greetings from the nursery! Joseph Edward McMenamin wasted absolutely no time of spring break to arrive. I must have been in early labor without knowing it at dismissal on Friday, because he graced us with his presence early Saturday morning! Weighing in at a tiny five pounds, thirteen ounces, Joseph was three weeks early and nearly born on the Queensboro Bridge! It was a wild and fast delivery. James and I are absolutely in love and grateful that everyone is very healthy and happy."

Congratulations to the family!

Kaori is leaving Trinity to teach closer to her home at Rye Country Day School. We thank her for her time with us at Trinity, and wish her the best!

Joanne was recently honored by Trinity for her twenty-five years of service to the School. Thank you, Joanne, for all you have given, and will continue to give, to the School!

Joanne is on medical leave as she undergoes knee replacement surgery. During her absence, Kimberly Pozner will serve as one of our reading specialists. She has experience as a learning specialist at such schools as Claremont Preparatory, Stephen Gaynor and the Spence School, and has been working as a private tutor since 1996.

Gene writes, “I spend a good deal of my time birding and photographing the birds I find. I am involved in a Haiku Kai group as well. It seems a natural fit with my love of being outdoors.”

Maxine, who taught history at Trinity School from 1990 to 2006, recently published a book, Letters of Recommendation. She writes, "The idea for Letters germinated about seven years ago. I wanted to write to my students about the issues their schooling didn't address, specifically the difference between success and fulfillment, getting schooled and achieving an education, entitlement and privilege, study and learning. I also wanted to recommend that the responsibility for recognizing and acting upon those differences rests with each person."

Letters of Recommendation features correspondence between a student and teacher. From the back of the book: "Emilia, a girl who seemingly has it all, asks an admired teacher, Doc, for a letter of recommendation supporting early admission to a top college. Emilia withdraws the request, beginning to doubt what she's doing, and why, and what she really wants in life. Doc senses her unease. Letters result, back and forth through the school year, with subtle attention to the girl's emerging sense of self and the teacher's presence, both humane and professional. The year ends, the exchange stops; life's externals appear settled for now, with the larger questions deepened, but still open, as they always are."

Maxine continues, "Letters is a quiet book that depicts what goes on as a good education takes place. It affirms a student's self-reliance in the face of felt uncertainties. It also affirms a teacher's trust that her presence as a full, human person has value and meaning in carrying on the work of education. The letters create a pedagogical dialogue."

Letters of Recommendation is currently available at https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Recommendation-Maxine-McClintock/dp/193782800X.

Due to the snowy weather, the reception of Marisol's and her sister's show has been rescheduled for Wednesday, 9 February 2011 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. "New Works on Paper by Two Sisters" is at the Spence Gallery at the Spence School on 22 East 91st Street, 7th floor. The exhibition is on view from 26 January - 3 March 2011 and the gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The show also features the work of her sister, Sylvia Martinez.

Marisol is also in another group show titled "Re-Turn: Barnard Alumnae Exhibition" at the Louis McCagg Gallery at Barnard College. The reception is Thursday, 10 February 2011 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The Louis McCagg Gallery is located on the fourth floor of The Diana Center in the Barnard College campus, and the exhibition is on view from 7 - 25 February 2011.

As part of the Seventh Annual PEN World Voices of International Literature event and with Ugly Duckling Presse,
Marisol read poems from her unfinished illustrated novel at the High Line in Chelsea on 1 May with poets Jen Bervin, Julian T. Brolaski, and Eugene Ostashevsky.

Last year, Ugly Duckling Presse published a second printing of Marisol's book After you, dearest language.

Opening on 15 May 2015 at National Academy Museum and School in the show, Creative Mischief, is a video by Visual Arts Department Faculty Member Marisol Limon Martinez titled, "You Are Red Just Like Me."

The show runs until 24 May 2015.

https://www.nationalacademy.org/creative-mischief-2015-2/

Marisol Limon Martinez’s third book, "Via Dissimulata," uses the book as a frame and a portal: phrases and images echo, cycle, and stutter as the book-length poem accrues meanings both archetypal and personal.

Classics Faculty Member Bill Pagonis provided the Latin translations for the book.

The New York City book release reading and performance will take place on Tuesday, 9 June at 6:30 p.m. at Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

To order a copy of the book: www.octopusbooks.net

For more information about Ms. Martinez: http://mlimonmartinezart.com

Zev Markenson is Trinity's new director of technology. Zev possesses both the technical savvy as well as management skills needed to support the changing technological needs of our school. He is passionate about working closely and collaboratively with others to solve problems and explore options that will best serve individual as well as institutional needs.

Zev will be working closely with our interim director of technology, Bruce Posner, to ensure that his transition is smooth and that the School’s technology is operating effectively as we begin the 2012-2013 academic year.

As a result of the School's decision to restructure responsibilities in the Upper School administration, Margery Mandell will be leaving Trinity after fifteen years of exemplary work, most recently administering the School's internship program, directing the Upper School's Community Time programming, and overseeing Upper School foreign travel opportunities. We wish her well on her future endeavors.

Rob Mancabelli is passionately committed to transforming teaching and learning through the use of technology. “In the Internet era we can learn from anyone, anywhere, at any time—an incredible game changer for the field of education. Now students have the power not only to work with the teacher in their classroom, but with ‘teachers’ from across the globe. The question for schools like Trinity is, ‘How can we build on the incredible education that we already provide by having students and teachers construct personal learning networks of people, resources, and information from around the world?’”

Rob developed his philosophy and approach while working in two schools over the past fifteen years. Most recently, as director of information systems for Hunterdon Central, his programs were nationally recognized for using technology to improve teaching and learning. At Central, every day many students in language classes spoke with native student speakers around the world. English classes blogged with Pulitzer Prize winning journalists and award-winning novelists. Students studied science by bringing scientists into their classrooms. Student engagement in those classes was remarkable, and graduates received not only top notch skills for college, but also a lasting global network of teachers and colleagues.

An active speaker within the field of educational technology, Rob has presented at venues such as Princeton University, Columbia University, the National Education Computing Conference, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Leadership Conference. He serves on the National K-12 Advisory Council for Dell Computer, and he was part of a statewide task force assigned to redesign the high school experience for all students in the state of New Jersey. He has his national certification in project management, and he is working on his MBA from the MIT Sloan Executive Education program.

Rob is looking forward to working with Trinity School and discussing these ideas with an interested community. “I hear a different message at Trinity than at other schools. They understand that we are living in a very different world and that education is going to need to incorporate new tools into teaching and learning. The opportunities here are incredibly exciting, and I look forward to engaging with teachers, students, and parents in a conversation about how to use technology in ways that improves learning for everyone.”

Rob and his wife, Gayle Allen, associate head, are leaving Trinity in June 2011. They are moving to Boston, Massachusetts to enjoy opportunities with MIT Sloan School of Management (both are in the MBA program) and the broader field of education.

Jane is retiring at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year after over four decades at Trinity. She writes:
"When Mick Jagger and I started our respective careers back in the ‘60s, I assumed our professional paths would run parallel for some time but that Mick would retire before I did. After all, moving around under bright lights like a rooster on acid (Richard Belzer’s phrase) is more taxing than dealing with a room full of seventh graders, if only by a little. Imagine my surprise then that I’ve decided to retire in June while Mick and the lads are still going full tilt.
"I came to Trinity in the fall of 1970 when the students were all male as were nearly all the teachers above fifth grade. We were three females that year (me in English, Chris Heyworth in history, Andrea Agrell in French), three women not allowed to use either of the restrooms in the faculty lounge. But I loved the teaching, loved the students--and that love has persisted for forty-two years. (Since I’ve taught between 2,000 and 2,500 students here, it’s remarkable that I can cite only three who were unalloyed non-pleasures.)

"And while we’re doing the math, I’ll note that I’ve served under seven heads of school, eight Upper School principals, and eight Middle School principals; I’ve learned something valuable from working with each of them. I’ll leave Trinity with bittersweet feelings but with deep gratitude for a career I love. There’s a rumor that there’s life beyond the professional arena, and, it’s okay, Mick, I’ll be waiting for you. Meanwhile, I look forward to a fine second semester."

We would like to thank Jane for her extraordinary contributions to the School.

An update on Sanjiv and Nika Skvir-Maliakal: “After leaving Trinity, we moved to the San Francisco Bay Area – Sanj was teaching sixth and eighth grade science at the San Francisco Day School and Nika returned to the Prospect Sierra School to teach eighth grade humanities. We got married, traveled a lot (Hawaii, Costa Rica, and India have been highlight trips), managed to do a lot of hiking and windsurfing, and then had two twin girls, Madeline and Katherine, in September 2007. This past summer, we moved back to the East Coast to be closer to family. Sanj is currently teaching sixth and eighth grade science at New Canaan Country School while Nika is at home with the girls. We’d love to hear from former students and/or colleagues. Our e-mail address, [email protected], is a good way to reach us. Hope this finds everyone well!”

Bill is retiring at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year after thirty-one years as a skilled teacher, "form master," assistant principal, principal, and department head. We thank him for his many contributions to the School and wish him the best in his retirement.

Heather is managing the spring benefit during Li-An Previn’s maternity leave. She holds a BA in vocal performance from Vanderbilt University and her MA in arts administration from Indiana University. Most recently, Heather was special events assistant at Carnegie Hall and held positions in marketing, development, and event planning for several organizations prior to that. She is an accomplished cabaret singer who performs locally every month.

Heather is now Special Events Coordinator at the New York City Ballet.

Li-Dai, who has taught math in the Upper School since 2006, will be leaving Trinity to teach math and Chinese literature at Avenues: The World School. We thank him for his time with us, and wish him the best on his next journey as a educator.

Jason left Trinity to start two new businesses. He is part-owner of Unleash: Brooklyn, New York’s largest holistic animal care center for dogs and cats located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Jay is also the founder of Dog Habitat Inc., a not-for-profit rescue shelter that will rehabilitate and find homes for neglected and abandoned dogs.

Jay Lombard moved to Portland, Maine, in January 2013 and launched Finest Kind Tea. Read the story behind the product in an article published in the Bangor Daily News at http://bangordailynews.com/2013/12/10/living/tea-for-one-maine-entrepreneur-offering-a-healthy-alternative-to-soda/. He is also a finalist in The Next Big Food Thing, run by Fresh Direct. Good luck, Jay!

Diane writes, "I wrote and published a book about my experiences seeking a quality education for my son who has special needs. My search led us to a Long Island district committed to inclusion." The book, Beyond Words, Reflections On Our Journey to Inclusion, was published by White hat press in 2010. It can be found at Amazon.com.

Stephen collaborated with artist Beth Haber on a commissioned work that was on display at Riverwinds Gallery, 172 Main Street, Beacon, New York. Around twenty artists were invited to create works for display in store windows on Main Street in Beacon, a thriving arts scene and home to Dia: Beacon. The work was on display until 12 September and consisted of site-specific installations of mixed media including watercolor renderings, twine, copper screening, and live digital animation. The work was in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage up the Hudson River. The texts from the pieces were taken from the journals of Robert Juet, who accompanied Hudson on the exploration.

Sarah writes, "I'm excited to share the news that my husband and I welcomed into the world a beautiful baby boy, Elijah Hopper Kalista, on 10 April 2014 at 1:21 a.m. He weighed in at eight pounds, seven ounces, and measured twenty-and-a-half inches. All three of us are doing well and are greatly enjoying each others' company!" Congratulations to the family!

Congratulations to Colin and his wife, Sue, who gave birth to a boy, Kirin, on 4 July 2011 at 7:53 a.m. All in the family are doing well!

Colin is leaving Trinity to teach middle school math at Brooklyn's Packer Collegiate School. We thank him for his time with us, and wish him luck on his next endeavor!

Judd writes, “I enjoyed my time at Trinity very much in 2002 and I have appreciated staying in touch with Rev. Tim Morehouse, with whom I taught in the religion department. Since then, I have been continuing to teach religious and Jewish studies at the Perelman Jewish Day School, at Temple University as an adjunct professor, and now in a new position as director of Jewish Studies at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy. A book I have written about character education has just been published by Praeger Publications, so there have been some exciting opportunities for me since leaving New York. It is called Sowing the Seeds of Character: The Moral Education of Adolescents in Public and Private Schools.”

Robin Lester, head of school at Trinity from 1975 to 1986, has written a novel, Princes of New York, which was published in November 2013. The book "is the story of a Manhattan headmaster's battle with a Trump-like trustee over the school's and his soul and includes his falling in love with the president of his parents' association, trips to Amsterdam, Scotland, and plentiful Rembrandt lore." The book can be found online at https://www.amazon.com/Princes-New-York-Robin-Lester/dp/0786755571.

Lisa and her family relocated to Atlanta during the summer.

Larry sent us a recap of his life after Trinity: "After leaving Trinity I worked in the insurance industry for three years. After this I taught high school math at Xavier High School in New York City from 1984-2007. While at Xavier I was the rehearsal and orchestral pianist for around twenty musical productions. Since retiring I have been a volunteer math tutor at Stuyvesant High School."

During 2008-2009, Lindsay Lauder was hired as Trinity’s Artist-in-Residence. In celebration of our 300th anniversary, Lindsay created the large mosaic at the end of the long hall, which includes creative input by our students. Additional mosaics can also be seen as you ascend the stairs in the Lower School, and also above the Upper School bulletin board. With her education and experience in art therapy and education, she uses her therapeutic and artistic skills with both children and adults to help them gain insight, increase self-esteem and to become more resilient, productive, and valued community members. If you’re looking for something different to do on New Year’s Day, go to Brighton Beach where Lindsay and her clan from the Polar Bear Club take a dip in the ocean.

Nicole is the new administrative assistant in the Registrar’s Office. She earned her BA from The College of William & Mary, and previously worked at HarperCollins Children’s Books where she was a publicist for four years. She is currently working on a master’s degree in creative writing at The New School.

Jeremy is the new Performing Arts technology assistant. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BS in radio, television, and film. He previously worked as a resident teacher and curriculum developer in three separate middle and high school environments leading summer school workshops and performances in improvised theatre. He is the executive producer of the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas. He has also worked freelance in theatre electrics in Chicago. In addition to his position at Trinity, he works as overhaul crew for The Public Theater in New York, where he is constantly on call for any special assignments at the theatre.