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Charlotte Tamblyn Tufts ’29 Librarian and Booklover Charlotte Tamblyn Tufts ’29, passed away peacefully, after a brief illness, on November 1, 2010, in Medford, Oregon at the age of 98. The Horace Mann High School for Girls alumna grew up in New York enjoying all the City had to offer. She attended Sweet Briar College in Virginia, graduating in 1933. She married Nathan A. Tufts, Jr., and the couple moved to Burbank, Calif. Charlotte returned to graduate school, earned her masters degree in library science in 1963, and worked at the Burbank Public Library developing its Western History Room. She then became librarian at the research library of The Southwest Museum in Highland Park, Calif., and ended her career at age 80 as assistant to a rare-manuscript dealer. Throughout her life Charlotte was a voracious reader and passionate book collector, and a golfer, seamstress, knitter, needle pointer, gardener, and devoted mother to her three sons and daughter, grandmother to her four grandchildren, and greatgrandmother to nine. John Drummond Reeves ’32 Former Horace Mann School Teacher, Professor, and Author John Drummond Reeves ’32 passed away October 24, 2010, at the age of 95, one month after Mary, his beloved wife of 65 years. He attended Columbia University and Williams College, and returned to Horace Mann to teach English. His teaching was interrupted when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy as WWII threatened. Commissioned as an ensign he served four-and-a-half years in the Atlantic and Pacific. On one memorable day aboard the USS Strauss he dove into the China Sea to retrieve pages of a code book that had been torn by the wind from a shipmate’s grip. He retired as a lieutenant in 1946, and returned to academics, teaching English at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., at Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., and Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., retiring in 1973. Prof. Reeves published Windows on Melville in 2001 and wrote many articles for academic presses, particularly on William Shakespeare and the Trojan War. He belonged to the American Association of University Professors, the College English Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Walla Walla Archaeological Association, and was a Freemason. Photo by Jack Manning, © The New York Times H Memorials memorials Robert Tishman ’33 Real Estate Developer Robert V. Tishman ’33, a real estate developer whose companies etched their mark on the skylines of cities around the nation, died October 11, 2010 at age 94. Tishman was founding chairman of Tishman Speyer Properties, a company he started in 1978 with his Robert Tishman in his office in the son-in-law at the time, Jerry Tishman Building in 1971 Speyer ’58. It was an outgrowth of Tishman Realty and Construction, the company created by Tishman’s grandfather Julius, who in 1898 took the profits from a department store in Newburgh, N.Y., and built a six-story tenement on the Lower East Side, Dennis Hevesi wrote in an obituary in The New York Times. Tishman went on from Horace Mann School to Cornell, graduating in 1937. He served in the Navy on a destroyer in the Pacific during WWII, then returned to the family company. As president and chief executive of Tishman Realty and Construction (originally Julius Tishman & Sons) in the 1960s and 70s, Tishman ran what became one of the largest owners and builders of office buildings in the country. Working with his cousin John, who was in charge of the construction division, Tishman negotiated contracts with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for the construction of the World Trade Center, which he oversaw. The company had previously built the 39-story Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue and residential buildings on Park Avenue, and managed the construction of Madison Square Garden. Under Tishman’s leadership, Tishman Realty and Construction expanded its operations throughout the country, building the 100-story John Hancock Tower in Chicago, Alcoa’s twin-tower Century City Complex in Los Angeles and the Renaissance Center in Detroit, among other projects. In San Francisco, the company built one of the first condominiums on Nob Hill. In 1968 Tishman told Business Week that his company had become “an inter-company conglomerate” doing for others what for decades it had done for its own properties. “We package everything. We locate land, design the building, select the architect, work our interim and permanent financing, do the leasing, build and manage the building.” The company, which went public in 1928, was successfully liquidated in 1977. A year later Tishman started Tishman Speyer Properties, which would become one of the largest real estate companies in the world. With Speyer as president, it developed the Equitable Center in New York, the NBC Tower in Chicago, the SONY Center in Berlin, the MesseTurm in Frankfurt (one of continental Europe’s tallest buildings) and the Torre Norte in São Paulo, Brazil, the Horace Mann Magazine Spring 2011 orace Mann School mourns the deaths of the following members of our community. We invite readers to share their memories and reflections with one another in these pages by writing to alumni@horacemann.org. 57

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Horace Mann - Spring/Summer 2011

Horace Mann - Spring/summer 2011
Contents
Letters
Greetings From Dr. Tom Kelly, Horace Mann School Head of School
Greetings From Melissa Parento ’90, Horace Mann School Director of Development
Education in a Global Era
News of the School
Alumni Council Corner
Horace Mann School Alumni Events Connect HM Alumni as Never Before
Food for Thought: A Traveler’s Guide to Tasting the Fare of Horace Mann School Alumni
Bookshelf
Class Notes
Memorials
Philanthropy and You

Horace Mann - Spring/Summer 2011