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Class Notes T he Class Notes section of Horace Mann Magazine provides news about Horace Mann School alumni. Alums can also stay in touch with classmates and HM friends through the HM Alumni Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Horace-Mann-School-Alumni) and the free mobile app. The app enables alums to connect with HM graduates around the world, by name, Class year, or profession. Search for "EverTrue" in the Apple App store or Google Play store, and then type in Horace Mann. The HM website's News section also carries articles about HM and its alumni (www.horacemann.org/news). Alumni are encouraged to connect at events throughout the year, including Homecoming, class and regional reunions, special events, and at the HM Alumni Council's annual Winter Gathering and the HMAC Benefit on behalf of current students. Horace Mann Magazine is also published online through NXTBook, which enables readers to link directly to the alumni activities mentioned here. We hope you enjoy these updates, and ask you to send your latest news to alumni@Horacemann.org, or to: Alumni and Development Office, Horace Mann School, 231 West 246th Street, Bronx, N.Y. 10471. You can also fax news to (718) 432-3010, or call (718) 432-3453. We look forward to hearing from you. 1929 Dr. Elinor Fosdick Downs, a pediatrician who pioneered the field of public health plans a quiet observance of her 105th birthday on September 19, 2016, noting "After you've had your 100th all the rest are nothing." Downs was featured on a Radio Boston (WBUR.org) program titled "What's the secret to living to 100 Years Old?" http://radioboston.wbur. org/2015/07/20/live-100-years filmed at a party for centenarians in Brookline, MA in July 2015 during which she was recorded reading an excerpt from her memoir about learning to use an iPad, and about finding herself on the Internet via Google. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) 1934 Marsha Hunt was presented with the Awareness Award at the Burbank International 42 Horace Mann Magazine Summer 2016 Film Festival in September 2015 to honor her life in film and social activism. The festival featured a gala closing-night premiere of "Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity," a documentary about the alumna's life as a movie star who appeared in 54 films over 17 years, before her career was sidelined by the infamous Hollywood blacklist of the 1950s. Hunt continued to appear in films and television shows sporadically, but focused her life on a new role as a good-will ambassador for UNICEF and as an advocate for a variety of causes. Producer Roger Memos spent nine years researching and writing the film, and included details and pictures from Hunt's HM days. The film was named Best Feature Documentary at the festival, and Hunt delivered an inspiring speech upon receiving her award. https://www.dropbox.com/ sh/1nh5zyern5ywgqb/AADSROJsQzR8AP_ i3RTLyFdCa?dl=0 The star celebrated her 98th birthday in October 2015, and, since the film's premiere, has been appearing at numerous film showings and addressing audiences flocking to hear from its subject, who represents old school Hollywood glamor, and is one of the last survivors of the blacklist era. Hunt and the film continue to be recognized with additional awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ojai Film Festival's "Sweet Adversity" screening on November 15, 2015. The following day the film was named Best Feature Documentary at the Studio City International Film Festival. Hunt went on to a flourishing career at MGM during the Golden Age of Hollywood. One of Hollywood's first celebrity activists, at age 98, Marsha is still fighting for causes she believes in. Learn more at: https://www.facebook.com/ marshahuntdoc, www.hollywoodandart.com/ zeldacandance.html 1937 Walter Lipman wrote: "Still alive and kicking." 1938 Robert J. (Bob) Kaufman celebrated his 95th birthday in January 2016. The alumnus, who was HM General Association president, Class of 1938 vice president three times, Associate Editor of The Record and the Manninkin and also played J.V. baseball and Varsity soccer, went on to Columbia University, where he was coxswain on the Columbia crew team. Upon graduating from Columbia in 1942 he enlisted in the Navy, becoming a lieutenant. After WWII he went to Yale Law School and then entered the world of television in its nascent days, beginning a lifelong career as an attorney in the medium, eventually at ABC, where he spent the bulk of his career. Bob still keeps fit playing golf. 1940 Dr. Martin Beller turned 92 on April 30, 2016. Dr. Beller recently wrote that June 2016 marked "76 years since my class of 1940 left Horace Mann School. The six years I spent http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRxqFQoTCK2wn43e9MgCFYPzHgodPZoDRQ&url=http://thehollywoodtimes.net/2015/09/15/michael-pare-wins-best-actor-award-at-the-seventh-burbank-international-film-festival/&psig=AFQjCNGC8Nafo3ipOUFxOHhpquFUd7e7-g&ust=1446656637572036 https://www.facebook.com/Horace-Mann-School-Alumni-53590089299/ http://www.horacemann.org/news https://www.facebook.com/marshahuntdoc https://www.facebook.com/marshahuntdoc http://www.hollywoodandart.com/zeldacandance.html http://www.hollywoodandart.com/zeldacandance.html http://www.WBUR.org http://radioboston.wbur.org/2015/07/20/live-100-years http://radioboston.wbur.org/2015/07/20/live-100-years https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1nh5zyern5ywgqb/AADSROJsQzR8AP_i3RTLyFdCa?dl=0Marsha https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1nh5zyern5ywgqb/AADSROJsQzR8AP_i3RTLyFdCa?dl=0Marsha https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1nh5zyern5ywgqb/AADSROJsQzR8AP_i3RTLyFdCa?dl=0Marsha

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