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Memorials
H
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.
Robert E. Simon Jr. '31,
Visionary Creator of Reston, Va.
Robert Edward Simon Jr. '31 passed away on
September 21, 2015 at age 101. Simon was a
visionary who created the town of Reston, Va.
in the early 1960s, as America's first planned
alternative to postwar suburban sprawl.
Graduating from Harvard in 1935, upon the
death that year of his father, real estate
developer Robert Simon Sr., Robert Jr. became president of Simon
Enterprises, a part owner of Carnegie Hall. He served as a Captain in the
Army in Europe during WWII, and in the 1950s developed real estate
around the country. When Carnegie Hall was facing demolition in 1960
Simon sold his 40 percent interest to NYC in a deal that rescued the
concert hall and helped finance his plans to create a town in response to
what cultural critics were calling suburbia's colorless life. Purchasing
some 7,000 acres of woods and fields in Fairfax County, VA. in 1961 Simon
designed an affordable, racially integrated, economically self-sustaining
town of open spaces, houses and apartments, that was also rich in
cultural and educational opportunities. The first village was completed
in 1965, and 400 pioneers, including Simon, moved in. The alumnus was
honored at periodic "founder's day" celebrations, recognized with a
bronze statue in 2004, and commended for his "visionary leadership" in
the Virginia Legislature in 2009. Simon declared the town that regularly
ranks among "Best Places to Live in America" as "pretty close to what"
he "hoped it would be." He is survived by his fourth wife, Cheryl TerioSimon, daughter, Margo Prescott-Morris, step-daughters Lynn
Lilienthal, Dr. Karen Terio, Betsy Schulberg, Deborah Lesser and Cristina
Zilkha; stepsons, Tom Langman and Adam Terio; and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.
Olivia Kahn '37, Editor and Artist
Horace Mann School is saddened by the death
of Olivia Kahn '37 on Dec. 19, 2015. A lifelong
New Yorker, she was: a talented and prolific
artist; a respected manuscript reader who,
with her older sister Joan Kahn '31, helped
establish Harper & Row's preeminence in the
mystery and suspense field; a world traveler
and avid museum and theater goer; and a friend to many prominent
artists, writers and editors in New York and London. After graduating
from HM School for Girls and Bryn Mawr College, the alumna studied at
the Art Students League. For decades thereafter, she worked daily in
the studio space she rented in Lower Manhattan. Ms. Kahn was
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predeceased by siblings, Joan Kahn '31 and E.J. Kahn Jr. '33, the
longtime New Yorker magazine writer. She leaves her three nephews
and their spouses, children, and grandchildren.
Ruth Phillips Arent Anderson '39,
Olympic Medalist and
Renowned Child Psychologist
Ruth Phillips Arent Anderson '39 died on Feb.
14, 2016 in Corvallis, OR. An Olympic medalist,
Arent-Anderson remained close with friends
from HM School for Girls, and traveled to N.Y.
for reunions. A 1943 graduate of Skidmore
College, she earned her master's in psychology
from the University of Iowa and M.S.W. from
the University of Denver, and became a nationally-known child psychologist and psychiatric social worker, author, speaker and educator,
particularly on childhood trauma. Her books include Stress and Your
Child: A Parent's Guide to Symptoms and Strategies (1984), Trust Building
with Children Who Hurt: A One-to-One Support Program for Children
Ages 5 to 14 (1991) and Parenting Children in Unstable Times (1993).
An avid athlete throughout her life, she won two silver medals and a
bronze medal in the 1942 Olympics, known as "the Olympics of no record"
because events were held in each participating country when WWII
intervened on the originally-scheduled Berlin Olympics. Raising four children with her first husband Jacob Arent (died 1971) Ruth Arent-Anderson
became head of Colorado's League of Women Voters, a civil rights activist
and a community organizer. Following the death of her second husband,
Merton Anderson, she moved to Corvallis, where she was on the board
of the Academy for Life Long Learning, and was active in Altrusa, CARE
and The Raging Grannies. Ms. Anderson continued to travel, sketch, and
publish books into her 90s, including a poetry book I Am Older Than Most
of You: Delights and Doubts of a Nonagenarian. She is mourned by her
children, Margaret, Sally, Bonnie and Douglas, and her six grandchildren.
Jack Earl Sonnenblick '40, Real Estate
Developer and Former HM Trustee
Horace Mann School was saddened by the
death of Jack Earl Sonneblick '40 on April 10,
2015 in Boynton Beach, Fla. Sonnenblick
studied building construction at MIT, served in
WW II as a First Lieutenant in the Combat
Engineers under General George Patton, and
was in the Battle of The Bulge. Sonnenblick
started his real estate career in 1946, eventually chairing the board of
Sonnenblick Goldman Company. A former trustee of the New York Bank
for Savings, he was also the original Managing Trustee and Founder of
North American Mortgage Investors, the first publicly held Real Estate
Investments Trust (R.E.I.T.) Founder of Mortgage Growth Investors,
another publicly held R.E.I.T., Sonnenblick also chaired the Mortgage
Committee of the N.Y. Real Estate Board in 1967-68, and in 1971-72 was
President of the National Association of Real Estate Investments Trust.
A former Director of the Brokerage Division of the N.Y. Real Estate
Board, he served on the American Technion Society board, and was a
former member of the HM Board of Trustees. Upon retiring to Florida
Sonnenblick and his wife Dani (Augusta Dann) became legacy members
of the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Sonnenblick was also a member and
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