Frederick B. Adams, Jr. '24, a renowned bibliophile and the director of the Morgan Library in Manhattan for more than two decades, died on January 7, 2001, at his home in Chisseaux, France. He was 90.

According to The New York Times, Mr. Adams was a lifelong collector, who amassed two of the largest holdings of works by Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost, as well as one of the leading collections of writing by Karl Marx and left-wing Americana. After St. Bernard's, Mr. Adams was graduated from St. Paul's and Yale University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. In 1932 he attended Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, where, aided by the depreciated pound, he added to his collection. But his pending marriage required Mr. Adams to get a job, and he left Cambridge to join his father's company, Air Reduction Company. Assigned to analyze how New Deal legislation might affect the company, he decided to read up on socialism in the United States, which quickly led to his acquisition of Das Kapital in the original wrapper, two 1948 printings of the Communist Manifesto, and the first Marx pamphlet published in America.

Despite his stint at Air Reduction, Mr. Adams' real passion was collecting, and in addition to the works of Thomas Hardy he had acquired in college, he was collecting books by Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Willa Cather, and E.A. Robinson. In 1948, Mr. Adams succeeded Bella da Costa Greene as director of the Morgan Library, a position he held until 1969. He is widely credited with broadening the library's accessibility. He also furthered the Morgan's scope as both a research library and a museum, expanding its collection to include printed books and bindings, and literary and historical manuscripts as well as the visual arts.

A first cousin once removed of Franklin D. Roosevelt through his mother, Ellen Walters Delano, Mr. Adams also collected the president's speeches and personal arcana, which he catalogued as well. "It was sort of a joke between us that I was his bibliographer," he said.

"I guess collecting is in my blood," Mr. Adams told The New Yorker in 1948. "I'm sure people realize how useful the Morgan Library is. It contains the crowning achievements--what you might call the crests of creativeness--of mankind for several thousand years. Unless we preserve these great feats of humanity in the past, we wouldn't know of mankind's past capabilities--we'd be starting everything from scratch."

Mr. Adams is survived by his wife, Marie-Louise de Croy Adams; four daughters; a sister; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

John Bartol '26, died on January 22, 2001. He was born January 3, 1913, in New York, son of Henry George and Hester Gouverneur Hone Bartol. Mr. Bartol attended St. Bernard's and was graduated from St. Paul's School. He earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1936.

In 1954 Mr. Bartol started American Truck Leasing Co., the largest trucking firm in New England at that time. He also worked for American Airlines and was marketing vice president of Connor Engineering. A Greenwich, Connecticut, resident since 1938, Mr. Bartol was an avid sailor and was former commodore of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club.

Mr. Bartol is survived by his wife, Norma Magnus Bartol of Greenwich; two sons, John Hone Bartol, Jr. of Alexandria, Virginia and Peter Wakefield Bartol of Charlottesville, Virginia; four stepchildren; and four grandchildren.

Alexander P. Droutzkoy '70 died on January 15, 2001. After St. Bernard's he attended school in Switzerland and then Columbia University. His father, the late Prince Alexis Droutzkoy, was the publisher of American Helicopter Magazine. Alexander is survived by his mother, Marie Theriese Droutzkoy and two brothers, Alexis '62 and Nicholas '67.

Doris Merrill Magowan, a former St. Bernard's parent, trustee of the school from 1948 to 1956, and sister of James Ingram Merrill '39, died April 4, 2000, in San Francisco. Daughter of Charles Edward Merrill and Elizabeth Joyce Church in Montclair, New Jersey, Mrs. Magowan was raised in New Jersey and New York. Her father was the founder of Merrill Lynch, the financial consulting firm.

Mrs. Magowan was preceded in death by her husband, who died in 1985, and her brother, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. She is survived by another brother, Charles Edward Merrill, and her five sons. Four of Mrs. Magowan's five sons attended St. Bernard's: Robin '49, Merrill '51, Peter '55, Stephen '57.

Ben Stimler '89 writes about his classmate: Anthony Pollner '89, classmate and friend for six years at St. Bernard's, died tragically in May, 2001 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.

Anthony was just 25 years old. He had been living in England most recently working as a derivatives trader for Taurus Petroleum and had traveled extensively prior to that. He was a graduate of the University of Montana, where he received a B. A. in Journalism and English and had written several articles for the school newspaper, The Kalmian. A talented athlete, Anthony enjoyed golf, skiing and ice hockey and was a youthful outdoorsman and animal lover. Furthermore, he enjoyed photography and traveling abroad and was an accomplished website designer. As a child, he performed ballet at Lincoln Center playing the part of "Fritz" in The Nutcracker in 1984. Whether it was his kind and jovial nature or his infectious laugh, Anthony brought smiles to the faces of those he encountered.

Anthony's spirit was bright, and will surely continue to shine on the lives of those who knew him. The St. Bernard's community would like to express its deepest condolences to the Pollner family.

Mila Pospisil coached at St. Bernard's from 1972 to 1991, died during the summer of 2000.

Milas was a superb athlete in Czechoslovakia. He played on the national hockey and soccer teams and was also a tennis professional. He escaped from Czechoslovakia on skis with his wife, carrying one suitcase each. When they reached the border they were lucky. The guard recognized Milas as an outstanding athlete and asked him where he was headed. Milas replied that he and his wife were off on a skiing holiday. Milas and his wife reached Canada and were taken care of by a commission that was set up for escapees from Czechoslavakia. From Canada he made his way to the United States and eventually St. Bernard's.

He started his professional career here as an assistant tennis professional at The Rockaway Hunt Club. Milas knew the pro, who had also been a player on the Czechoslovak National Hockey team. There were also a number of St. Bernard's and Buckley families with houses in this area of Long Island. The club's youth tennis group ended after Labor Day, and Milas started playing soccer with these children. At the same time St. Bernard's had an opening and a need for a soccer coach. One parent and trustee, James Hellmuth, mentioned Milas to Esty Foster.

Mr. Hellmuth undertook the project of getting Milas legally employed. Congressman Emmanuel Cellers was instrumental in making this process as easy as possible for Milas and the school.

The coaches at St. Bernard's remember Mila as a committed teacher and a fitness guru, spending most of his leisure time playing competitive tennis. He had quite a personality, blending old-world toughness with an understanding that boys will be boys. Many an Old Boy would come back to St. Bernard's and entertain friends and teachers with a score of humorous Mr. Mila anecdotes. He will always be part of the fiber of the school.

Loyal Old Boy and a member of the hockey Hall of Fame, Robert Ridder '32, died on June 24, 2000 at his home in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. After St. Bernard's Mr. Ridder attended Portsmouth Priory and Harvard University. Over the years, Mr. Ridder received many civic and humanitarian awards, but he also loved sports and was very active in the U.S. Olympic hockey program. In 1952 and 1956, he managed the U.S. Olympic team, winning silver medals both times, and also served as secretary for the U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Committee in 1960.

In 1976 Mr. Ridder was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. In 1994 he won the Lester Patrick Award, given for outstanding service to hockey in the United States, and in 1998 was inducted into the International Hockey Hall of Fame.

Mr. Ridder also managed radio stations in Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota, was involved in multiple publications in the Midwest, and was former president of WCCO Radio and Television in Minneapolis.

In addition to his wife Kathleen, he is survived by a daughter, Kathleen Crampton; three sons, Peter, Robert Jr., and Christopher; three sisters, Gretchen Nicholas, Esther Ridder, and Joan Challinor; and four grandchildren.

Philip A. Uzielli '44, died peacefully on August 25, 2001, on his terrace in Florence, Italy. Following St. Bernard's he attended Milton Academy and was graduated from Princeton University. He is survived by his brother Giancarlo Uzielli '49 and nephew Alessandro Uzielli '80. Philip and Alessandro recently acquired Halcyon Days, the English enamel box company.

Andrew West '94 died in April, 2001 of complications due to diabetes.

Frederick S. Wildman, Jr. '44 died last year at the age of 71. Following St. Bernard's, Mr. Wildman attended the Taft School, St. Johns in Annapolis, and studied for one year at Le Rosey in Switzerland. He was the only son of Colonel Wildman, one of the great wine importers. After two years with the army in Germany he joined Frederick Wildman & Sons Ltd. as a salesman in New York in 1953. His writings on wine appeared in numerous issues of Gourmet magazine and he also wrote the guide Wine Tour of France. He later involved himself in real estate developments in and around Malaga, Spain. He spent the last part of his life in Colebrook, Connecticut.

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