CLASSNOTES C o m p i l e d b y L i bb y E d w a r d s
From the ARchives Know any of the young athletes in this photo, taken on the Ridgeview Campus at the then-Brunswick Lower School? If you have any information, please call or email Libby Edwards (ledwards@brunswickschool.org; 203-625-5864.)
1955 Bill Putman runs a bed and breakfast on Cape Cod, The Simmons Homestead Inn in Hyannis Port, Mass., but reports that with tourism and the economy being
A Photographic Memory We were pleased to receive a number of
a bit slow, so is business.
responses to our inquiry about the archival
Ralph Risley reports that, after having moved to
2014 issue of Times of Brunswick. Thanks to all
Tucson from the Bay Area in 2004, his family is still in the process of redoing their second house. “We spend about 4–5 months on the road, half in California and the remainder elsewhere in the Western U.S.,” he wrote. “I will never retire in the traditional sense. I am
photo published on page 58 of the Fall/Winter who helped identify members of the Kodiaks, the Brunswick barbershop quartet, taken at a 1964 Dramatics production of an Evening
Warren Chane ’64, Peter Apisdorf ’64, Bill
Under the Gaslight. The singers in bowler hats
Oler ’65, George Swope ’65, Bill Kies ’66,
and bowties are, left to right:
Robert Appleyard ’65, and Larry Russell ’67.
B
always looking for value-added startups that can be leveraged. I am currently focusing on a U.S./Mexico border transportation hub that integrates cross-
ers-and-acquisition practice in Palo Alto, specializing
tical industry, he left the private sector and joined
border transport and regional economic development.
in the software aspects of digital and Internet media.”
the U.S. Department of State as a career diplomat.
My wife, Sara, is deep into miniatures as a collector,
His career was limited by mandatory retirement at
tastes. Our three sons live in Northern California. Two
1964
sons and a daughter-in-law are all lieutenants with the
George Chane reports that, after a long career as an
“After settling down in Chatham, Mass., I was called
Sacramento Police Dept. Our oldest son has a merg-
international financial executive in the pharmaceu-
out of retirement for a short-term assignment as the
artisan and seller of what no longer meets her current
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age 65, and he served at Embassy London, Consulate General Hermosilla (Mexico), and Washington, D.C.