1960 Stan Heuisler writes, “All hail Richard Evans for organizing the regular lunches for the class of 1960! We are well. Son Alec will get married on the beach in Rehoboth in June. Daughter Kate lives with her American husband in Uganda where he directs Six Country Public Health Project and she flies all over the world doing Development Administration consultancies.” “In April 2012, I self-published my first novel ‘Sendero,’ which is partly based on my experience as a young US Peace Corps volunteer in Peru more than 40 years ago,” reports John Rouse. “The book is available on amazon.com. The reviews so far have been positive. If interested, you'll find it by tying in ‘Sendero + Rouse.’” Edgie Russell has retired, and he is spending time on volunteer charitable boards: Good Samaritan Hospital, Keswick Multicare Center, Robert Packard Center for ALS research at Johns Hopkins Medicine. “I have four grandchildren and visit them regularly. Three are in Florid, and I spend several weeks in Del Ray Beach, Fla., each winter. I also enjoy our class lunches organized by Richard Evans. Ted Knowles reports, “David has two little girls (four and one) and we enjoy being grandparents and seeing them grow up. Tommy ’96, is a curator of Jelly Fish at Monterrey Bay Aquarium in California. Sam ’90, is a lawyer in D.C. They are all married to women who love them dearly. Gretchen and I are happy in retirement. It’s great to have time to pursue our interests.” “My wife, historian Lil Fell, has accepted a new chair in early western history at the University of Colorado, so we moved to the Boulder area in May,” writes Pete Wood. It was hard to leave our house in Hillsborough, N.C., but we look forward to the adventure of settling in Longmont, Colo.
cancer in November, she died on January 4. By anyone’s definition, Anne was special, loved by all who knew her, and one of those rare people whose lives were defined by helping others and making the world better. At this point, one wonders if other classmates have lost loved ones; if so, it hasn’t been reported. Instead, nearly all that came in is most pleasing. Here are some bits and pieces: Bill Oster visited Gene Austen and secured a picture of Gene posing with a son who looks just like him. We also have a recent photo of Craig Cutter, posed in a tropical setting with his wife Suzanne along with progeny including a son, two daughters and three grandchildren. Craig looked young, trim and happy, as did Paul Dowling in a photo transmitted from Sarasota, Fla., where he mostly lives these days. Paul has made a very successful lifetime career trading in Elvis Presley memorabilia as the owner of Worldwide Elvis. The latest on Claudius Klimt is just as interesting. After constructing two kit airplanes, Claudius is now the U.S. representative of the ArrowCopter. “There is the possibility,” he writes, “of bringing key people together to create a jump takeoff gyroplane that I believe is the future of aviation — i.e., point-to-point transportation without the expense, risk and complexity of helicopters.” Bill Lamb reports that he and Jenny “sold our Vermont house, disposed of most of our possessions and disconnected our phones. We then took off to visit parts of the world we’d never seen. For seven months, we’ve been living with what we can carry — basically a few (clothes) and computer-related paraphernalia.” Ted Leach, Sonny (Tony) Marek and John Loeb have all retired: Ted from Somerset Family Health Care; Tony after 44 years at Cytek Industries; and John after 40 years at Public Health Management Corporation. George Scarlett and Bob Leonard, neither of whom we’ve seen in 50 years, have agreed to put aside professorial responsibilities (George at Tufts, Bob at Texas A&M) to attend the reunion. How pleasing it is to note that as this is written we already have enough classmates committed to assure the largest Class of ’63 Reunion gathering ever.
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The Class of 1963 50th Reunion Committee, namely Bill Paternotte, John Claster, Lance Bendann, Dave Larrabee, Terry Ellen, Bill Oster, Ed Supplee and Yours Truly, has done most of its work preparing for what will be history when this publication reaches you. My role on that committee has been to oversee the compilation of our “Reunion Yearbook,” a 50-years-later kind of “Cynosure.” As I write this column, all 66 pages of the final draft rest in my lap. They bear a lot more news than space herewith permits. Sadly, the news most impacting our regularly-intouch Baltimore contingent was the recent death of Anne Bendann. After a sudden diagnosis of pancreatic
Well, we’re back. After a hiatus of at least a decade, the Class of ’64 will again publish class notes, annually, and in so doing we will update each other, as well as our friends in adjacent classes. I’m sorry we were unable to contact everyone, but we’ve made a good start, and we now have a solid base upon which to build. Not surprisingly the Class of ’64, like many other Gilman classes, is spread far and wide in terms of interests, careers and geography. One career choice has been education and several members have chosen this field. Leith Herrmann has been Lower School head for 18 years and as much as anyone has been responsible for developing our sons into men of character. He and wife
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