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CLASS NOTES 1967 Harry, also recently retired as a newspaper editor for the New York Times Co. Their son, Hank, is an artist and owns a bar/restaurant in Newport, Rhode Island, and their daughter, Kate, is an engineer for a biomedical company in California. Their first grandson, Bode, was born on the day Lucy retired, and their second grandson, Tyler, was born November 1. “Life is good!”
1962 Mark your calendars for your 50th class reunion - October 5-6, 2012. Contact your class party coordinator, Stephanie Rice Ellis, at kauaistephanie@aol.com for more information and to volunteer to help plan the reunion festivities! Frank Brooks ’62 and Nina Wardrop Brooks ’62 proudly and thankfully announce the birth of their first granddaughter, Vivien Norina Giancamilli, born to Georgiana Brooks Giancamilli and Andrew Giancamilli on February 10, 2011, and the safe return of their son, Capt. Daniel Leet Brooks, USMC, from Afghanistan and his third tour overseas. The Brooks’ are looking forward to their big reunion in October 2012 and hoping the whole class will attend!
This Thanksgiving, Elizabeth Fleming Frost ’62 met Carol Ranson O’Keefe ’62 in Agora Hills, California. Elizabeth writes, “We attended her second granddaughter’s first birthday party. Great to get filled in on her upcoming church medical trip to Uganda and reconnect with her grown children, Peter and Elizabeth.” Peter Erskine ’62 and Stephanie Rice Ellis ’62 got together for lunch in Prescott , Arizona, in November. “We both look forward to returning to Sewickley for our 50th reunion next October!”
1966 Nancy Bennett Haynes ’66 is especially proud of her daughter Inslee’s success as a designer. Washingtonian Bride & Groom magazine chose her as Editor’s Pick for bridal portrait commissions, and she has done the artwork for a new Jacques Levine slipper design called the Inslee. Check it out at www.inslee.net. Fred Everett ’66 recently launched a new Internet company that buys and sells special vehicles for people and companies. He is hoping that this venture will help filmmakers acquire period vehicles for film and TV productions.
Nina Wardrop Brooks ’62, Capt. Daniel Leet Brooks, USMC, Vivien Norina Giancamilli, Georgiana Brooks Giancamilli, Andrew Giancamilli, and Frank Brooks ’62.
Mark your calendars for your 45th class reunion - October 5-6, 2012! Contact your class party coordinator and host, Dingy Hays, at cmhays@comcast.net for more information about the festivities and to help plan the class party!
1968 In October, Alice Marks Tiernan ‘68 completed an epic 2,400-mile bicycle trip in memory of her sister, Molly Marks Sparks ’56, who lost her battle with pancreatic cancer last year. Alice’s solo, self-supported journey took her from the Canadian border north of Seattle, Washington, along the Sierra Cascades bike route down the spine of Washington, Oregon, and California, finishing up her ride in Surprise, Arizona. Alice used this trip as a means to raise awareness and funds for cancer. You can read her blog and relive all her adventures at http://cycleak.com/bike-shop/newsarchive/alice-tiernan/.
1969 Sandy Wick Ruggiero ’69 writes, “It has been a year of intense life events for my family. My father died on Good Friday followed by my mother three months later. Both were 95, so in addition to my three sisters and me, their
Peter Erskine ’62 and Stephanie Rice Ellis ’62 meet up in Prescott, Arizona.
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Nancy Bennett Haynes ’66 is proud of her daughter, Inslee, who has done the artwork for a new Jacques Levine slipper.