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Joe Sweeney writes, “I retired in 2013 after a 40-year career as a lawyer, including 25 years as the head lawyer of two public, high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, Applied Materials and MIPS, and moved from the San Francisco Bay area to Southern California. My friend of 15 years, Nancy Handel, and I married in Maui in 2011. My older son, Patrick, graduated from UCLA, and is an actor in Hollywood. My younger son, Kevin, is biochemistry major at UC Santa Cruz. My sister, Denise Hartman, retired as an executive at VISA, and also moved from the San Francisco Bay area to Southern California. If friends are in the area, please visit us in Newport Beach.”
’66 RH Leigh Johnson Yarbrough writes, “The past year has been a busy one, especially now that all three of my children are living close by. Last August my oldest son, Edwin, and his family moved from Charlotte to Chapel Hill. He has just opened a new office for Cresa, which is located in downtown Durham. He has a 3-year-old daughter and a oneyear-old son. My daughter, Christina, lives in Raleigh, where she works for Duke Energy. She has two sons, ages 2½ and 1, both of whom keep her busy! My youngest son, Andrew, lives in Durham, and is working
for Square 1 Bank at their downtown Durham branch. In June I went to visit my sister Lucina (Tina) Lewis ’64, in Newport, Rhode Island. We had a great week exploring the area, and visiting with family. She relocated there from Boulder, Colo., last May, and is enjoying her new surroundings.”
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Lou Barnes writes, “I am celebrating my 25th anniversary as author/publisher of nationally syndicated “Mortgage Credit News” and mortgage banking in Boulder, Colo., where I regularly see Tom Ayres, astrophysicist at CU. We were together in Choate’s last 2nd Form, 14 young men in ’62; eight of us made it all five years!” Rick Rosenthal recently produced/directed a new thriller, Drones, which had its world premiere at the London Film Festival and its U.S. premiere at the Austin Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter (London) says of the film, “A topical thriller about the ethics of remote-control warfare... Both leads give excellent performances, with Matt O’Leary showing potential to follow Ryan Gosling’s path from baby-faced child star to laconic, sardonic, left-field sex symbol...The final scene should prove unsettling for liberals and conservatives alike."
’67 RH Helen Truss Kweskin and her husband, Ed, are the proud grandparents of Sylvia and Simon Averbach. With only 15 months between the children, both parents and grandparents are very busy! Helen continues to teach high school English at the King School in Stamford, Conn., and remains actively engaged with educational work in Rwanda.
’69 RH Helen Halpin writes, “2014 is going to be a big year for me. My son, Derek, and his wife are expecting their first child (my first grandchild) in February and my daughter, Geneva, is engaged to be married this spring. My middle son, Josh, is studying forensic science as a freshman at the University of North Carolina, and my son David is a freshman in high school at Ardingly College in West Sussex, south of London. My husband, Scott, just had both of his knees replaced, and I am thoroughly enjoying retirement in Southern France.” Vicki Spang writes, “Life is good and pretty much the same: I am the head of marketing at a 600+ attorney law firm based in Los Angeles. I also have an apartment in San Francisco, where we have an office. I take advantage of being in LA by attending awards shows (went to the Grammys last year) and snapping photos of celebs, with or without me in the picture, whenever they are amenable.”
top left Vicky Spang ’69 posed with former President Clinton when he spoke at a conference sponsored by her San Francisco firm.
bottom left RH ’69 classmates Elise Hume Papke, Marfy Field Hodgman, Cathy Lee Davis and Connie Ferguson had a reunion in Rhode Island last fall. Lots of reminiscing, laughs, and lobster.
above From left, Phil Snyder ’68 and his brother, Rob ’69, were winners of the Grand Prize at the First Annual Yellow Ape Film Festival in Huntington, L.I., for their film, A Farewell to Arm. They received the award from the festival organizer, Jim Haggerty.