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Sally Thompson Steele writes, “My husband, Richard, and I have lived in Harvard, Mass., for 35 years. I closed my business, Thompson Steele, a few years ago after a wonderful 25-year successful run as an outsourcing full-service (project management, design, editing, layout, etc.) company for the textbook publishing world, but India and other offshore countries took over the work. I found my new calling in the Elder Care services world. After much training in outreach and home visits, I started a great program for “socially isolated seniors” – keeping seniors happier and healthier than they are/were sitting in front of the TV.” Christie Thompson Sumner writes, “Thanks to encouragement from Susan Hennington Jordan and her husband at a recent mini reunion, I bit a large bullet and built a new house on my property in Lincoln, Vt. (I gave away my 125-year old farmhouse, and it was moved a mile up the road!) I don’t necessarily recommend building a house at our age, but now that I am in residence, I am so happy and know it was the right thing to do. The mini reunions have been wonderful for catching up and enjoying friends on their turf." Sunie Stanton Szczepanski writes, “I just got back from Boulder, Colo., where I met my newest grandchild, Bodhi Joshua Szczepanski, born to my son, Joshua, and wife Lisa. My daughter, Amy, and her daughter, Ava Grace (10) still live in Raleigh with Amy’s dad. Adam and I divorced two years ago. I have a comfortable two-bedroom apartment in Raleigh.” Jane Heroy Winn writes, “Tom and I have been married 47 years – must mean we are OLD! We live on Singer Island, Fla., and are retired, Tom from construction management and I from nursing. We have two daughters and a son, all married, and six wonderful grandsons. We stay active on a 30-acre property we have in Okeechobee, Fla., where we spend two days every week gardening and keeping up with the place. I play team tennis and have made lifelong friends who share my passion for tennis.” Jamie Rosenthal Wolf writes, “Our daughter Kate, a writer and editor, married Zachary Harris on the afternoon of June 28, in a storybook kind of wedding, in a walnut orchard surrounded by bales of hay in Ojai, Calif. In the last several years I’ve segued from print journalism into executive-producing documentaries, concentrating on projects that don’t preach but whose messages instead float up from them subliminally. A number of the films have received awards. We are on our fourth springer spaniel, this one a black and white charmer named Ruby.”
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and husband Dave with their blended family 2 Ann Sears ’65 hosted a mini 50th Reunion at her home in Maine this summer. From left, Sally Hudson, former teacher Joanne Sullivan, Julie Newhall, Jancie Reynolds, school archivist Judy Donald ’66, and Ann
1966 gathered at Jamie Kirkpatrick’s wedding in Chestertown, Md. From left, Ed Miller, Chris Havemeyer, Chris Born, and Jamie Kirkpatrick 4 Cornelia de Schepper ‘66, left, attended the November 2015 wedding of classmate Leigh Johnson Yarbrough’s youngest son, Andrew, in Durham, N.C.
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’65 RH Wesley Cullen Davidson and New York City psychiatrist Jonathan L. Tobkes, M.D. have written a book entitled When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need to Know. It will be published in June by Sterling, New York. The foreword is written by Choate alumnus Cason Crane ’11, founder of The Rainbow Summit Project.
Ann Sears writes, “A Mini Maine 50th Reunion at my home. Sally Hudson, Joanne Sullivan (former teacher), Julie Newhall, Jancie Reynolds, and Judy Donald (RH ’66 and school archivist). There was a lobster lunch, lots of laughs and good conversation. All agreed the 50th was a great success in Wallingford and Greenwich. Julie stayed on for a few days and we enjoyed the boat.”
’66 C David Holmes writes, “Peter Hovey, Chris Born, Tod Hunt, Bill Todd, Scott Donahue and many, many more of us have been working hard for our Grand Crescendo 50th Reunion coming up. May 13-15, 2016. We already have more than 60 "yesses", more than a dozen "want/hope to’s" and only 7 no’s. We are still trying to get responses from the rest. Mauricio Lopez is coming from Colombia; Jim Clark from Oregon; Peter Morris, Jamie Griffith and Tim Garson from Texas (still waiting to hear from Russ Kridel). We also have received 35 "Bios" for our "Re-Brief"- what each of us has done since ’66. If you haven’t sent yours in yet, there is still time. Please send it in digital format (with photos) to: alumnirelations@choate.edu. We will have a Wine Tasting, some seminars, a Chapel remembrance and of course the gala dinner Saturday night. As someone said, "It’s as though Cape Canaveral launched about 150 rockets to 150 different planets. Now we get to see and hear what happened!" If you have any questions, please contact Peter Hovey pthovey@gmail.com or myself, sharbot11@yahoo.com. We will be happy to help in any way including numbers and emails of friends with whom you may wish to connect. Can’t wait to see everyone.” ’66 RH Cornelia de Schepper writes, “I attended the wedding of Leigh Johnson Yarbrough’s youngest son, Andrew, in Durham, N.C. It was a wonderful occasion, and I enjoyed visiting not only with Leigh but also her sister, Tina Johnson Lewis ’64, another RH alumna who recently moved from Boulder, Colo., to Newport, R.I. Leigh and I have visited Tina in Newport where she lives in a historic colonial house in the area called The Point.” Leigh Yarbrough writes, “I continue to stay busy in Durham, with my children and their children living so close by. Oldest son Edwin and his two children live walking distance to my house. He manages an office for Cresa, located in downtown Durham. Daughter Christina lives in Raleigh, and stays on the go between her job at Duke Energy, and keeping up with her two young sons! Youngest son Andrew also lives walking distance to my house, and works for Square 1 Bank, located in downtown Durham. Andrew was married in Durham on Nov. 14, 2015, to Jane Royall, who is from Smithfield, N.C. Tina Johnson Lewis ’64, and Cornelia deSchepper also attended! I look forward to attending the upcoming 50th Reunion in May, and hope for a good class turnout for this special event.”