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Old friends, Noel Hynd ’66, Adam Shaw ’67, and Patricia White Hynd ’88 enjoyed catching up in California.
’65 C Peter Schaeffer writes, “Please assure all my friends at Choate that I am in fine form and still feel withdrawal seven years after leaving Board of Trustees (1990-2009).” ’66 C
David Holmes writes, “Back in May at our 50th Reunion, I had an interesting thought while our Reunion photo was being taken on the Hill House steps. I was watching the current Choate students (2016, 2017, etc.) walking by. Taking a helicopter view of life, as I am wont to do, I imagined back to 1966 when we were walking by a similar 50th Reunion photo. When I realized that we were looking at the Class of 1916, I was struck by the scope our lives have had over 100 years of knowledge and experience. 1916! The U.S. hadn’t entered WWI and there was no Federal Income Tax. It was pre-prohibition and women couldn’t vote. We have been truly blessed with a full and rich lifetime. I am certain that few, if any of us, still reside in the home our parents had while we were attending Choate. But the Hill House steps were a constant over all those years.”
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Dick Terry writes, “Taking ballet & sculpture lessons. Have found out how to reverse the aging process. Be well!”
’68 C Jack Crews writes, “Meg and I are spending most of our time in Sea Island, Ga., where I am President of the Property Owners Association, though we always enjoy getting back to Richmond. Actually, I am not sure in which of the two cities Meg spends most of her time, as she is constantly traveling to bridge tournaments around the Southeast. Our daughter, Margaret, lives in Atlanta with her husband, Sam, and their two children. Sam runs the Georgia operation for LYFT. Our son, John, lives in Arlington, Va., with his wife Jean. Thankfully, he keeps his job on the Hill as a result of Senator Toomey winning a very close race.”
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Alfred Watts ’87 (left) was honored by the New Haven Chapter of Links, Inc., for his work with youth through Path of Success, the leadership organization he founded. Pictured here with Tom Ficklin ’67.
1970s ’70 C Jim Berrien writes, “Mary Jane and I married our daughter Reid in Aspen on September 24, 2016. Worthy Johnson and his whole family joined us. Daughter #2, Lacey, works for a PR firm in Boston. We also see Charlie Miner on the golf course. My company, Ahl, Berrien & Partners, is doing lots of executive recruiting work in higher education, nonprofit, and media. My partner Darcy Chappel is Choate 1980. Life is good. I use Tom Yankus’ red letter words all the time.” ’72 C John J. Beardsworth, Jr. was featured in the Richmond-Times Dispatch last October. He is a partner at Hunton & Williams LLP, head of the business practice; and chairman of the American Bar Association’s Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section. He told the Times-Dispatch, “My best business decision was to take the Hunton energy practice international, with a focus on emerging markets and Africa in particular. Beginning in the early 1990s, we were probably the first U.S. law firm to represent African governments on billion-dollar energy projects, and that first mover status has continued to benefit us.” Real estate and historic preservation are hobbies of John’s. Fred Clowney is living a quiet life in Grand Rapids, Mich., running a small manufacturing business (intermetsystems.com). He writes, “Children are employed, health is good and still trying to achieve equilibrium.” Byron Haskins writes, “In addition to retiring from government service this year, I have reinstated my license to practice psychology in Michigan. Also, I have had three of my poems published in journals recently. Last year I had “Senseless Love” published in the Cedar Gallery, of the Netherlands (www.cedargallery.nl). This year, “The Goodness of Winter” will appear in Issue 10 of Three Drops Press / Three Drops from a Cauldron,
John J. Beardsworth, Jr. ’72 is a partner at Hunton & Williams LLP, Richmond, Va., and head of the business practice. He is also chairman of the American Bar Association’s Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section.
England, www.threedropspoetry.co.uk and in the USA, “Charity Knows” will appear in Issue 9 - Pop Culture of The Yellow Chair Review (www.yellowchairreview.com), both in December 2016.” Greg Knauer writes, “As a Green Party candidate from Chino Valley, Arizona, I did not win a seat in the State House. These days my name is Haryaksha Gregor Knauer, the spiritual epithet bestowed on me by Alo Devi of the Sri Chinmoy Centre. On YouTube, I’ve started a series of 11-second diaristic episodes. While I was at Choate Rosemary, facts of the day were My Lai and the SST.” Steve Monroe joined John Gelb and Steve Bogardus at a rooftop cocktail party in NYC in October; a good time was had by all. He writes, “See you at the 45th Reunion in May.”
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Edwin Barton, Professor of English and Department Chair, at Bakersfield College in Calif., plans to retire in May after more than 35 years at his current institution, Vanderbilt University, and California State University. He and his wife, Glenda, and their daughter Caroline will be moving full time to their summer home in Cambria, California, where Ed looks forward to reading, writing, drinking wine, and walking his dog, Jenny, on the beach. Many thanks to those who enabled him to watch (via live streaming) Choate’s football team defeat Deerfield to complete yet another undefeated regular season. John T. Kirby has been awarded a senior fellowship for the 2016–2017 academic year in the University of Miami’s Center for the Humanities. He is devoting this fellowship period to an extensive study of what he calls ”comparative classics” – ideas of classics and the classical, across several ancient cultures – and looking for the connections as well as the disconnects among these cultures. The data to be examined include texts, cultural practices, and material culture from the ancient Mediterranean world, ancient Indic cultures, and ancient China.
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