CLASS NOTES
st. george’s school
on the current SG email list for the Class of ’74 will read this and get back to me. I can be reached at mhwnpt@gmail.com. Until next time, or next Bulletin, yours truly, Mike Walsh.
1975
Please contact Bill Douglas at 1-888-I-CALL-SG or ClassNotes@ stgeorges.edu if you would like to volunteer to serve as class correspondent
1976
Clifford L. Dent, P.O. Box 10796, Phoenix, AZ 85064-0796, 602-943-8391, dentcliff@ gmail.com
1977
A. Peter Barbaresi, 4 Hillsborough, Newport Beach, CA 92660, 949-723-1983, peter. barbaresi@gmail.com ■ Big news from Newport: Elena Thornton Kissel was remarried on Aug. 16 to Richard Beverly Corbin III. Sandra Thornton Whitehouse, Belinda Buck Kielland and Nancy Parker Wilson were in attendance. Elena is working for the Green Schools Alliance and dividing her time between Newport, R.I. and New York City. Her three daughters are thriving: eldest Siena is a marketing director in NYC, Lucy works for the Manhattan district attorney and is getting ready to apply to law school, and Rosie is a sophomore at Brown (mom’s alma mater.) ■ Our forever-young student Janet Thomas has graduated from Old Dominion University as a finance major with a minor in actuarial math. And equally impressive, Janet will be running two (yes, two) half marathons in November on consecutive weekends.
1977 classmates Nancy Parker Wilson, Sandra Whitehouse, Belinda Kielland and Elena Kissel attend the Newport Antiques Show held at St. George's last summer.
Meanwhile, Grandma Thomas now has five grandchildren. No slowing down for this young lady. ■ Donald Van de Mark continues to reside in Sonoma County, Calif., and has undertaken the project of remodeling a small Victorian house in San Francisco, smartly taking full advantage of the local tech boom and soaring real estate market. He is also planning a trip to South and East Africa this winter. ■ Chris Lirakis is now working with the quantum-computing group at IBM Watson Research Center. He is also supporting Rian Smith’s ’76 School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA). ■ And finally our man in the greater EU, Ben Edwards continues to raise and invest money in emerging companies in primarily Eastern and Western Europe. He’s now extending his empire to include Sub-Saharan Africa with a Nairobi office. Ben’s base of operation is London with the main office in Vienna. Eldest son Ben Jr. is in due diligence to buy a restaurant in Vienna, and youngest son Nicholas is now a college grad and plying his newly minted graphic design skills in Brighton on England’s southern coast. ■ And for me, given the relative brevity of this submission, I’ll take the liberty to share some news: I went through the sale of our company (Velocity Sports Performance) to STACK Media this past June. STACK is a large sports digital media content publisher. Check us out on the web at STACK.com and just see what this is all about. The deal was the culmination of nearly six years of managing the company to this time and place. Very satisfying to get the deal done, but now the next level of work is underway! Endless, endless, endless fun. Best regards to the rest of the crew out there.
SPRING 2015
John Bermingham ’75 and wife, Marnie, visited their son, Jack Bermingham ’16, during Parents Weekend at the High Mountain Institute in Leadville, Colo., where Jack studied during the fall semester.
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Kristi were leaving Chicago and moving to Charleston, S.C. David’s last email title to the class: “Red Sox Nation-How Did The Cubs Do In The Last Series In Beantown?)” ■ After St. George’s, Robbie Wilson went to Princeton where he majored in economics and rowed on the varsity lightweight crew. ■ Other SG grads at the time included Elliot Swan, Danny Slack ’73, Rob Dickey ’73, Sally Blodget ’75 and Steve Douglas ’75. After Princeton, Robbie went to law school at UVA in Charlottesville and then practiced law in New York City for 28 years before moving his practice closer to home. He has been married to his wife, Sheila, also a lawyer, for 21 years and they have a son, Renwick, who is a freshman at Oberlin College in Ohio. He notes: “If anyone is passing through Greenwich, Conn., feel free to get in touch. Best Robbie.” ■ I want to finish this report with a sad notification. The class of ’74 received a letter from the Alumni Office last June that they had gotten word that fellow ’74 graduate and local day student, Tom Loughlin, had passed away at the age of 54 in Florida, about four years ago. I asked the school if anyone knew how or why or where but they said they had very little information on the subject. Some of the class got back to me remembering Tom’s basketball achievements and I remember him being on the track team. David Wanders: “I played hoops with Tom. I hope St. Peter had a big towel for him.” Alec Walsh: “His dad used to watch our football practices sitting in his car near the field. Tom’s athletics meant a lot to him, as did getting an SG education.” Caleb Mason: “I also remember Tom’s dad at games and he was very proud of his son, who was a sweet soul.” Minot Frye: “I edged Tom out in the school-eating contest. He wasn’t pleased and challenged me to a cardboard-eating event. I passed. Always bought my summer bait from his dad’s place on Wellington.” Paul Barclay de Tolly: “Tom was a big man with a big heart.” When I hear that one of my peers has passed, it only encourages me to live life to the fullest and concentrate on getting the important stuff done.” ■ Well, this report ended up being an earful. I didn’t think I had a whole lot of material to work with when I started this installment, but … ■ Maybe someone from the class who is not
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