CLASS NOTES
67 st. george’s school
// SPRING 2015
Top to bottom: Tripp West ’92 (third from left) is joined in Bermuda by Andrew Heaney, Cory Smith Plumb ’92, Randall Flinn Stiglitz ’92, Norris Daniels, Charlie Daniels ’92 and Leslie Bathgate Heaney ’92. / Drayton Virkler ’92 enjoys a night out with his sons Sumner and Henry in their new home city of Singapore.
Top to bottom: Sara Ely Hulse ’92 shows off the Emmy Award she and her “48 Hours” team won for “Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story” for their coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. / Twins Kathryn Ely Hulse and Avery Burns Hulse, the daughters of Alex and Sara Ely Hulse ’92, show off their SG pride. / Lukas Kolff ’92 gets some down time with his son Charlie, his wife, Jo, and daughter Rose.
area as well as acquaintances of SGS, parents past and present, and incoming students as well. She says, overall, it was a beautiful and fun night in July. Other than that, Tobin says it was a busy summer—just non-stop! ■ Speaking of alumni get-togethers. Will Forbes found out at his Great Uncle Frank’s 95th birthday party that Francis Coxe Forbes ’37 is the last remaining member of the Class of 1937! Very impressive! And what an amazing legacy in the Forbes family along with Will’s older brother, Dave Forbes ’90, and maybe there will be some more Dragons in the not-to-distant future in the Forbes clan with Will’s daughter, Sarah, and son, Tyler! ■ Back to the Hilltop … Sue Maroney Swain is still living in Newport with her family. She says that she has been enjoying working as a psychiatric nurse at Newport Hospital and that it certainly
Top to bottom: Randall Flinn Stiglitz ’92 took this photo of classmates Alice Fiddian-Green, Candace Gottschalk, Leslie Bathgate Heaney, Cameron Goodyear and Julie O’Donnell during her 40th birthday celebration in Newport. / Sue Maroney Swain ’92 gets down and dirty during her third Spartan Beast—a 14-15 mile obstacle course race on Mt. Killington in Vermont. / Tobin Dominick ’92 joined fellow SG alumni Heidi von Rosenberg Klapinsky ’92, Whit Hammett ’90, Kate Thomson Ward ’93, Tyson Goodridge ’90 and Sven Holch ’91 at the SG reception at the Manchester (Mass.) Yacht Club.
keeps her on her toes. Her daughter, Ruby, is turning 5 this year and is loving being one of the “big kids” at her preschool (Bloom in Middletown, a wonderful, Waldorf-modeled school). Her husband, David, continues to put his all into his job with the R.I. Air National Guard, which is where he and Sue first met. Sue just completed her third Spartan Beast, which is a 14-15 mile intense, mud-filled obstacle course race on Mt. Killington in Vermont. She says she is still recovering as it takes almost nine hours to complete! Each year she says she swears that she will never do it again, but, of course, she is already contemplating signing up for next year … I say GO FOR IT, SUE! I’m so impressed! ■ From our classmates around the world
… Moy Dimen Drake and her family are now happily situated in their new post in Hawaii. She reports that all her little ones are now finally in the same school— Pre-K, K, and second. ■ Drayton Virkler checked in from his new home in Singapore to say that he and his family have successfully completed their move and are trying to get used to living in a 2,600-square-foot apartment. For friends in NYC, this size apartment may not sound that small, but for a family moving from a farm in North Carolina, it is! Ella, 12, Sumner, 10, and Henry, 7, are all settling in well at their new school, Stanford American International School (SAIS). They are quickly making friends and adjusting to a life of riding school buses (a.k.a., luxury coaches) and uniforms. Drayton says that work is going well. In the seven weeks he has been on the job, he has already been to Korea three times, India, China and Japan once. Through these trips he has discovered that there are no short flights in Asia. In fact, his shortest flight is four hours and his longest thus far is 6 and a half hours, but this is only because he has yet to go to Australia, which is eight hours from Singapore. But, he says, despite the many hours in the air, the job is going well, and he is learning a lot and having fun. ■ And from London … Lukas Kolff announced that he and his wife, Jo, were