CLASS NOTES
nature based options to address the underlying causes of health issues. This continues to be a very fascinating, rewarding field. We have 3 children, 2 of which graduated from EHS. Our oldest, Brendan ’10 graduated from Clemson recently and is now working in Boston in the Biotech industry. Erin, our middle child (who attended high school in Bristol) has just graduated from Elon University with a double major in Spanish and International Relations, and has a Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Argentina most of next year. Our youngest, Sarah ’14 is a rising sophomore at Elon, majoring in Art and Communications. We would love to have classmates visit if they are near Bristol, VA/TN, in their travels.” David also reported that Lee McLaughlin is in the middle of his summer camp season at Camp Maxwelton, just outside Lexington, VA, and is doing well. From North Carolina John Coupland reports: “Kris and I had dinner with Cheshire Rhett ’72 in Charleston. My son, Jack, is actually working with a real estate development company where Cheshire works. We have 3 great grandchildren, 5, 4, and 2 that we spend as much time as we can with. Golf game is taking a hit but handicap going up. Sold latest insurance agency to HUB International in 10/2015. No retirement in sight but a few hats off my head. Life is good.” Edward Rutledge writes: “Our fourth granddaughter, Margo Susan Rutledge, was born on May 22, 2016… no grandsons yet!” With the approach of fall and the Seahawks season beginning I want to comment on how much that I enjoyed Jim Clardy’s ’78 article in the EHS Magazine on the Oakland Raider’s time at EHS. I lived south of Pittsburgh in the 1970’s and the games between the Raiders and Steelers were epic!
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Will Corbitt ’70, Nelson McDaniel, Weyher Dawson ’71, Burke Haywood ’71, and Hubert Haywood ’64 at Tryon Palace in New Bern, NC.
The Class of 1972 met for its summer golf outing in Linville, NC. Eddie Chapman, Bruce Faurot, Billy Bell, Darr Hall, Pinkney Herbert, Bill Swinford, Beau Wilson, Heath Alexander, Bank Hipp, Andy Brown, Scott Linder, Kin Nevitt, Vince Dobbs, and Chuck Patton attended.
Society of the Cincinnati held at Tryon Palace in New Bern, NC.
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Beau Wilson (H) 212-588-0363 (O) 212-603-6185 beauatciti@aol.com 45th Reunion: June 9-10, 2017
Geoff Snodgrass (H) 504-895-4200 geoff@snodgrassplc.com 50th Reunion: June 2021
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I have retired in 2015 from a 38-year career in banking and wealth management with Citibank and Morgan Stanley, respectively, and hopefully will improve my golf handicap in Blowing Rock, NC.
Will Corbitt ’70, Nelson McDaniel (French teacher at EHS for 30 years; now Pres. New Bern Historical Society), Weyher Dawson ’71, Burke Haywood ’71, and Burke’s brother, Hubert Haywood ’64 attended the 2016 spring meeting of the NC
Howell Morrison reports that his daughter, Emily, was married last October to Jenner Wood’s son, Jenner IV, in Charotte. They are both graduates of UNC Chapel Hill. Later in the month, I ran into Howell and Erwin Morrison at the Order of St. John (OStJ)
investiture in Dallas; Erwin ‘made the cut’ and we’re still ‘passing the box’ on Howell. Hopefully, the ‘jury is still out on Howell’s admission’! Pinkney Herbert’s artwork is traveling throughout the Southeast for the next three years. The exhibition, “Distilled: The Narrative Transformed,” is a 30-year survey of his work into abstractionism. I viewed the exhibition last fall at the Ewing Gallery at University of Tennessee, and further exhibitions include Murray State University in Kentucky, The University of Alabama, and the Odgen Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. Billy Bell reports that he continues his practice in Vascular Surgery, and proves that the ‘apple does not fall far from the tree’. His son, William ’03, is doing a 6 year fellowship in Oral and Maxillo Facial Surgery at LSU, and
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