CLASS NOTES
My wife, son, and I just moved last summer (which is why I missed submitting our class notes for the previous issue), and Walker and I chatted about that as well in our email exchange. “Moving sucks but you’ll forget about the hassle soon enough,” he told me, adding, “We’ve moved 8 times over the past 20 years almost all in the same neighborhood (we’re addicted to buying clunker house or lot and fixing em up).” He also reports that both sons are doing well in college (at UNC and Auburn) and that he and his wife are now “enjoying the empty nester phase of life.” Our own son just started kindergarten — another milestone for our family — so we’re years away from that. (And keeping that “50” theme going, I don’t want to start thinking where I’ll be when he’s headed off to college himself.)
Preeti Menon, Justin Beck ’89, Vincent Hodge ’89, and Suresh Menon ’89 celebrate the pinning ceremony for Justin at the Frederick Community College Associate Degree Nursing Program.
In other news — catching up on the full year — my writing has been going well. My story “Parallel Play” won two big awards in the mystery world last year, the Agatha and the Macavity, and another story of mine, “A Necessary Ingredient,” was just named a finalist for this year’s Agatha Award too, with the winner there to be named in late April. If anyone wants to read the story, it’s available for free on my website, www.arttaylorwriter. com, thanks to my publisher at Down & Out Books.
Joe Dulaney ’90, Kirk Casey ’90, John Edwards ’90, former EHS Athletic Director Mark Gowin, and David Wafle ’90 at the 2017 EHS vs. WFS Game.
And you can reach out to me through that website too with your own news. Looking for more updates for our fall class notes. Don’t let us down!
Latane Montague, Cree Wright, Douglas Owens, and Mad Man Mortay were in attendance. Latane, Cree, and I have kids that attend The High School now.
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David Haddock (H) 571-286-9486 (W) 301-575-6750 davidhaddock@yahoo.com 35th Reunion: June 2022
Will Burdell (H) 505-259-9068 (O) 912-638-3611 willburdell@ymail.com 30th Reunion: June 8-10, 2018
Croom Lawrence (W) 540-878-6754 croomlawrence@gmail.com 30th Reunion: June 2019
Joe Dulaney (C) 662-519-1480 (O) 662-363-2922 joe@dulaneylawfirm.com 30th Reunion: June 2020
Greetings from Tunica, Mississippi! Ned Durden writes, “I attended the Woodberry Game this year, where we had a mini Class of ’88 reunion. John Allen, Thad Wilson, Chris Avery, William Grasty, 58
It was great to see many of you just a few short years ago at our 25th reunion and others at The Game this past year. Some of you know
that my wife, Kara, and I have been living in my hometown of Tunica where I practice law with my brother, Andy ’85. My daughter, Ameliea ’17, graduated last year and is a freshman at Wake Forest. My youngest daughter, Isabelle ’21, is enjoying her freshman year at Episcopal. I have been fortunate to see some of you on a regular basis over the past couple of years and look forward to seeing more of you in the future. David Maybank, John Edwards, Gibby Semmes, Bobby Berna, and Drew Burris got together this year for a duck hunt in South Carolina. I understand that a great time was had by all and a few tall tales were told. David Maybank is married to his lovely bride, Keri, and they are the parents of one fabulous duck dog, Blue. They live in Charleston and David is the co-founder of
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