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of being a fourth cousin to Temple Grassi (WFS ’65 and father of Helen ’03).
Bill Saunders (H) 757-596-5436 (O) 757-727-8181 william.saunders@wachoviasec.com and Nelson Durden (H) 757-723-1492 (O) 757-727-6147 ndurden@courts.state.va.us Tom Lawson reports: “I’ve written a book, ‘Carl Jung, Darwin of the Mind,’ published by Karnac Books of London. It is available through online booksellers and some bookstores. I left the practice of law in 1992 and have spent the time since painting and writing. The book is the outgrowth of an interest I have long held in mythology and psychology and the connection between them.” For more information, check out Tom’s Web site: www.ttlawson.com.
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Louie Gump (O) 423-282-3933 lhg703@yahoo.com 55th Reunion: June 2012
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Carl Ragsdale (H) 252-726-3811 Crags1234@aol.com 55th Reunion: June 2013
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J. D. Simpson (H) 501-663-8631 (O) 501-377-2110 jdsimpson@stephens.com
Peggy and Jim Stallworth ’63 and Jeremy Taylor ’63 enjoyed a visit with former EHS faculty member Jack Ordeman and his wife, Mary. The visit included clay-pigeon shooting. Left to right: Mary and Jack Ordeman, Jeremy Taylor ’63, and Jim Stallworth ’63.
John Winfield is still practicing medicine and riding his Harley.
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Please plan to join us for Reunion Weekend at Episcopal June 5-6! It will be a great chance to reconnect with each other and the School. Check out the Class of ’64’s Reunion page on the EHS Web site.
50th Reunion: June 2011
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Bill Julian (H) 757-627-2885 (O) 757-686-1973 waj43@msn.com
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Bev Eggleston (O) 804-359-4840 bevegg@cavtel.net 50th Reunion: June 2012
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Cotten Alston (H) 770-434-2212 (O) 404-310-0541 rca3@mindspring.com 50th Reunion: June 2013
50th Reunion: June 5-6, 2009
Please plan to join us for Reunion Weekend at Episcopal June 5-6, 2009! It will be a great chance to reconnect with each other and the School. Check out the Class of ’59’s Reunion page on the EHS Web site.
1960
Bill Drennen (H) 304-876-1236 (O) 304-876-6400 bill@billdrennen.com 50th Reunion: June 2010
Melissa and Jim Morgan and their son, Theo, visited John Joyner at his ranch in Atascadero, Calif. John’s sister-in-law had brought her wolf, which was in a back pen. His wife was in Florida with their daughter and new granddaughter.
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Alex Jones (O) 617-496-2582 (H) 617-497-2387 JonesAlex@aol.com 45th Reunion: June 5-6, 2009
Humphrey Tyler (H) 860-322-4021 hstyler@comcast.net 45th Reunion: June 2010
Picking up where we left off a year ago, the announcement of a newly created Gwathmey Prize for Excellence in Class Notes Hyperbole has had at least one salutary outcome – Richard B. Gwathmey, Jr. has broken cyber silence and debuted on the EHS ’65 e-mail circuit. Richard, who upon graduation went to U.Va., where he was the rabble-rousing editor of The Cavalier Daily and then stayed on in Charlottesville to earn a law degree, is the Philadelphia area director of FOCUS, a Christian mission targeting high school students in Northeast and Middle Atlantic states. Among the nuggets of news in Richard’s e-mails was the admission that he suffers from the unfortunate genealogical affliction
Upon learning that Richard and Temple are swimming in the same gene pool, Jack Glenn joined the e-mail discussion, confessing that he and Richard are apparently fifth cousins. Exhibiting his good Old Dominion upbringing, Jack politely extended his sincere condolences to Richard for his family connections (although he didn’t specify whether the proffered sympathy was being tendered for the Grassi or Glenn relations). And, wrote Jack, if Richard found the existence of a class cousin intolerable, Jack volunteered to be expelled from our ranks and join the Class of ’66. (This is hardly a selfless proposal, however, for it’s widely known that the Class of ’66 has much better parties than does ’65, the standard having been set years ago on graduation night in June ’66 on the first floor of Dalrymple Hall.) Meanwhile, monitoring all the online chatter about Gwathmey’s tangled family ties, Bill “The Chief ” Raney logged in with the news that many years ago he and Richard had both been involved with the same not-for-profit when Richard lived in North Carolina (which, on the face of it, would seem to be grounds for a conspiracy investigation by the state attorney general). “I was on the board, and Richard served as the part-time executive director for a short time,” wrote Bill. “That technically meant that I was Richard’s boss, but everybody who knows Richard would understand who was always in charge.” Bill proudly reports that his daughter, Whitley ’09, will be graduating from The High School this June. “She is a far better student and athlete than I ever was,” says Bill, who has returned to the Hill often recently. “My several trips to EHS over the past
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