CLASS NOTES
MEMBERS of the Class of 1963 enjoyed brunch in Annapolis with classmate Keiko Hashimoto Kishimoto and her husband Hachi, who were visiting from Japan during Reunion weekend.
HANK KAESTNER ’63 and wife Josie with Lin Parker ’63 at the Parkers’ home in Maine.
please stop and visit! Thanks to Bruce Goodwin and John Slingluff for informing the class more about John Mordecai’s wife Mindy Mordecai’s ECAN work. You can read the article online at baltimorebusinessjournal.com. In the search area, type Mindy Mintz Mordecai and the article will come up. I, Eleanor Blake Fuller, continue my trips from Pennsylvania to Florida and back, eight to 10 times a year. I wish I had a really good answer as to why, since I would be happy in Florida permanently. I went on a fun mini-cruise in October to celebrate a friend’s birthday. (Carol Davidson Methven was also part of the celebration.) Cliff and I got together with Linda Kardash Armiger and Buck while they were in the area for Orioles spring training. They stayed on Siesta Key, which is only a short distance from Longboat Key, where my dad had his motel. Thanks to all who came through with some great notes. It’s so much fun to hear from all of you and I know those who read Collection enjoy catching up. Keep up the good work. Stay healthy and happy.
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Chick Fetter Deegan deeganchicke@aol.com We had such a wonderful time at our 50th Reunion that Trudi Feinberg Cohen challenged our classmates to get on the road and visit each other — and we have been doing just that! Keiko Hashimoto Kishimoto and her husband Hachi visited Linda Lamonica Monk and her husband Harrison in November. Together, they joined the Monks, Judy Klingelhofer O’Mara and her husband Jack, Marge and
Jeb Felter, Lily Kok-Forbush, Anne Skinner White, Gail Moran Milne, and yours truly for a wonderful Sunday brunch in Annapolis. Marge, Jeb, Lily, Gail, Keiko, and Hachi returned to Linda and Harrison’s home for tea and a longer visit. Afterwards Keiko and Hachi visited Sally Taylor Carter in Oregon on their way back to Japan. If we had an award for determination to get to the 50th Reunion, albeit a little late due to a severely broken leg, would definitely go to Keiko! Hank Kaestner and his wife Josie have taken several road trips and visited classmates. They went to Nova Scotia to visit some of Josie’s relatives, and on their way home to Vermont, they dropped by Penobscot, Maine and visited Lin Parker and his wife Anne at their home on a lovely, secluded lake. Hank and Lin started together in the first grade at Lida Lee Tall Elementary School and then both came to Friends School in the seventh grade. Lin had promised classmates who visited him that he would serve them lobster for dinner, and he was a man of his word. We also noticed the stone work on the house in one of the pictures Hank sent. It certainly looks like the home that Lin built is scarlet and gray! Then Hank and Josie traveled to Florida in January for their annual winter escape to the Lago Mar resort, where they have been vacationing during the winter for 30 years. While in Florida they had dinner with Anne Kay Joyner and her husband Bill on the patio of their beautiful home on a canal in Fort Lauderdale. Hank said it took the 50th Reunion to inspire them to make plans for a get together. While Hank and Josie were in Florida, Lin and Anne spent a few weeks on the road, including their first trip to Charleston, S.C., where they plan to spend a month or more next winter. Steve Greif and his wife
Maggie have also been on the road meeting their newest grandson last November and visiting their two older grandchildren in New York on their birthdays in February. Marge and Jeb are still enjoying retirement, concentrating on their “3 Gs”: grandkids, golf and gardening. They take trips to Philadelphia and Lyme, Conn., for grandkid “fixes” fairly often. Their daughter Liz Felter Farrell ‘88 and her husband Bill, along with their two sons, Colin, 6, and Jonathan, 3, are successfully farming on their 12 acres in Lyme, N.Y, surrounded by vegetables, fruits, some grains, cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, maple sugar and honey bees. They have a large greenhouse, a sugar shack and a barn with a solar roof and are close to being fully self-sustaining. Their son Wilson Felter ‘90, his wife Jeanne, their two sons, 12 and 7, and daughter, 10, still live in Philadelphia, and he is deeply involved in the education field. Wilson will begin a new job in July as director of the middle school at Penn Charter Friends School, while Jeanne works for Philadelphia University, where she has created a graduate program in trauma-based counseling this past year. Marge and Jeb are grateful to have seen so many classmates at our 50th Reunion in 2013, and they send their best wishes to everyone! We also have some news about some of our talented offspring: Joe Albert’s daughter Piper Albert sent along a link to son Jagger Clark’s latest video on Irocku.com, where Jagger plays with the Rolling Stones’ famous keyboardist, Chuck Leavell. It’s just wonderful to hear Jagger and to realize he has the attention of such luminary among rock musicians. Grandparents Joe Albert and Button Browne Howard must be very proud! We shared a video of Joan Shinnick
Kreeger’s son, Doug Kreeger, who was interviewed on “Broadway Live” about his life in the theater, co-writing a musical, recording and performing and how he got started. In the 15-minute segment, he talked about his current projects and then he finished with a song. It was touching to learn that he credited his mother, one of the stars of the 1963 Friends School production of “Oklahoma,” as his inspiration. Trudi’s son Adam is quite a musician as well. He has his master’s from Juilliard, lives in California, has three sons and composes music for the TV series, “Psych.” He also composed and orchestrated music for a two-hour live show, “Psych: the Musical.” Trudi sent us links to videos of Adam playing a four-handed piano concert with his friend Susan, another Julliard graduate. She also shared that her other son David, his wife and their three children, have left Vermont and are spending a year in Peru, where David is doing business/financial consulting and enjoying some “serious mountain biking.” We all know that Lily Kok-Forbush is a wonderful singer, but we recently learned that she also plays and teaches both piano as well as the recorder in addition to her other artistic talents. We shared a video of Lily and two of her friends playing their tenor recorders and accompanying a singer and keyboard player during a performance. Despite all of the traveling by our classmates, I have to admit I have been staying close to my home outside of Washington, D.C., and enjoying the theater and ballet. I recently attended a luncheon for retirees from the National Geographic Society and caught up with a few former colleagues. Now I’m back to class for the spring semester at the Johns Hopkins OSHER Institute for Lifetime Learning in Rockville, Md. We hope to see many of our classmates at our next class lunch.
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