CLASS NOTES
the fall of 1958 with fellow classmates Don Wilson and Faris Worthington. I transferred to Poly in 1960, long, long ago, but I clearly remember many of the kids, teachers and events [at Friends]. Joe Cowan, Downie McCarty, Curt Andrews, Tommy Helfrich, Carl Zieghaus, Kathy Benesch, Carol Williamson, Suzy Katzenberg ... just to name a few. And I remember many of our great teachers: Mr. Peacock (I remember him calling Carl “Carl Taseff,” referring to a member of the Baltimore Colts), Mr. Richwagen (I think he had us carrying lacrosse sticks to class), Miss Powers (I still remember the alma mater — and the play!), Miss Dibert, our stern but wonderful English teacher, and our Latin teacher, Miss Hetrich. I remember those morning assemblies ... and the occasional skits put on by Joe Harlen. They were hilarious. Great school. I often wonder why I left. I hope you enjoy this flashback.” Thank you, Ben, and welcome home. Your class secretaries look forward to hearing from you all!
1965 This class needs a secretary. If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office. Hotty Toddy gosh almighty who the heck are we? Flim flam, bim bam, the Class of ’65 by damn. • We are the class who never, ever forgets those of our group whom the Lord has taken from us. They are Laverna Bauer, Jane Royston, Julia Warner, Bessel Kok, Kenard Knust, and Lance Cpl John Yeager. • We are the only class ever who enjoyed two 50th Reunions. “Enjoyed” is an understatement. We rollicked, hugged, hugged some more, ate, drank, drank some more and thoroughly enjoyed each other. • We are the only class who celebrated the induction of five individual classmates into the Athletic Hall of Fame. Molly Donker, Nancy Dashiells, Kenard Knust, Phil Buck and Mike Owens were honored and joined Gary Wedeking and Teela Clifford in the Hall. No class has been so blessed with so many great athletes and teammates. • Our class has been honored to participate on MSA championship lacrosse teams and to celebrate the first winning football
season since just after World War II. We sent our student athletes on to star in college athletics all over the country. • The Class of ’65 sent more men off to the Vietnam War than any class. Dan Merlis, Bobby Bitner, Dave Boulden, Fred Moran and John Yeager served for our freedom. Many others fulfilled their military obligation to their Country by volunteering in the National Guard and Reserves. We are so proud of these classmates. • Between the two 50th Reunions, Mary Lou Hanley had two grandchildren and George Vandora tied the knot with Laura White. It was tough to tell who was happier. We saw some of our great classmates, Kathy Hutman, Marsha Gunts, Richard Levi, Steve Cole and Charlie Gibson whom we had not seen for quite a while. The beat went on as if we had all seen each other just last week. The Class of ’65 sticks together. We had classmates from as far away as San Diego and as close as Meadowood Road at our two Reunions. The two Reunions provoked a great turnout. We are also the very first class to embrace a member of another class as one of our own, Jac Knust ’66. Check out the class picture. • As usual, the queen of our class, Mary Dell Harlan, in concert with Kate Maskarinec, Meg Whiteford and Ashley Principe from School, made all the festivities smooth and perfect. Mary Dell had a lot of help from Mary Lou, Holly, Gretchen, Karin and Russell. • No one left without the desire to have another get-together before the official five year hiatus ends. Now we have to make it happen. I am sure that Mary Dell will be up to the task. • Hugs to all …
1966 Nina Lasagna Patry npatry@icloud.com Save the Date! May 5-8, 2016 Alumni Weekend 2016 and 50th Reunion Celebration Send us your news!
1967 Jane Thursby mejanemd@gmail.com Mark Merlis is doing well and living in the Philadelphia area. On March 24, 2015, his newest book, “JD: A Novel”
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was published. The book, along with others by Mark, is available for purchase on Amazon.
1968 Arlene Dannenberg Bowes adbowesdmd@gmail.com After 40 years of civil trial law practice in private firms and government trial work, W. Berkeley (Buck) Mann, Jr., switched this year to pro bono cases for the Colorado Legal Services, a nonprofit legal aid organization. His cases involve domestic violence, children at risk and poverty. Buck writes, “Despite the issues, and maybe because of them, it is good work with great colleagues.”
1969 Frank Bond, Jr. fbondini.bond@gmail.com Ron Kovach writes, “Not too much to report here, but Chad and I did some exotic traveling this past winter. We flew to Singapore, took a cruise around Borneo and the Indonesian Islands and ended up in Bali for a week. It was a pretty cool trip, and we spent some time on the island of Komodo, visiting the Komodo dragons, a bucket list item since reading about them in the ‘Weekly Reader.’ (Is that even still published?) Nobody was eaten (only one tourist lost in the last 25 years).” From Graham Yearley:
“After two ear surgeries and the loss of hearing they brought, I am now learning the life of amplified noise with a hearing aid. I hear a lot of unnecessary things like the key sliding in my car door, but I also hear every word spoken at church or a 12 Step meeting, which is sheer joy. My father turned 100 on April 26, and it is wonderful to have him with us. I see Julia Frank’s mother almost every time I visit Roland Park Place to see my dad.” Speaking of Julia, she writes, “I have moved from GWU to a nearly full-time position at the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the adult outpatient psychiatry clinic. Although I am as green as grass there, I claim to be the longest-serving member of the staff, having started at UMB as a candy striper, back in 1967. Meanwhile, my mother is still taking classes from Gary Blauvelt at Roland Park Place. Baltimore is a small town big city, for sure.” Chris Ramsey is on Facebook, which is where she and I usually communicate. She tells me, “Yes, Facebook is night time, zombie time for me.” For my money, one of the best zombie writers I’ve ever encountered. It must be the training in Middle School from Ruth Dibert! Mosie Lasagna writes from Iowa, “Forgive me for failing yet again to send any news to Friends. Ah well. At least you can rely on me for that!” — translation, things are going well here. In addition, Mosie promised to meet me over a bottle of Pinot the next time she is in Baltimore. As soon as I have a calendar date on that, I will share it and we’ll make it
FRANK BOND ’69 officiates the wedding of his son Daniel Faulkner-Bond ’05 and Daniel’s
bride Elizabeth Dacy.