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’41 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Dick Marden ’41 59 Elm Street Wolfeboro, NH 03894 rgmarden@gmail.com
’42–’44 Thinking it would be nice to see Class Notes for your class? Why not volunteer as the Class Correspondent and encourage your classmates to reconnect in the HST Class Notes. Contact Melissa Stuart, Director of Alumni Relations at 603.779.5228 or alum@holderness.org. Thank you!
’45 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Harry Emmons ’45 5 Canoe Trail Darien, CT 06820 emmonshr@gmail.com
’46 Thinking it would be nice to see Class Notes for 1946? Why not volunteer as the Class Correspondent and encourage your classmates to reconnect in the HST Class Notes. Contact Melissa Stuart, Director of Alumni Relations, at 603.779.5228 or alum@holderness.org. Thank you!
’47 An update on John Summers … John retired two years ago at the age of 82 from the store he built in Keene 62 years before. After retiring John didn’t let any “grass grow under his feet.” First, he became a director of Pathways for Keene which is raising money to build a 2.1-million-dollar pedestrian bridge over three major highways just outside of Keene. He is also a founding member and
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director of The Friends of Pisgah that helps maintain Pisgah State Park, and a founding member of the Stone Arch Bridge Committee that is saving a 170-year-old stone arch railroad bridge in Keene. When he is not volunteering, John has had a wonderful time as a great grandfather for twin boys— these being the ninth and tenth great grandchildren so far! He has been delighted to watch his grandchildren and great grandchildren grow … They really know how to wrap him around their little fingers! John and his wife are downsizing this year from a large home and land to a much smaller lifestyle, as they would like to travel more in the future. John hopes that all his classmates are healthy and happy. … Bob Barlow reports that he is as “happy as a clam.”… Don Smith sends in that he attended a ceremony in Florida at which his son received a promotion to Brigadier General. CLASS CORRESPONDENT Bill Briggs ’47 12718 Golf Club Drive Savannah, GA 31419 Phone: 912.921.4548 Maggiebriggs24@ymail.com
’48 Reunion Weekend 2013 will take place Friday through Sunday, September 20–22, 2013. It will be 1948’s 65th. Yes, it is our 65th reunion! If you have missed the details, contact Melissa Stuart, Director of Alumni Relations at mstuart@holderness.org or 603.779.5228. Special 65th reunion features will include a welcome reception with Head of School Phil Peck who will also be returning to Holderness after his 2012–13 sabbatical in NYC. In addition our Reunion Clerk, Charlotte Bates ’16, will share her bright and fun campus experi-
ence with us. What more could you ask for? There were twentyseven classmates when we graduated. When we gather for our 65th this September, we will also find quiet moments to remember those who are no longer with us: Charlie Corcoran, Bill Dover, John Dunn, Al Early, Doug Garner, Edgerton Grant, Louis Hain, Bill Hayden, Ted Jenkel, Ted Jose, Maury Lyon, John Miller, Stan Patterson, Hank Piper, James Silverman, Buck Tredwell, Don Wallwork, and Chris Weld. Each is missed but remembered. The 65th will be a very special time at a very special school with very special classmates … Bart Chase reports that they have sold their home in Parkdale, OR in the shadow of Mt. Hood, and have moved to the Portland area. Bart still remains active skiing and playing golf … Peter Frenning lost his wife, Norita, of many years, in 2011 and moved to an assisted-living facility in East Amherst, NY. He continues to love music, although uses a wheel chair much of the time … Rik Clark and his wife Sandy, continue to spend three winter months each year in Palm Springs, CA; they are blessed with good health and stay active with travel, golf, and spinning classes. CLASS CORRESPONDENT Rik Clark ’48 855 South County Road PO Box 899 Osterville, MA 02655-0899 Phone: 508.428.5262 Email: capeclarks@aol.com
’49 Bob Barrows reports, from Weddington, NC, that he remains active at the YMCA, which keeps him in one piece with only the “usual aches and pains, but noth-
Rik Clark ’48 and Tabor Academy’s Head of School John Quirk
ing major at this time.” Bob now has eight grandchildren who, along with their parents, are well … Bob Bradner has rejoined his parish choir in Winnetka, IL. Although he wasn’t sure he’d be up to it, he reports that “I’m enjoying it greatly; it’s a great community of people, and I haven’t fallen down the chancel steps yet. One of the incentives was to join my two Illinois grandchildren on the choir’s trip to England in August this year to sing at Yorkminster Cathedral.” Bob is working on persuading his daughter to join in, reasoning that three generations singing together at Yorkminster Cathedral would be about as cool as church singing can get. Amen to that … Pat and Tex Coulter got away from their Duxbury, MA home to Marco Island, FL for the month of March. He reports that although the weather has been on the cool side, the air is less humid, and “all in all, it beats snowy Massachusetts.” Tex tried playing tennis with his “new” knee (from last July); and it “worked fine until I pulled a groin muscle.” Fortunately his injury hasn’t interfered with his gigs playing with the Marco Island Strummers …
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