THE KINKAID SCHOOL
1960
in an experimental treatment 1962 ipated for melanoma at MD Anderson
Sassy English Stanton Houston, Texas 713-266-9919 sassy@stanton-pinckard.com
Houston, Texas adrian@rexross.com Dear Class of 1962,
1961 Samuel Crocker Houston, Texas 713-528-3858 samuelcrockerlaw@gmail.com First, I have an update of significant events since our last class news. We were all saddened by the loss of Chuck Kennedy, Irvin Barnhart and Linda Patterson Parker. Chuck both practiced law and served as Fred Earhart’s partner in their Central American Regency Hearts of Palm company, real estate and other such ventures. He leaves behind his wife Mary and two daughters, Anne ’93 (fs) and Emily ’95 (fs), both Rice and law grads. Irv’s Marlboro man good looks and charm enhanced his dual career - building a world-class collection of game trophies harvested from almost 100 hunts to every corner of the globe and the fruits of his lifelong dedication to the conservation of many endangered species. His museum is an incredible tour of animals and birds from all over. He leaves behind his wife Wendy, his intrepid co-hunter. After UT, Linda donned the stewardess cap, which she doffed to devote her energies to her family (a husband of 50 years, three kids and seven grandchildren), her church and her community, Lakeway. I was delighted to hear from Craig Meyer, who left the workaday world several years ago to take up residence at his ranch in the Hill Country so that he could to devote his energies to the loving care of his wife and to continue with his active consulting practice. Since 1978 Kenny Knapp, always one of our most athletic, has built three log cabins (Barry Rose ’62 helped with the first) in the deep wilds of Montana overlooking Glacier Park. Ed Baird often joined Kenny and Barry for thrilling hikes and snowmobile races in one of America’s most beautiful and spectacular gems. Those three, with Allan Klein ’62, were inseparable friends who set the highest standard for providing special round-the clock care to Fred Earhart during his final long illness. Stay tuned for my next installment as classmates are finally responding to my plea for news. If you are ’61 and reading this and have not sent me an update, you now have no excuse.
Adrian Turner Ross
which was completely successful! (A related note is that I sat next to Earl in Kindergarten—and I am so happy to hear his news.)
I only received four replies with information from my requests for updates, but they were all excellent responses.
Best wishes to you all for a healthy, happy 2016, Adrian Turner Ross
First off, it was great to hear from Chris Curran. His update was most welcome since we haven’t heard from him in a very long while. He reports that after five years at Rice, he completed a Ph.D. in economics from Purdue. He has been teaching economics at Emory in Atlanta. After 46 years of teaching at Emory, he is expecting to “finally” retire. His home is in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, at the intersection of North and South Carolina and Georgia. He has been busy spending his time training dogs. He notes that he and his wife just returned from a 25-day trip to Ireland, a trip they enjoyed and hope to repeat.
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Gibson Carothers ‘62, Adrian Turner Ross ‘62, Chip Stanberry ‘62, Kinkaid friends for 60 years
Even though Susan Cooper Gaudet thinks she has nothing of interest to report, I disagree! She and her husband have had numerous visits with family, and during their travels visited the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, as well as Fenway Park where James Taylor was crooning old and new tunes on a beautiful summer evening, a concert that definitely appeals to our generation. She even saw Frankie Vallee perform— at age 81. In addition to travelling the northeast and seeing bands perform, Susan is still tutoring at a nearby school. Next up, Carolyn Ferguson Means writes that she and her husband Hal recently returned from a conference of educational consultants in Scottsdale. She said that some of the younger members of her family have made some spectacular mountain climbs during the past summer. And, finally, great news from Earl Hankamer who reports that he partic-
Calanne Koenig Choate Pearland, Texas mayamom@hotmail.com Oh my goodness! What a wonderful response from the Class of 1963! I’ve had such fun reading all these wonderful emails! Our class is definitely alive and well! From Debbie and David Shaver: “The big news from New Orleans is that my first grandchild, Jonathan David Shaver, Jr., was born on August 13. He’s precious! Debbie and I are relearning our infant care and babysitting skills. We hiked for seven consecutive days at Mt. Rainier in Washington this summer. Our physical endurances were put to the test! From Mary Nell Jeffers Lovett: “Our grandson Lovett Shaper ‘15 is a freshman at the University of Texas, and our granddaughter Nell Shaper is a junior at Choate. Jeffers Shaper ‘19, Mary Eloise Searls ‘22 and Caroline Searls ‘24 are our remaining Falcons. Malcolm ’62 (fs) and I “crossed over” into the next decade by crossing the pond in June and spending time in London and Scotland. After Christmas in Telluride with our family, we will be counting the days to a lengthy stay in Paris in the spring. We continue to be shameless Francophiles!” Monique Verrey Moser: “Thank you for keeping in touch. I am fine and wish everybody a HAPPY Christmas season.” Kari McGuirt Seger says: “I’m still a weekend resident of Cat Spring, Texas, sharing my place with two mini-donkeys and three horses, plus some area critters. Loving being Baby Brandt’s Nana. I enjoy seeing Calanne Koenig Choate and Janie Wadsworth Mason often.” Janie Rommel-Eichorn says: “We are fine. I am still practicing as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Our kids are 32 and 26. The eldest Ben published his first book this year, Edible Gardening, and our daughter Lizzy did all the illustrations. Available for free down load at his website www.growyourlunch. com for all folks who want to garden and need some great tips. Lizzy is an Education Program Coordinator at the Ventana Wilderness Society, whose mission is to save the
endangered California condors on the Central Coast of California. She takes underserved youth into nature to learn about the natural world. Our farm thrives with our organic Meyer lemons and honeybees, and the cottages - www.countryflatfarm. com. Love to all.” From Arnold Hebert: “The Heberts are fine in Arizona. Earlier Sharon and I took a fantastic 4+ month car trip from Scottsdale over to the east coast, up to Maine and all around before arriving back home. We had great fun, saw a lot of sites and ate a lot of fabulous local cuisine.” Carlton Carl tells us: “All is great with me. My little city survived two record-busting floods within six months (on the Brazos and San Marcos Rivers). None of my buildings got wet, but lots of folks had double whammies of 500-year floods on Memorial Day and Halloween weekends. Some had just finished repairing their homes. It is the price of living on a river (creek or beach) that Mother Nature is in charge.” Hap Happel writes: “The Class of ’63 is slowly building a presence in Bozeman, Montana! Patty Milner Marvel and her husband have acquired a condo here and will be in town in late November to turn the keys on their new acquisition. Patty, her charming husband Jeff, lovely daughter Lauren and Lauren’s fiancé Justin will be hosting us for cocktails to be followed by dinner Chez Happel. We’ll see if we can brew up a big snowstorm for the event.” Art Beane wrote: “Our seven children are healthy, employed or parenting, and none are in jail. With those elements in place, life is quite nice. We are grateful for all our blessings. Additionally, in mid-February, for reasons I don’t completely understand, I began writing/ composing Blues, Jazz Blues, Country Blues and a few Gospel Blues tunes. In addition to singing some of my tunes, I am having fun singing some Cash, Clapton, Williams, Albert King, Eagles and other tunes at our local Gloucester micro-brewery Open Mic Night and Georgetown, Massachusetts, VFW Post 7608 Open Mic Night. Pieces I’ve written seem to be well received at both locations. If all goes well, I hope to publish Blues-2-Chuze: A Journey Within sometime next year. I wish my classmates good health, peace and a stressless and prosperous life in the days and months ahead. ;-)” Lucy Clark Shaw writes: “I hope you get a lot of news from many of our classmates. I am in Singapore visiting my daughter and her family who live there. I came on a cruise ship from Seattle on the 30-day cruise to Singapore, which focused on World
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