“We are all 90!” writes Dorothy “Dot” Schoenfuss Howell ’43, photographed with classmates Mary Jane Halsey Small and Janice Falkin. The three friends, all Chaffee graduates, reunited recently to celebrate Dot’s birthday. More than 125 people attended the festivities. During the celebration, the ladies reminisced about the times they shared in high school from 1939 through 1943. Dot exclaims, “One of us was a Pelican, one a Greyhound! Good memories!” (Editor's Note: At press time we received the sad news that Dot died on November 13, 2015.)
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Bruce Blackwell ’69 is the managing partner and president at Career Strategies Group in New York. In September 2015, he made a presentation for the National Constitution Center on “Alternative Legal Career Issues.” His talk preceded a presentation by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Bruce also spoke in September before the Connecticut Bar Association.
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’85 Members of the Class of 1985 enjoyed a mini-reunion at the season-opener New England Patriots vs. Pittsburg Steelers football game on September 10, 2015. From left to right: Milton Gooding, David Walsh, Eric Jansen, Stephen Paul, Pieter Boelhouwer, Tim Struthers, and Adam Perl.
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Matt Henderson Ellis ’87 translated Hungarian writer Sándor Jászberényi’s short story collection The Devil is a Black Dog (New Europe Books in the United States; Scribe Publications in the United Kingdom; and Laughing Tiger Books in India). The transcribed collection was released and nominated for numerous awards, including PEN Best Translation and the Kirkus Fiction Award. Andrew Vernon ’91 looks forward to seeing his classmates at his upcoming 25th Reunion. He recently reconnected with Jeff Barber ’91 and Matt Whitney ’91 on consecutive nights in Seattle. Both Jeff and Matt were in town for business. Jeff and Andrew (pictured) made plans to reunite and then ran into Matt at the gym of the hotel where both visitors were staying. Matt and Andrew then reconnected the following day at the same hotel. Andrew writes, “What a hilarious coincidence!”
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Richard Adams Carey ’69 writes that his fourth book of narrative nonfiction, In the Evil Day: Violence Comes to One Small Town, was published in September 2015 by the University of New England Press. He cites Booklist for its positive review: “Carey’s tension-filled report of a small town’s terror is portrayed with surprising love, bittersweetness, and hope resulting in a beautifully written and enthralling true-crime tale.”
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