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Jean McKay Eckhardt writes: “After a year of severe illness, I recovered enough to move a year ago to a pleasant assisted living facility in Peterborough, N.H. Summerhill is only four miles from my former home, so it is easy to see my friends and neighbors. I only regret that, by choice, I no longer drive, so can no longer attend those wonderful Homecomings.”
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Dean A. McCallum reports that he lives in an independent living retirement home; his wife, Joyce, is in a nearby Alzheimer’s facility. Dean’s son Mark, his wife, and their four children live in Kirkwood, Mo. “It is a joy to have them nearby,” Dean writes. “Except for dialysis, I am healthy.”
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From Patricia Beach Thompson: “The significant event of the recent past was the wedding of our son Alexis, November 7, 2010, to the lovely Lina, his first marriage at age 46. This was a weekend celebration at Duck Key, Fla. Daughter Melissa Thompson Fischer ’78 is now
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a noted dog trainer and animal portraitist. Daughter Jennifer Thompson ’80, also an artist, last year passed her law exams and is preparing for the bar. Son Thaddeus’ eldest boy just turned 13. Ah, those teen years — angst and adventure!” We regret to report that his wife informs the school that Robert Woodall is in a nursing home with Parkinson’s Disease.
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Leadership Greater Hartford named Anthony “Joe” Cymerys one of the recipients of the 2011 Polaris Award for his “courage and vision in serving the Greater Hartford community and for lighting the way for others to follow.” Joe was honored along with Patricia Kelly, founder, president, and CEO of Ebony Horsewomen; and Pamela Trotman Reid, president of Saint Joseph College, at a reception/silent auction/ award ceremony on September 27, 2011, at the Hilton Hartford Hotel. Joe is widely recognized in Hartford as “Joe the Barber,” who gives free haircuts, shaves, and scalp massages to the homeless in Bushnell Park as well as at Chelsea Place Care
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Center. He volunteers for Foodshare, loading his old van with as much as 2,800 pounds of donations, serves as a Eucharistic minister in his Windsor parish, and is nearing his 800th blood donation to the Red Cross. He also cares for his 94-year-old sister and 96-year-old brotherin-law, who live with him.
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Ira Black writes: “Having a ball looking after my 193 apartments and houses; one grandson just graduated from the University of Pennsylvania; another got picked up by the New Orleans Saints.”
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Carter Elwood (also published as R.C. Elwood) published a new book last year: The NonGeometric Lenin: Essays on the Development of the Bolshevik Party, 1910–1914, published by Anthem Press. Carter is distinguished research professor of history at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont., Canada. He is the author or editor of eight books dealing with pre-revolutionary Russian social democracy. His study Inessa Armand: RevoGeorge Hastings ’45 shared this photograph of himself with his two brothers and significant others: (back) Edward Hastings ’48, John Hastings ’51, and Eugene Barcone, Ed’s long-time partner; (front) George and his wife, Laura. The picture was taken in August 2002 in Santa Fe, N.M., where Ed and Eugene lived until Ed’s death in July 2011. John died in 2002. (An obituary for Ed appears in the “In Memoriam” section of this issue.)
CLASSES ENDING IN 2s AND 7s! Loomis Chaffee wants YOU to celebrate this year! Join classmates, friends, and faculty for your 5th or 60th or any other reunion in between. Look for your invitation this spring. Be sure to receive electronic updates by sharing your email address with the school. Scan the QR code with the mobile device of your choice to update your information, or call 860.687.6273.
“Joe the Barber” Cymerys ’49 is honored for his service to others.
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