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Phillip L. Isenberg, on July 20, 2016, in Boston, Mass., after a long illness. A native of Hartford, Conn., Phil was engaged in many ways with the school community during his four years at Loomis. His leadership roles included Student Council president and Athletic Council president, and he served on the Executive Committee of the Endowment Fund, the Committee of Review, the Senior Entertainment Committee, and the Senior Executive Committee and as regional chairman of the Public Service Conference W.S.S.F. Phil was a member of the Concert Orchestra and was cast in a number of theater productions. A talented athlete, Phil played on first team football for three years, lettering in junior and senior year and serving as team captain senior year. He also lettered in first team baseball and first team basketball, was Ludlow junior basketball coach, and was in the Boxing Club. Phil was awarded the Batchelder Prize and the Gates Cup for Athletics and Scholarship at Commencement, and his senior classmates named him “Most Likely to Succeed” and “Best Athlete,” among other superlatives. Phil continued on his trajectory of achievement at Harvard University, where he was a captain of the football team and violinist in the HarvardRadcliffe Orchestra. He earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and trained in psychiatry. Afterwards, during his two years’ service in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, Phil went through military medical training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, with his lifelong friend, classmate, and teammate at Loomis and Harvard, Samuel Blumenthal ’47. Boston’s Columbia Point Medical Center,
the first neighborhood health center, was where Phil began his professional career in social psychology, and he subsequently worked at the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, and the Joslin Clinic. In recognition of his clinical talents, Phil was named director of residency training at McClean Hospital, where he mentored young people who became dedicated clinicians, researchers, and academics in the area of psychiatric medicine. After retiring in 1994, he accepted the clinical chair of psychiatry at the American University of Antigua College of Medicine, where he continued to oversee the training of medical students. Preceded in death by his daughter Caroline Rose Isenberg and his step-daughter, Bess Emily Jelin, Phil was survived by his wife, Alice Jelin Isenberg; his children Marcus Isenberg and Emily Davison; his step-son, James Jelin; his sister, Katharine Lavitt; his two nieces, Elizabeth Kohn ’93 and Candice Naboicheck Dolce ’98; and his five grandchildren. Samuel Blumenthal spoke of his dear friend and colleague at a memorial service in September 2016, where he stated that Phil’s ambition was not focused on physical supremacy on the playing field, but on becoming a violin virtuoso. Samuel furthered, “Not domination, but mastery. My Phil Isenberg was great without being grandiose, he was manly without being macho, he was worldly, yet childlike, he was in a word noble, and his nobility, as the philosophers like to say, was the thing itself.”
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Alderson Magee, on August 28, 2016, in Vernon, Conn. A three-year student from Hartford, Conn., Sandy, as he
was known, was involved in the Glee Club and active in Allyn junior hockey, soccer, and track. After a three-year enlistment in the U.S. Marine Corps, he went on to earn a bachelor’s degree at the University of Connecticut. Sandy learned to fly airplanes at 19 years of age and was a lifelong aviation enthusiast. As technical representative and director of trade show exhibits in his 16-year career with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Sandy was able to travel extensively and met Mary Ann Kaspar, his secretary, who later became his wife. The two married in 1970 and made their home in Sharon, Conn. Sandy changed his career to professional scratchboard artistry. He was named in Who’s Who in American Art and won numerous awards, including the Federal Duck Stamp Award l976, Hudson Valley Art Association Gold Medal of Honor 1975, Salmagundi Fitch Award 1977, Society of Animal Artist 1981, and American Artists Professional League Gold Medal of Honor 1978. Sandy was a founding member of the Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association and served as secretary. In addition to flying in his private airplane, Sandy enjoyed travel, gardening, sailing, tennis, bread baking, and antique shopping. He will be remembered as a kind, affectionate, and thoughtful person who was possessed of a wonderfully dry sense of humor. He was survived by Mary Ann, his wife of 46 years; his daughter, Kathryn Kenney, and her husband, Raymond; two grandchildren; and several extended family members. A memorial service was held on September 10, 2016, at Saint Bridget’s Church in Manchester, Conn.
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Judith Munch Pinney, on June 12, 2016. A four-year student from Hartford, Conn., Judy served as Student Council president and was active in field hockey at The Chaffee School. Judy attended Wheaton College and The Hartt College of Music, and in 1964 she received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Hartford. She took post-graduate courses at Trinity College, Hartford Graduate Center, and New England Institute for Neuro Linguistic Programming, and she was certified in Ericksonian Hypnosis. After doing research work at St. Francis Hospital and medical writing at the University of Connecticut Medical Center, Judy went on to become an accomplished freelance medical writer. A member and fellow of the American Medical Writers Association, American Public Health Association, New York Academy of Sciences, and National Coalition on Aging, Judy also was listed as a distinguished leader in health care by the publication Who’s Who in American Women. She was a secretary and Executive Committee member of the Hartford Chapter of the American Cancer Society and American Red Cross and a board member of Planned Parenthood and the Hartford Conservatory of Music. She was a corporator of Hartford Hospital and a charter board member of the Greater Hartford Community Hospice, and she served on numerous committees. Judy also served as a 60th Reunion chair at Loomis Chaffee in 2006–07. Judy was passionate about her work with Hospice and enjoyed cooking, skiing, tennis, bridge, travel, playing the piano, gardening, classical music, theatre, and mineralogy. She loved learning. Judy’s sister Elizabeth Munch Winter 2017
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