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A number of Milton alumni gathered to celebrate Kate Brooks’s marriage to Tony Leness on August 18, 2002, in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Back row (from left to right): Michael O’Keefe ’91, Penn Lindsay ’91, Alexandra Ames Lawrence ’89, Tom Cleveland, Emily Brooks ’97, Kate Brooks Leness ’91, Tony Leness, Toby Gannett ’91, Anne Tucker ’93, Isabel Ames ’93, Alex Kerry ’92. Front row (from left to right): David Brooks ’96, John Tucker ’96, Holly Burnes ’66, Lars Albright ’93 and David Millet ’62.
Michelle Buckley is in Berlin, Germany on a scholarship to conduct graduate research in German cultural history. Michelle came across an old issue of the Milton Alumni Magazine while in a Berlin bookstore last December. Audrey Hallow has moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, and teaches fourth grade. Frances Tilney will attend Oxford next year for a two-year M.Phil. degree in Latin American Studies and International Relations.
Mike Descoteaux graduated from Northwestern in June 2002. In March 2002, three Chicago theatres staged his original concept musical This Time. David Moore traveled across the country on roller blades last summer to raise money for the Cam Neeley Foundation of Boston. He raised a total of $10,000 by rollerblading across 16 states in two months.
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In September, Elizabeth Simon started working at Sonoma Technology, a small research and consulting firm specializing in air quality, located just north of San Francisco. She looks forward to hanging out with Brook Hooper, who will remain at Stanford next year to complete a one-year intensive teacher-certification program.
Dorothy L. Stevens Sylvia H. Watson 1926 Elizabeth Sanderson 1928 John L. Grandin Jr. John M. Morse 1932 Eleanor Hallowell Lippincott William C. Quinby, Jr. 1933 Martha Rogerson Estabrook 1935 Carolyn P. Williams Humphrey H. Swift III 1936 Hoima F. Cherau Thomas B. Hunnewell 1939/40 Robert G. Greeley 1943 Edward B. Twitchell 1944 Willard Baldwin Peter R. Goethals Hugh M. Watson Theodore T. Whitney 1945 Graves Desha Hewitt Allan R. White 1946 Ann J.R. Levinson 1948 Robert L. Marks 1951 Alexis L. Belash 1953 David A. Brayton Jr. 1957 Richard S. Higgins Friends Andrew Sloan Ruth Bayard Smith
He served on the surgical staff of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) from 1946 to 1996. A leader in the development of the surgical treatment for severe burns, he was the assistant chief of staff at Shriners Burns Institute for Children in Boston from 1969 to 1985 and a founding surgeon of the Adult Burns Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital until his retirement from active practice. In addition, at various times he served as chief of surgery at several Massachusetts hospitals, including Milton Hospital and Boston City Hospital. For more than 35 years, Dr. Quinby taught part time at Harvard Medical School, and he was also an instructor in pediatric surgery at Boston University from 1960 to 1965. His articles appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of Trauma, and The American Journal of Surgery.
Friends Andrew Sloan, beloved son of J.D. Sloan, died tragically in a car accident on August 20, 2002, in Cleveland, Ohio. Many graduates will remember Andrew from their days in Hallowell House or Goodwin House. J.D. was a member of the faculty from 1988 to 1993 when he and Carly Wade were co-heads of Hallowell (1988–1991) and Goodwin (1991–1993).
He served Milton Academy as the School doctor from 1952 to 1979 and was president of the alumni association on the board of trustees from 1964 to 1967. Dr. Quinby graduated from Harvard University in 1936 and from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1940. At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Quinby interned in surgery and medicine and then served as a captain in the Army Medical Corps in Fiji, India, Burma, and New Zealand during World War II.
Dr. Quinby enjoyed golf, sailing in Maine, and skiing with fellow members of the Schussverein Ski Club in Jackson, New Hampshire. Dr. William C. Quinby, Jr. ’32, a general, pediatric and burns surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital for half a century, died Thursday, August 15, 2002, at Milton Hospital. He was 88. Dr. William C. Quinby, Class of 1932, was a loyal and involved graduate for all of his adult life.
He leaves his wife, Susan Whiteley Quinby; two sons, William III of Charleston, South Carolina, and Jonathan S. ’73 of Woodside, California; two daughters, Marguerite Quinby Eberle ’69 of Concord and Susan S. ’71 of Seattle; and seven grandchildren.