Class Notes 1971–1990
Left to right, Don Brennan, Jay Williams, Ed Giandomenico, Doug Lamont, and Paul Varney, all Class of ’73, at the first annual Varney/Wells tournament at the Southers Marsh executive course in Plymouth, Mass.
delighted to receive messages from her former students. 1971 FRED AMES became a grandfather on March 22, 2020, to Lucy Peabody Gardner Lydon, who shares a birthday with her uncle, SAM AMES ’11. WILLIAM MARKS is chief marketing officer and the senior advisor to civil rights attorney Ben Crump, and works with him on the Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Jacob Blake cases. He also seeks justice for the children of Flint, Michigan, victimized by toxic water and environmental racism. ► SYLVIE PERON is co-editor of
Ultimate Jet and Helicopter Industry magazines. A former editor-in-chief of Altitudes, a lifestyle magazine dedicated to business aviation, Sylvie joined the Ultimate Jet media team in September 2019. Previously, she was editor-in-chief of Yachting World France, in Cannes. “I live on the French Riviera, up in the hills in Fayence between Cannes and St. Tropez, a scenic area well-known for its gliding. I am still active in journalism, co-editing Ultimate Jet, an online luxury lifestyle business aviation magazine.” Unfortunately, in early November 2020, France was again put under lockdown, so she is super careful. With asthma, Sylvie is limiting her trips to shops and the farmers’ markets. She misses visits with
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friends and hopes this is behind us soon. 1973 ▲ DON BRENNAN, JAY WILLIAMS, ED GIANDOMENICO, DOUG LAMONT, and PAUL VARNEY gathered
on a mid-October day with a clear sky and light breeze for a round of golf at the first annual Varney/Wells tournament at the Southers Marsh executive course in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They noted, “Five of the top athletes from the Milton class of 1973 getting together for the first time in quite a while, what
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could possibly go wrong?” Well, plenty, actually. Doug Lamont writes: “It all started on the first tee when Donnie Brennan skulled his first drive and then an illegal mulligan, both hard left, and the ball went into a bright red cranberry bog. ‘I don’t get it, I was playing great last week,’ Don blurted, as his foursome partners looked on in horror. To add insult to injury, Paul Varney gave him the business from the deck overlooking the tee. “It didn’t get much better as Eddie dribbled his first shot into the pond on the right. ‘If you’re drinking your cranberry juice
at Thanksgiving and find a ball in it, it’s probably mine,’ Eddie joked later, when several of his and the group’s balls landed up in the Ocean Spray. Eventually the team got it together and started hitting most of the par threes on the back nine, including Eddie rolling in a 35-foot putt on the 18th hole. Doug says it was a humbling experience for the guys who were on teams that routinely routed Nobles in football, soccer, hockey, basketball, baseball, and lacrosse. (Then again, he says, Milton didn’t have a golf team back in those days, so that’s their excuse and they’re sticking to it.)”