CLASS NOTES summer months, he and wife Deborah Adams McKean ’56 return to their place in Cushing, Maine, so I hope to see Phil and Deborah when I am up sailing on the coast this summer. Phil and Deborah spent Christmas with their son and daughter (both NMH graduates) and their families in Santa Barbara, Calif. We expect to see both Phil and Deborah at our 60th. Marcia Samuel lives in her grand Victorian house in Hackettstown, N.J. She was expecting to see me at the D.L. Moody reception in New York in January, but I had decamped to Hilton Head Island, S.C. Marcia plays lots of bridge and is another expert gardener, raising prize-winning dahlias. Marcia spent her career with IBM in New York, retiring as an expert computer systems engineer. Marcia went to Bucknell with me, but I didn’t know her then. Thayer Shafer lives Sheridan, Wyo. He is in good health and has invited anyone traveling West to stop for a visit. Sheridan was voted the best cowboy town recently and was selected by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of the dozen most distinctive places to visit in the country. Thayer plans to be at our 60th reunion, as well as to attend his 55th reunion at UNH this year. Roger Howard and Suzie Craig Hastings rented another place in Hilton Head, S.C., this year. She came over, and we shared a couple of chocolate martinis. Her brother, Ralph “Tim” Craig ’50, also has a home at Hilton Head. I received a nice card from Marjorie Hubbard, wife of our loyal alum Dick Hubbard. Dick passed away about a year ago, but Marjorie always enjoyed the fun we have at our reunions and wants to be kept in the loop, so we welcome her with open arms to our 60th. I have spoken recently with our old friend Curt Ormond, who lives in Colorado Springs, Colo., and plans to be back for our 60th. Curt still sails his Sunfish competitively every Sunday, as well as runs and plays tennis. He joined a group of NMH grads in Boulder, Colo., for a 5K run recently. Curt frequently goes to the antique auto auctions in Phoenix, Ariz., to engage his hobby of antique autos. He has a 1923 Ford Model T depot hack, meaning a taxi. I heard from Bob Beavins and Charles Blatchford. Bob lives in Glen Mills, Pa., on the Main Line of Philadelphia, and Charles lives in Fair Oaks, Calif., outside of Sacramento. Bill Young, who lives in Scituate, Mass., on the south shore of Boston, has developed a unique business in which he infuses microbes in foam rubber and then if you place the foam on an oily or greasy area, the microbes eat the oil. He sent me a piece of foam shaped like a fish, and I put it in the bilge of my sailboat and it cleaned the bilge miraculously. We expect to see Bill at our 60th. In closing, I want to thank everyone for your contributions to both the general fund and to the McVeigh Scholarship Fund. As you may remember, we set up the McVeigh Scholarship fund at our 40th reunion to honor our great French teacher, crosscountry and track coach, Fred McVeigh. He would be very proud.
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DONALD HILLER 102 Javelin Ct Cary NC 27513-5110 dhiller@nc.rr.com LISA TUTTLE EDGE 1110 Cooperskill Rd Cherry Hill NJ 08034 (11/1–5/31) 180 Main St Chatham MA 02633-2424 (6/1–10/31) etedge@aol.com DON FREEMAN 23 Avery Brook Rd, PO Box 132 Heath MA 01346-0132 d.freeman4@verizon.net
From Lisa: September 30 weekend we enjoyed each other’s company during a minireunion consisting of meals in Alumni Hall; a get-together at Taylor’s Tavern; cocktails and dinner at Myrifield, Margaret and Don Freeman’s bucolic conference center/home in the woods of Heath, Mass.; cocktails at Svein Arber’s; dinner at Wiggins Tavern; a slide show of the 50th; attending classes, the football game, and meeting with Head of School Peter Fayroian. In the English class I attended, the students (and I) sat on huge yoga balls, which the teacher rightly observed forces you to sit up, balance, and pay attention, and at the same time you can bounce and relax. I cannot quite imagine Miss Eva using yoga balls, although Mr. Freeman might have been game. The Northfield attendees were Nancy Jones Cicia, Diane Woods, Eunice Whitney Heinlein, Barbara Zschiesche Cooley, Sylvia Barnard, Mary Senter Hart, and Elizabeth Tuttle Edge. For a video, Google: YouTube and search
NMH Class of ’55 Mini-Reunion. Barbara Zschiesche Cooley and I arranged for a visit to Russell Sage Chapel, which Hobby Lobby has beautifully restored, using the original plans found in the archives. The plans called for two major stones to anchor each side of the roof, which were missing. Just think, all those years the roof could have fallen in. Hobby Lobby also spent millions to restore the 18th-century organ that had been removed in the 1940s. It occupies the marble arch in back of the chancel behind the altar. The caretaker from Grand Canyon University (GCU) who showed us around said the town had been very unwelcoming. The plans were for a 5,000-student residential campus, which would probably overwhelm East Northfield. Once the university was established, it was to become independent of GCU and acquire a new name more suitable to New England. GCU has declined the offer to take over the campus and on 12/31/12, Hobby Lobby gave the campus to the National Christian Foundation, which will continue the search for a suitable owner. Sylvia Barnard has self-published a book of poems Trees, which will be distributed to bookshops in Great Barrington, Mass., and Troy and Albany, N.Y. In January, she traveled to Sicily with the
Virgilian Society, and as I write, Sylvia is exploring the temples at Agrigento. Mary Senter Hart, Dini Woods, and Svein Arber met at the Portland Art Museum this fall to see the Winslow Homer exhibit of Maine paintings. Mary has moved to a retirement place in Falmouth, Maine. She has a single, free-standing home and highly recommends the move. She also has a fabulous 1755 house (with a 1990 addition) for sale in Damariscotta, Maine. It has a few acres and the best view of the Damariscotta River. If interested, email Mary at msh1755@aol.com. Mernie Heywood Tedrow and her sisters Harriet “HaHa” Heywood Stambaugh ’45 (Indianapolis, Ind.), Jane Haywood Brown ’50 (Gloucester Mass.), and Margie enjoyed a “sisters’ week” in Williamsburg, Va., this fall. On their way back to Pennsylvania, Margie’s Acura sedan was rear-ended and totaled by an SUV on I-95 near Richmond. The sisters suffered only a few aches and bruises and were able to rent a car to continue on to Margie’s house feeling very blessed. In ’95, Sally Barlow Jorgensen retired from teaching at the University of Minnesota vet school, where she saw the need to get more minority students interested in science. To that end, Sally has volunteered for 15 years to improve science programs in the Minneapolis public schools. Teachers were avoiding science lessons because the science kits required too much preparation. Sally assembles groups of volunteer seniors and autistic children to pre-tag the kit supplies, so they are ready for the teachers to use. Sally has received a lot of feedback from grateful teachers. In addition, the seniors and children are grateful for meaningful work. Suzanne Rowan Sachatello and Charles are spending the winter in Fernandina on Amelia Island, Fla., to help care for Sedona, their granddaughter (1 1/2 ), whose parents are emergency room doctors working nine-hour shifts in the island hospital. Suzanne’s other winter project is researching her mother’s family. Suzanne and Charles will return to Kentucky in April for the summer. They have three married children and three grandchildren, who were all in Florida for the holidays. Carol Strom Black died on 9/9/12 in Auburn, Ala. She is survived by her husband and three children. Kay Delle Smith Koch died of breast cancer on 8/26/12 in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Kay Delle graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in journalism. She and her husband, Richard, raised their daughter and son in St. Joseph, Mich., where she volunteered for the University
Ernie Imhoff ’55 with his granddaughter Lillian Imhoff (8) aboard the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown