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NC, where she and husband Tom moved in ’99 after working and raising their 2 sons in ME and VT. Liz retired in ’10 from teaching pre-K through 4th grade, reading recovery, and academically gifted. Her current project is training their mini golden doodle as a therapy dog, which will keep her working with both children and the elderly. Tom is a family practitioner. They enjoy sailing and travel and have taken barefoot cruises to a variety of locations. Son Michael is an architect in Manhattan, and son Matthew, an engineer, owns a custom woodworking business in San Diego, where he lives with his wife and their only grandchild. Liz has a great appreciation for the education, experiences, and memories she carries from those years at Northfield. Sheila Morse traveled with boss Swanee Hunt to the desert in Rajasthan, India, to camp, ride camels, and shop, then returned to Delhi to attend a conference convened by the Dalai Lama. She’d never been in such a luxurious hotel as the Taj Palace in Delhi nor anyplace as surprisingly cold as the desert. Later they were asked to set a 5-year agenda to work on alleviating world poverty, a goal perhaps too ambitious even for the Hunt Alternatives Fund, www.huntalternatives.org. A high point for Sheila was when 2 Women Waging Peace Network members were among the 3 recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. Another high point was finalizing plans to retire at the end of 6/12 and enjoy their VT home, spend more time with partner Dick, and return to traveling to Italy and Israel more frequently. Sons Joshua and Jonathan traveled to S Africa to visit their father in late summer. Jonathan is now employed at Hunt as well. She’s looking forward to spending time with NMH friends in June. Their home is 20 minutes from campus, and they have extra bedrooms if anyone needs accommodations. For the first time in 31 years, Bruce Burnside and his 3 daughters weren’t together for Christmas but did spend Thanksgiving together. Bruce finetuned his main recording studio before recording more of the fretted instruments and vocals for his orchestrated Civil War CD. He commissioned a new banjo and has written several songs for that project. He’s also been thinking about writing a book on the life of Dan Emmitt,19th-century composer of such standards as “Old Dan Tucker” and “Dixie.” All he needs is an interested publisher. Bruce will probably also go back to the drawing board to illustrate his book If I Had a Friend. One never knows what precipitates a classmate contact. Liz Schoen Burgess ’66 wanted to return a hole punch she borrowed from Wendy Syer over 45 yrs ago. Wendy is the asst dir of international education at the U of TN in Knoxville. She would like to trade the stress and work to travel the world but reports she is still happily married and trying to encourage her son (25) to become independent. Lawyer-turned-underwater videographer Jay
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Garbose says sea conditions were less than optimal for a while, so his wetsuit stayed dry longer that he would like, but he put the free time to use relandscaping the yard, replacing a bathroom sink and faucets and 2 electrical boxes for outside lighting, digging a 20-foot French drain for the outside shower, and surfacing the front entrance with marble pavers—not skills he learned at NMH. Jay says he enjoys the contacts with classmates through Facebook. Join him and nearly 100 others by entering Northfield Mount Hermon Class of 1967 in the Facebook search window. And for the latest news with pictures, check out our web page at www.nmh1967.com.
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Steve Cole’s son Andrew ’12 has been accepted early decision to Elon in NC. Older son Taylor graduates with a degree in music this May. He will be shadowing Sheila Heffernon at NMH over winter break to get a taste of 24/7 boarding school life. Steve does consulting work when not traveling— he and wife Chris had a great 2-week sailing trip off the Amalfi coast this fall with 2 other couples. Chris is consulting in public education after 30 years at JPMorgan Chase and other financial institutions. “While we are still in Wilmette outside of Chicago, we have a winter home in Naples FL for any classmates who want some sun.” Steve Cone authored another book, Steal These Ideas: Marketing Secrets That Will Make You a Star. Second Edition. You can check it out on Amazon. Class teachers Jeanne and Dale Conly ’52 celebrated their 50th anniversary on Nantucket with all the family last Aug. “Yes, we made it through 39 of those years enjoying working with great teenagers like you all. Fondly, Dale and Jeanne.” Doreen Davenport Rasteiro spent a few hours on the NMH campus with a co-worker whose daughter is looking at schools—many new and beautiful buildings. Both were impressed, which made Doreen quite proud.
Susan Donaldson James is still churning out stories for ABCNews.com, her late-in-life career. Son Alexander, who works for iMentor in the NYC Schools, was married in Sept, and daughter Megan is a reporter for VT’s Seven Days newspaper. “Life is good, even at 61.” Ted Finlayson-Schueler writes: “I guess 43 years is long enough to gather news.” He earned two bachelor’s degrees from Syracuse and is now stalled in a PhD program there in disability studies. His wife of 32 years is a bilingual school psychologist in the Syracuse School District, working with Spanishspeaking kids and refugee children. They have a son (24) and a daughter (21). “By a strange string of coincidences, I have become a school bus safety expert, and I write training curricula and operation manuals, do consulting for government agencies at the state and local level, and serve as an expert witness in civil cases.” They are active in their church and sing in the alumni choir at Sacred Concert, where Ted always runs into classmates Jay Ward and Steve Tower. Jay Garbose ’67, brother of our classmate David Garbose, who died shortly after graduation, found our class banner and posted a photo of it to our Facebook page. Wendy Golenbock reports that her son, a senior captain of the MIT soccer team, was selected as an all-league first-team pick and played in the regional Division III NEISL all-star game, where he scored the winning goal. Wendy is an educational consultant, giving college guidance and teaching SAT study skills, and enjoys spending time on Facebook with NMH friends. John Hansbury has been named co-president of the board of directors of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. You can read more at www.ocrf.org. George Hansen lives in the Kansas City area with wife Carol. His 4 daughters are all in the area: 2 are attorneys, 1 is a PhD, and 1 is completing her medical education. He writes: “This was a great year, as we became grandparents for the 1st time with 2 of our daughters having little boys. I sold my latest technology business to Google in Sept. I teach part-time at the U of KS, work in the mentoring program at the U of MO at KC, and actively and passively invest.” Stephen Holt reminded me that the late, lamented Doug Barrett captioned his yearbook pic with the Matthew Arnold line, “Journalism is literature in a hurry,” but neither he nor Doug could have foreseen the hurry-scurry of getting up by 5 am each day to post the latest tidbits for the 60,000 readers of Steve’s Kindle Nation Daily blog. “It’s an astonishingly great gig that allows me to help authors connect with readers in fun new ways, but that won’t keep me from whining about how it doesn’t leave me enough time for, well, literature…or for life, love, my kids, and my excellent grandson Callum.” Gary Hopson married Shelley Cabbell on 7/6/11.