CLASS NOTES from a long and difficult year. I flew to Nice and stayed in Venice, where I met up with Weezie Cole Nicollet ’62 and her husband, Jean Claude, and Jonathan Cole and his longtime friend, Pablo. Weezie is as warm, gracious, and beautiful as she was as our freshman dorm ‘cop’ years ago, and Jonathan is a man of many interests and abilities. Weezie brought her Northfield yearbook and we reminisced about the people we knew while at Northfield/Mt. Hermon. Have been corresponding with my Center Gould roommate, Pat Ciriello Mould, and Alison Marshall Zanetos this past year — I’m thrilled to have re-connected with them. Hope to see Pam Street Walton ’64 this summer in New Hampshire, as well as Molly Hinchman and Beth Zelnick Palubinsky if they find themselves in the Little Compton area. My brother is taking me to Dillon, Mont., this August. Life is good!” • Ellen Lougee Simmons says, “All is well in the Simmons family. My daughter Winifred married in July to a great fellow from Houston, so four of the girls are married.” Ellen is the proud grandmother of Harris (4) and Ellie and Hallie (both 2). “I spend a lot of time in San Francisco, but Houston is still home, with summers in Maine. I am still thinking back to what a wonderful 50th reunion we had last summer and want to congratulate our classmates who worked so hard on it, as well as the school. It could not have been better!” • Alison Marshall Zanetos wrote, “I so enjoyed the 50th anniversary book. What a fabulous job you all did gathering all the info on us! An impressive publication! As is NMH Magazine. • Joan Milne Bischoff wrote, “Summer is here, houseguests abound, and we are off to the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, S.C., this weekend. We were delighted to see our dear friends James and Cynthia Gilbert-Marlow, who stopped in to visit us in March. Raymond and I became first-time grandparents: Oliver was born in January to our son Adrian and wife Margaret, and he is simply the cutest little chap. Fortunately, they live in Chapel Hill, so they are just over two hours away. On the travel front, Raymond and I had another wonderful trip to South Africa in February. Saw a lot of friends there and had some fantastic game experiences. We welcome any of my Northfield classmates who may be passing through the Charlotte area. • From heather Ross (who prefers to spell her name with a small “h”), “I think of Northfield and all our gang often and wish I was closer for more contact. I have finally retired from one of my jobs as school secretary but still carry on with the paramedic thing. I still live in the mountains in beautiful Bella Coola, British Columbia, still active in the church, still active with the arts council and with our riding club, which puts on a rodeo every year.” • Ann Steiner Clough enjoyed being back on campus in June for her husband’s 50th reunion. During the weekend, Ann enjoyed seeing
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volunteers Sally Atwood Hamilton (though only from a distance) and Dave Stone, and re-connecting with East Hall friends Mary-Jane Atwater ’66, Sue Dazé Kenny ’66, and Angie Howard Clark ’66. • Hermione Symington Ainley writes, “Still here, much as usual, and would love to see anyone who needs a break from all the ‘Trumpeting.’ Politics here is equally barking, but they say a change is as good as a rest.” • “My biggest news is that I have a website for my artist side: tanyatrinkausglass.com,” says Tanya Trinkaus Glass. “Other than that, I continue to live in Naples, Fla., paint, and garden. You just get used to it. The 50th was fun, even though I didn’t get enough time to visit and catch up. It was just so good to be around everyone from years past.” • Thank you to all who have sent news and photos. If your email address or other contact information has recently changed, don’t forget to let NMH and/or me know so that we can update our records and continue to stay in touch! • From Henri: Our class has been rather busy interacting with each other since our glorious 50th reunion. We had the great gathering on the Outer Banks, N.C., during October 2015 of Bethune, McLaughlin, and Holmes. Sounds like a litigation firm. After kayaking and sampling the culinary pleasures and wild nightlife of Edenton, N.C., they went out to the Outer Banks for an afternoon of frolicking in the sun. A splendid time was had by all. • Heading north into Canada, a number of our classmates (Ticconi, Barber, Boeing, Stinchfield, Clark, and Bob Van Wyck) had a great time with a mild form of Deliverance. They all wore suspenders that doubled as measuring tapes in order to gauge the size of the fish they were hoping to catch. • Gary Bartman writes that he is on the cusp of retirement, but that it is really about switching gears. He had a great time at the reunion! • Dave Stone has recently delved into genealogy. He has a number of family branches. • Christopher Parker visited with the revered “CWB” (Carroll W. Bailey and his wife, Elaine) in Andover, Mass. They are positive and fun as one would expect them to be. • Tom Lemire was recently inducted into the Beverly (Mass.) High School Sports Hall
A Mt. Hermon ’65 fishing mini-reunion brings together (front row, l-r) Peter Barber, John Clark; (back row, l-r) Mark Boeing, Peter Ticconi, John Stinchfield, and Bob Van Wyck.
of Fame. His outdoor hurdle time of 14.6 seconds still remains unbeaten after 51 years. Rather impressive and worthy of note. • Dudley Rose will retire from his active UCC ministry in June of this year, but will continue on as associate dean at Harvard Divinity School. • Erik Carlson has settled back into retirement mode following the reunion. He plans to run in the Pie Race this fall. He is struggling with the thought that he has a 40-year-old son. • Tom Robinson-Cox has had many adventures on the high seas. He is now “moored” peacefully at home in Gloucester, Mass., where he manages a cooperative art gallery: Gallery 53. Stop in if you are in the neighborhood. • John Cushing spends time in New England in the summer and loves getting back to the rolling hills and farmlands of Gill. And did those feet in ancient times! He is also recently married. • And finally, while recently in Denver, I had a great lunch with David Pessel. We spent a lot of time discussing our wanderings around the world. David started in Manhattan, went to Caracas, then to Mt. Hermon, and on and on. He has had a distinguished career in the high-tech and computer space and currently resides in both Denver and Breckenridge. We’re going to reprise this next year when I head out to Denver again. • [Editor’s note: The following is text that had been inadvertently omitted from the 1965 class notes column in the spring 2016 issue of NMH Magazine. NMH apologizes for this printing error.] • Sally Atwood Hamilton wrote, “In September, Mark and I had lunch in Portland with Charlotte Lucas Small and a mutual friend, Della, from Kittery Point, Maine. At reunion, we discovered that Char and Della are longtime friends. Della goes to Florida in the winter and was in our church there. We sang with her in the choir — Della and I held up the alto section. Small world.” • Susan Brunnckow Oke had a great trip to England and Scotland in October, including visits with son Wes and his family, who are living in England for a few years. She notes that her two granddaughters have acquired wonderful British accents. Susan enjoys reading news of Northfield friends who post on Facebook. • Nan Waite was a clown captain again (12th year!) in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, costumed as a graduating senior. With special permission from Macy’s, Nan added to the mortarboard her brown and gold tassel from our Northfield graduation! • Anne Winter Forsyth and I (Wendy Swanson-Avirgan) had planned to meet for lunch and visit in Stamford in October, but between a bout of bronchitis (me) and knee surgery (Anne), we had to postpone. Hoping to reschedule soon. • From Beth Zelnick Palubinsky: “Last summer, I had breakfast one day with Elena Berg Zimmerman, who lives merely blocks away from Al and me here in West Philly, but whom I have hardly seen in years. Later in the summer, William Stearns came to visit us, and we had a rollicking fine few days of sightseeing,