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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
tassel from our Northfield graduation! • Anne Winter Forsyth and I 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
have had a relatively quiet period since the 50th reunion this past summer. So many of our classmates had a thoroughly wonderful time and shared a lot of time and stories with many of the folks from our class. • I saw Peter Ticconi, who was up in Boston on business for Georgia Tech. We had a great lunch and reflected on many of the wonderful memories he had of our 50th. Later in the fall, I had dinner with Matt Couzens, Jon Eager, Chris Parker, Peter Barber, and John Clark. It was a fascinating meal focused intensely around football and the undefeated season Mt. Hermon had 50 years ago. There was much discussion as to where some of our classmates were, and where John Clark is going. John is really quite an adventurer, and has walked and ridden all over the place, including Canada. He has another large (secret) adventure planned, which I hope to write about for the winter
The class of ’65 celebrates at last year’s reunion.
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. • One balmy September Saturday afternoon in Connecticut, I saw Nan Waite at our favorite dry cleaner in Old Greenwich. We sat outside on the steps for a while and reminisced about the 50th reunion. Nan writes, “The owner said we looked like a couple of little kids sitting there! I look back at it as a moment in time I want to remember.” Nan 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
Nan Waite ’65 was clown captain in Macy’s 2015 Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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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, talking, walking, and long lazy meals. In October, on a quick swing through Portland on our way to a vacation in Acadia National Park, Al and I stayed overnight with Dan and Elinor Livingston Redmond, and the next morning we had breakfast with Bevinn O’Brien, too (well, Al took a walk, leaving us three Northfield girls to gab). Then, while in the D.C. area to hear some music, Al and I had breakfast in Alexandria, Va., with Jacqua Hill Yeomans. Jacqua was one of my ‘housemates’ at reunion, thanks to the loving and generous friendship of Peter Weis, the NMH archivist, who gave me, Jacqua, Molly Hinchman, and Deborah Boldt his cozy, homey apartment in Northfield for reunion weekend. Meanwhile, I continue to work at my new music interest: collaboration with a D.C.-based poet, Bernardine Watson, with whom I’ve been close friends for 40 years. We’ve written, produced, and performed three shows of original poetry (hers) and a mix of original and interpreted songs (mine) in Philadelphia and D.C. For me, with decades of rock ‘n’ roll and country music under my belt, this new project is a big change. It’s by far the most personal, challenging, and deeply musical undertaking I’ve ever made.” They also had a performance for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at the Washington Ethical Society in January. • Special thanks to Dave Stone for compiling information on our class reunion gifts. Our five-year 50th reunion gift from 152 donors totaled more than $2,309,687, including outright gifts, pledges, and planned gifts. We also gave more than twice as much to the NMH Fund in 2015 as in 2014. As a special reunion project, our class raised funds to purchase 17 beautiful wooden doors for Memorial Chapel. • From Henri: We
2016 issue. I have heard from many of you, including Brad Fitzgerald, John Stinchfield, and Mark Boeing. I am about to move around the country extensively and hope to see some of you in the process.
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Northfield Mount Hermon Marilyn Attwater Grant classsecy1966@verizon.net • Frank Sapienza sapienzafc@cdm.com
From Frank: Hello, classmates! By now you should have received the fall 2015 50th reunion newsletter. The newsletter is a terrific summary of all the great events planned for our 50th. Barbara Hazard was awesome in getting this into print, and give a big hand for our reunion committee for all their contributions, particularly: Marilyn Attwater Grant, Jean Penney Wheeler, Suzanne Steenburg Hill, Constance Kane, Barbara Tweedle Freedman, Wil Everhart, Dave Edsall, Chris Taylor, Robert Bruce, and Jim Weiss. There are lots of fun events planned, so get psyched and come back for a great time. I have got to mention the reunion yearbook, also. Lots of work went into this, and it’s full of great life stories, remembrances, and personal accounts. You will truly want to read this. Thank Elsa Calderón, Lois Lake Church, Jennifer Stevens Dunmire, Day Merrill, Christine Anderson, Peter Fulton, and Frank Donnini for putting this together. • Many classmates have expressed gratitude for receiving the 1965 Christmas Vespers CD, which surely brings back fond memories. Heng-Pin Kiang has joined our class website and says he will be returning for our reunion. Heng-Pin lives with his wife, Shirley, in Seattle, Wash., and works as an international business advisor. • Frank Lihn has worked as a chef since the mid-1970s, mostly in New York City and California. He left New York to raise his two girls in California to be nearer their grandparents and the rest of the