CLASS NOTES in the home they built in Calais, Vt., 35 years ago. They spend time in the summer at their cottage 10 miles away, and in February escape to Amelia Island, Fla. Melinde has a web business designing dance and skating costumes, while Jack does residential appraisals and housing development. They visit their daughters in Santa Monica, Calif., and Washington, D.C., as often as they can. Melinde would love to hear from NMH friends. • Patricia Watson Bartlett and husband John continue to travel back and forth to Moshi, Tanzania, to work with a project linking Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center and Duke University. Trish is in charge of linking the community to the HIV research efforts in the form of a community advisory board. Two years ago, she facilitated a youth community advisory board, so that they could talk about issues that seemed more pertinent to them. Trish and John have two granddaughters and enjoy coming home to see them and spending time at their cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. • Debby Buhrman Topliff has been working to put her various projects into finished form. Last January, she published a book about her process of visual Bible study, And the Word Became Color. She’s also busy getting three novels into final form. The first one, Hiding, is ready and she hopes to finish revising the others soon. All are self-published through Amazon. She’s also looking for a publisher for Squirrel Tales, a children’s story. Debby has been calling classmates from Marquand to encourage them to come back for our 50th reunion, and has gotten positive responses from Faris Bennett and Beth Gordett who, in turn, have encouraged Anne Shafmaster and Helen Drew Stowe to attend. • Alex Ives is doing a bit more traveling than he has in recent years. His journeys have included festive weekends in Ann Arbor, Mich., time along the Atlantic at Topsail Beach, N.C., with family, and even more family time in Anacortes, Wash. • No more full-time teaching for Laura Thompson. She’s semiretired at last, but continuing with her part-time job pouring wine in the tasting room of a local vineyard. She also substitute teaches in her local school, working with small children rather than high school students with special needs. Laura is happy to have traded her previous 60-minute commute for a seven-minute one, and the option of saying, “sorry, not today!” She’s working on long-neglected projects such as de-cluttering her house and taming her yard. • Les Petrovics Ofner got a job in distant work as a neuropsychologist researching Alzheimer’s. This will probably allow him to make the trip for our reunion and to share info on new meds with classmates who are interested. His son, Daniel, graduated from University of Groningen in Holland, and traveled in Asia after his semester abroad in South Korea before applying for grad school in sustained development. • Will Eddy says he’s retired, but
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you can still occasionally see his face on a TV commercial. He and his wife, Anne Nathans, have been doing quite a bit of traveling and enjoying some of the world’s great variety of food and wine. • Meanwhile, Peter Savas was giving some of his wine away. Peter donated approximately 1,080 bottles of vintage American, French, Spanish, Italian, and Australian wines from his wine cellar to be used for special events or selectively auctioned. We can only hope there will be some left for us to enjoy at reunion, although Peter reports the oldest wines are from the 1970s; nothing from 1967. • We now have an official date for our 50th reunion. It’s Thursday, June 1, through Sunday, June 4, 2017. Classmates who have said they plan to attend or are giving it serious consideration include: Will Ackerman, Kurt Adams, George Alexander, Tracy Ambler, Mollie Lininger Alkan, Jim Archibald, Daniel Atlan, Sylvia Kuhner Baer, Jim Baldwin, Carol Ball, Anne Haigis Banash, Joel Bartlett, Patricia Watson Bartlett, Janet Atlan Blair, Mary Briggs, Cindy Bruins, Gretchen Reed Burnham, Bruce Burnside, Kori Hedman Calvert, Eliza Childs, George Christodoulo, Wendy Alderman Cohen, Chris Crosby, Nancy Crothers, Tina Dobsevage, Donna Eaton Mahoney, Bonnie Parmenter Fleming, Helen Fowler, Jay Garbose, Dana Gordon, Tom Hanna, Gene Harmon, Jill Heathman, Nancy Hemmerly, Willy Hermann, Bill Hicks, Peter Higgins, Pam Crawford, Linda Hoff-Irwin, Alex Ives, Bill Johnson, Holly Taggart Joseph, Dave Keene, Becky Parfitt Kennedy, Vin Kennedy, Lorry Gresham Kenton, Jean McBean Koenig, Kit Williams Krents, Maddi Lenagh, Ross Mason, Margaret Maxwell McLaughlin, Will Melton, Marlee Meriwether, Tom Myers, Max Millard, Claudia Stanley Moose, Sheila Morse, John Mudge, Laurie Norton, Lissa Perrin, Robin Whyte Reisman, Martha Ratcliff Rix, Peter Savas, Samantha Schreiber, Irma-Riitta Simonsuuri Jarvinen, Jim Smolen, Chuck Streeter, Wendy Syer, Laura Thompson,
Debby Buhrman Topliff, Bob Turner, Nancy Dodd Uhl, Jean Walker, Skip Walker, Brad Waterman, Charlie Watt, and Anne Barrus Zeller. If your name is not yet on the list, we
hope you’ll let us know to add it. • Many of the above-listed classmates are among more than 120 members of our class Facebook page. If you’re on Facebook and not already a member, you can join by going to facebook. com/groups/nmh1967 and requesting membership. You can also keep up with the class at our website, nmh1967.com. Please add yourself to our interactive map: zeemaps. com/map?group=1410259. If you have more than one residence, add them all. • Don’t forget to fill out and send back your reunion yearbook questionnaires. If you’re interested in working on any aspect of reunion planning and execution, don’t hesitate to volunteer.
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Northfield Mount Hermon Kris Alexander Eschauzier pkeschauz@maine.rr.com • Peter L. Eschauzier pkeschauz@maine.rr.com • Mark G. Auerbach mgauerbach@gmail.com
A group of NMH ’68 classmates gathered on Cape Cod for their annual summer reunion. In attendance were Nancy Alexander Randall, Kathy Knapp Marn, Marion McCollom Hampton, Betsy Brunner Lathrop, Judy Molesworth Darnell, and Richard Costello (Wendy Wade Costello’s husband) and his friend, Anne Marie Doherty. • Karen and Bill Newman hosted the annual D.C. ’68 dinner last September. Joining them were Scott Byers, Steve Cone and friend Laura, Denise and Fred Cook, Deborah Sliz and husband Alan Yandow, Pam Beam, Ed Cook, Don Stanton, Rafe Sagalyn, Jeff Sliz and wife Maria Beach, Henry and Alison Ely Barschdorf, Marjorie Swett, and Tempe and Jon Ives. Bill writes, “Last summer Karen and I went out on the Haberlands’ boat in Muscongus Sound, Maine, and then had a
The Washington NMH ’68 reunion party at Bill and Karen Newman’s home