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COURTESY TOM EGAN ’99
COURTESY HENRY WICKHAN ’99
COURTESY BILL GILBANE ’65
COURTESY GERRY CASSEDY ’57
CLASSNOTES
Jack ’58 and June Heffernan with Gerry ’57 and Kim Cassedy.
Bill Gilbane ’65, George Haley ’66, and Bob Constantine ’66.
Henry Wickham ’99 and wife Jonelle.
Mary Addison “Addie” Egan, daughter of Tom ’99 and Meghan Egan. Addie was born on August 16, 2015.
1959 This year Michael Koenig received the ASIS&T (The American Society for Information and Technology) Award of Merit, the organization’s highest honor. To qualify for the award, the candidate should have made noteworthy contributions to the field of information science, expressed new ideas, created new devices, or developed better techniques, made substantial research efforts that have led to further development of thought or devices or applications, provided outstanding service to the profession of information science, and, by successful efforts in the educational, social, or political processes affected the profession in positive ways. Bill Kupersmith recently blogged about his experience at Canterbury’s Centennial Reunion Weekend. The following are some excerpts from the blog entry titled A Condition of Belonging: Thoughts on a School
Centenary. “This is how historical change is supposed to work, it occurred to me; all good things from the past are preserved alongside the welcome improvements.” “What I’ve been reflecting on was how the kind of educational experience that I thought Canterbury offered differed from that of most schools, public and private, and that was that Canterbury provided not simply an education, but a formation.” “A formation comprises values, community, and ethos.” “At that moment as I listened to the headmaster speak, I knew that Canterbury is indeed the school that I had thought it was, and that I was being offered a great privilege in having this opportunity to continuing the School’s mission.” “We don’t pass through life like a train going along a track through different stations. More like the way a ship is built. When we are small children, our parents laid down our keels, but it was as teens that our hulls
were framed and planked. And Canterbury was a fine yard with excellent naval architects and skilled shipwrights so we could run straight and true.” 1966 Mike Taradash reports that he is retired from managing Barclays Wealth Business in Los Angeles. Prior to that he managed Lehman Brothers L.A. business. 1972 John Kiernan has been nominated as President of the New York City Bar Association. John, a partner at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimption, has been Co-Chair of the firm’s Litigation Department since 2002 and Chair of its Ethics Committee since 2004. His practice has included a wide range of commercial and quasi-commercial litigations, arbitration, risk analyses, and negotiations involving private disputes, governance, and fiduciary duties, intellectual property rights, class actions or other mass claims, and actions by and against government entities. “It is a great honor
to be nominated president of the New York City Bar Association,” said John. “As an active member throughout my career, I have witnessed and admired the City Bar’s capacity for positive impact on the justice system, on the legal profession, and on society in New York, nationally, and around the world.” 1993 Ebony Grisom was recently installed as resident pastor of the Warwick Central Baptist and First Baptist Church of East Greenwich, RI. 1995 Allyson Kane is now affiliated with William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty. She works from the Danbury, CT, office. “I am super excited to be located so close to home and right in the center of where my life is happening, not to mention being in the office that is number one in closed dollar volume in Greater Danbury, including Brookfield, Bethel, New