Alumni News Summer 2012 Park Tudor School continued from page 29 subjects, and leavens that activity with concerts and lectures in New York and Washington and various programs at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C. He is also involved in developing several experimental arts projects. One supports the performance of Russian and other Romantic classical music in nontraditional venues by Russian-born artists, including a violinist with the National Symphony Orchestra. The second supports performances of Greek tragedies at outdoor spaces suitable for such events, including one near Middleburg. And the third will create studio space near Middleburg in which individuals interested in painting, drawing, sculpting, print-making, mixedmedia and other art can work under the supervision of experienced artists to develop their talents. Groves’s principal hobby is flying his 1979 single-engine Cessna from Winchester Regional Airport in Northern Virginia. In 2009, he made a weeklong round-trip solo flight to California, traversing the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico and the mountain and wilderness areas north of Los Angeles. He hopes one day to serve as a volunteer pilot in the Angel Flight program, which provides free air transportation to medical centers in Washington, Baltimore and other cities in the northeast corridor for low-income children and others needing specialized medical care that isn’t available in their own communities. Hurst married his Michigan law school classmate, Marilyn Woislaw, and is the father of two daughters, Jennifer Giangualano and Catherine Ramsdell. He has four grandchildren. In accepting the Distinguished Alumni Award, Groves said, “In the opening chapter of his book ‘The Power and the Glory,’ Graham Greene said, ‘There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.’ Park School produced that moment for me.”
Alumni take a look at school memorabilia during an Alumni Weekend tour of the Park Tudor Archives hosted by school archivist Tony Onstott.
Anu Gunale ’87, Nik Gunale ’96 and Swati Gunale ’91 caught up with retired history teacher David Kivela at the Alumni Weekend reception.
Hurst Groves ’59 (standing, center) and his guest Barbara Sharp (seated) talk with past honorees H. Roll McLaughlin (left) and Dick West ’42 (right).
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