stay connected... Big thanks to Bill for this report. Other PA ’72 attendees included Bijan Amini, Jon Atwood, Doug Bigwood, Dan Burd, Rich Darner, Mark Gillespie, Richard Green, Nick Hadley, Clem Hearey, Chris Herzeca, Tony Hewett, Pete Klosowicz, Walter Maroney, Jim Mayock, and Louis Tenenbaum. They were joined by Abbot ’72ers Missy Baird, Nancy Pinks Bennett, and Amy Broaddus MacNelly, as well as Jeff Howard ’73. (See photo, page 85.) Much gratitude to Bruce for giving us yet another opportunity for some group fun. After the gathering, Chris Herzeca posted a sentiment on Facebook, no doubt shared by many: “What is it about our get-togethers? There is a certain ineffable aspect, a generosity of spirit, a seesaw of ‘I knew you’ but also ‘I want to know more, know now.’ Suspension of BS, though if it is funny, then keep it coming. Simple stuff, really, just us—warts and all. Love it.” Thanks, Chris. Beautifully said. Just two short years to our 45th. Hope to see everyone there.
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Jane Cashin Demers 43 Morton St. Andover MA 01810 978-470-1684 (home) 978-502-8733 (cell) jane.demers@gmail.com Noreen Markley 783 Wooddale Road Bloomfield Village MI 48301-2468 248-645-0536 noreenmarkley@aol.com Marcia B. McCabe 160 W. 62nd St., Apt. 10B New York NY 10023 917-796-1594 mbmg55@gmail.com
Sixtieth birthday greetings to the Class of 1973! By the time this issue of Andover magazine arrives most of us will have already or will be about to celebrate this milestone in our lives. However you chose to spend it, I [Marcia McCabe] hope you had a fabulous time! I attended two parties for Vicki Elicker Joh’s “big one.” She hosted a lovely lunch at her club in Village of Golf, Fla., and the week before, a surprise party was thrown for her by her family, so she had double the fun! She and I also spent a weekend at the Four Seasons in Miami, seeing Fleetwood Mac in concert and enjoying poolside cocktails and massages. Vicki was not able to attend, but Lori Goodman Seegers came to my soiree in Naples, Fla. It was held at my favorite restaurant, Bleu Provence, and although an unexpected blizzard on March 5 caused a few guests to miss it, it was
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magnifique! (I spent almost three months in Naples last winter, which was heavenly, too.) We celebrated Lori’s birthday seeing U2 in Chicago. She and I did a bunch of fun things last fall and winter. We saw the Eagles and Darleen Love in concert and watched several movies, including The Age of Adaline, about a woman who, after a car accident, stays 29 forever (every 60-year-old’s fantasy!). We also went to a John Palfrey event in NYC that was also attended by Anne Allen McGrath. One of Abbot’s most devoted alums passed away last winter, and I went to the service to pay my respects. Cynthia Eaton Bing ’61 was a wonderful leader and will be greatly missed. Mimi Kessler attended the spring Abbot Association dinner on campus in May. She, Leslie Hendrix, and Anne Spader Byerly were all there and had the chance to visit with Abbot’s last headmaster, Don Gordon ’52, who was a guest of honor. He and the gals had a great time, and he talked about how his years at Abbot and orchestration of the merger were the pinnacle of his career in academia. Mimi is semiretired and loves living with her two dogs in Durham, N.C. Leslie has been working tirelessly on the Abbot Archives project. With so much missing material, this important project is vital to keeping the history of Abbot alive. We all owe her a big thank-you! Thanks, too, to Connee Petty Young and Edie Wilson for organizing a mini reunion and 60th birthday bash in Healdsburg and Stinson Beach, Calif. I am writing these notes prior to the July festivities but will give a full report in the next column. Also in the planning stages is another gettogether in NYC the weekend of October 23. Lori Seegers is hosting a party on the 24th. The fun will begin at a bar on the 23rd and end with brunch on the 25th. Mimi Kessler is in charge of this, and you can e-mail her with any questions you may have: mimikessler1@gmail.com. Details can also be found on the Abbot Rabbit Facebook page. Please try to come if you can! Mindy Feldman organized a dinner at the Andover Inn on April 30. She was on campus for the kick-off of the Abbot engagement steering committee. After the meeting she, Noreen Markley Timm, Judith Webster, Aina Allen, Elizabeth Coward Miller, Dianne DeLucia, Jenifer McLean Cooke, Kristine Tomlinson, and Barbara Contarino Tomkins all got together to eat, drink, and be merry. Wishing you all a wonderful new decade, and I hope you make it to one of the special ’73 gatherings this year!
PHILLIPS Pete Morin 41 Border St. Scituate MA 02066 pbmorin@comcast.net www.facebook.com/pete.morin2
I am writing these notes three weeks after the deadline, with enduring faith that my unbroken string of reporting will not be ruined. This is the year most of us turn 60, and reports of wild affairs have popped up. Henry Mueller and his wife, Gerilyn, are doing the big celebration by traveling to Turkey. No more detail than that. Henry’s a man of few words (but more than most of you). I did mine with a blues jam at the House of Blues Foundation Room. Jim Hackett has been commuting for years from Wickford, R.I., to China, where he is involved in the mega-developments you read about. He got back in April from an architecture tour of Beijing. The class Facebook participants discovered that Mindy Feldman ’73 also went to Wharton and is involved in real estate in China. John McDonald is celebrating his 60th by buying a new boat, which he had planned to take through Lake Champlain, up the St. Lawrence River, through the Great Lakes, down the Mississippi to New Orleans, around the Keys, and up the Intracoastal Waterway. Technical difficulties demanded a change of plan. His crewmates, Dave Swanson and I, are awaiting our orders. Sometime. I hope everyone saw the great article in the spring issue of Andover about Jeff Howard’s involvement with the Civil Rights Museum. That is all this quarter. If you want to get, you gotta give.
1974 Jack Gray 80 Central Park West, Apt. 20F New York NY 10023-5215 212-496-1594 jackgray@BlueLink.Andover.edu
Last winter as my brother drove me and his family through the Massachusetts countryside, heading to their country place, we passed a woman and two young people walking in the opposite direction. A few seconds later, a spark of potential recognition ignited (this too is slowing with age), and I asked to reverse course. We pulled up just ahead of the walking party, and I leaned out the window to say hello to Katy Gass Walker. She introduced us to her daughter, the young woman’s beau, and two very large furry companions. Katy mentioned that the couple was visiting from Cambridge, where her daughter lived. The young man added that he lived there too. I asked if they were married, and they replied, a little sheepishly, that they weren’t.