stay connected... Carly ([son] Peter’s oldest), who is a junior at Montana State University. We will be 14 for Christmas, as [son] Roy and his family will spend it at their home in Utah and enjoy their skiing.” I hate to pass on the following: I have been your secretary since 1977 and have really enjoyed it. However, old age has crept up on me. I am not in the best of health. I wish you would get your heads together and come up with a new secretary. The time is coming close when I cannot do this anymore. I have not missed an issue. I would like that to continue. [Editor’s note: The Academy is grateful for Mary Lou Miller Hart’s long service. If any member of the Abbot Class of 1947 would like to take over the role of class secretary, please contact Laura MacHugh at lmachugh@andover.edu or 978-749-4289.]
working to promote early intervention...and also remodeling and enlarging his house. He has been more than assisted in this last activity by his patient wife. Fred also keeps busy staying in touch with his Japanese associates, connections made through a three-year-plus Navy billet at a supply base in Sasebo and a career of business consulting largely in Japan. We cannot stop the tolling bell. Alan Calnan has died in Brussels. Alan was a longtime resident of Brussels and was very active in the American Club as president and a board member for many years. He also served the Fulbright Commission as board chairman and member for many years. Also, we’ve received word that Bill Hickey of Hanover, N.H., died in April 2014. We extend condolences to their surviving families.
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Bob Lasley 1958 Cherryvale Court Toms River NJ 08755 ralasley@comcast.net
Always start on the high notes, which this time around are the financials of PA. The total endowment fund just broke through the billion-dollar mark (no, that’s not a misprint) and for fiscal 2014 reported a return of 16.8 percent. How many of us approached that? The fund includes 1947’s Reading Room Endowment, now at $162M, the Language Learning Center Fund, now at $1.144M, and the Reeves Hart Scholarship Fund, now at $419M. Of particular interest, I received copies of letters from two recipients (one from New York, the other from South Carolina) of support from the Hart Fund. If you ask, I’d be happy to send you copies of same. The first classmate to report in was Dave Adams, now back in Florida after a granddaughter’s wedding in the Adironacks. The groom was a brightly polished brand-new USMC lieutenant, who brought along his own honor guard armed with sabres, which created that wonderful scene of exiting the church under an arch of swords. This was followed by a dinner cruise on Lake Champlain. I then contacted John Addison, now retired in the San Francisco Bay Area after a remarkable and full-to-the-brim career teaching math (and logic) to those of UC Berkeley, with interruptions to teach at Michigan; in Warsaw, Poland; in Jerusalem; and at Oxford. He lost his wife of 58 years very recently but has four sons all in the Bay Area (and four grandchildren) to keep him hopping. Although at Andover only for the senior year, he reports having “very fond memories.” I then had a very interesting chat with Fred Fortmiller, who reported he’s doing almost nothing but is very busy, and then wowed me with the list: very active in the Harvard Alumni Association, conservation matters in Wellesley, Mass., and a child and family services group
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ABBOT Gene Young 30 Park Ave., Apt. 12C New York NY 10016 212-679-8931 panchogene@gmail.com
I’ve just finished watching The Girls of Abbot: A Memoir, a 40-minute documentary, and enjoyed it mightily. So will you. It was shown this past winter at various PA/Abbot gatherings, but if you’d like to watch it online, the link is http://bit.ly/1Af V8Xb. It’s probably safe to say that I am the only member of our class whose mother is still living. Well, she is, and my sister Shirley ’51, brotherin-law Oscar Tang ’56, and I threw her a 109th birthday party at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan, where Mom danced with Oscar in her high heels. Sad news of several Class of ’48 deaths has arrived. Mary Farrar Bonotto died in August 2014. A resident of Princeton, N.J., for most of her life, she was a writer, a teacher, and an enthusiastic skier. She leaves her husband, Sergio Bonotto, and two sons. Helen Taylor Dodd, who died in February 2014, was a member and past president of the Junior League and an active volunteer in her church and various charitable organizations. She leaves two children and two grandchildren. Eleanor “Muffy” Wallis Herkness passed away on Sept. 18, 2014. A generous patron of humanitarian and cultural projects, she helped found and for many years operated the Humane Society of Greenbrier County, W.Va., and also helped many people who were in need. She is survived by her husband, Wayne Herkness. Please, please send me some cheerful news in 2015!
PHILLIPS Robert Segal 118 Sutton Hill Road North Andover MA 01845 978-682-9317 robsegna@verizon.net
A letter arrived in October from Terry Buchanan to announce that he and wife Fran were on the move again. Along with a group from California made up of senior medical professionals, they were on an ocean cruise from Montreal to New York with stops in Quebec; Halifax; St. John; Bar Harbor, Maine (where he posted his letter); and Boston. In Terry’s eyes, the doctors were there to keep them “safe if we start to ‘sputter.’ ” The Buchanans planned to dine with Terry’s PA roommate Phil Buckner in New York and to take in some theatre and the sights. He enclosed photos of their attractive and athletic family and of some travel stops. He says, “We’re healthy, but a bit ‘creaky’ with arthritis aches. Medicare and Blue Cross still helping our ‘golden years.’ ” The Boston Group met for lunch in October and continued to a memorial service for Jim Stockwell at Carleton-Willard Village auditorium. The picture of Jim with his welcoming smile added resonance to the remarks of son William P. Stockwell, who said, “Jim was a gentle man in many ways and could, upon occasion, rise up like a squall moving north, dark and dangerous, out of Marblehead toward Cape Ann. He was a force to be reckoned with, not by intimidation or physical size, but by pure reason of resolve and judgment alone. His themes were excellence, hard work, accountability, trust, execution, forward thinking, integrity, and completion. He loved the extremely complex and adopted the simple pleasures of life and nature. His knowledge was vast on many subjects and his advice and opinion, from the trivial to groundbreaking technologies, were sought by many.” In his last days he blocked out his memorial service and chose the hymns that should be sung. He especially wanted “Angels We Have Heard on High.” When challenged because the song was a Christmas song, Jim waved off the objection, saying that it was his favorite. And we sang “Gloria in excelsis Deo”! I ran into Betty and Ed O’Connor, who were down from New Hampshire to lunch with their daughter. Signing off from my interruption of their meal, I suggested that Ed choose a date when we might have lunch and continued through the restaurant to join Andy Lorant for a bite and talk on aging. Ed e-mailed a few days later to set a date for the following week and say that his brother, as well as a fellow Ed knew in his early days of the brokerage business, would join us. It was a fun time. Ed is as sharp and witty as ever. A package arrived from Miami. It was a computer usage guidebook for which Ted Hudson had drawn cartoon illustrations to make any neophyte using the book feel at ease.