stay connected... pathologist in Valparaiso, Ind. A memorial service was held in Montana this summer. In his report for his 50th reunion at Stanford, Maynard Toll wrote, “After years living and traveling in Asia and the Pacific, we are focusing on our recent travels in Europe. We visited France twice last year with friends (Champagne, Lorraine, Alsace in the spring, Brittany in the fall), and we spent some time in England and Wales earlier this year. We are into leisurely paced overseas trips these days, and not too many of them. There is too much fun stuff to do at home.” My wife, Maureen, and I had a grand spring and summer—celebrating our 30th anniversary— traveling to Guanajuato, Mexico (where daughter Rachel lives), Montana (hiking in Glacier, canoeing on the Missouri), LA (where we spent two great days with Donna and Jerry Secundy, getting an incredible set of tours of the city and of Pasadena), Maine, Cuba (fascinating, but there is ample evidence that two 55-year-old failed government policies—one theirs, one ours—have together severely damaged but not killed the spirit of that wonderful people), and Florida. I want to end with two love stories. In the late 1960s Susie Goodwillie ’59 met Bruce Stedman at the UN. In 1984, at a charity auction in Manhattan, Lee Webb met Judith Daniels. Susie and Bruce maintained a friendship for well over 25 years before they were married in 1993; they retired and moved to Maine, where Susie chaired the board of the Heartwood Regional Theater Company and Bruce developed Model UN programs across the state. Lee and Judith, who was the founding editor of Savvy magazine and the first woman editor of Life, were married a few months after they met, lived in Manhattan for 20 years before retiring in 2004, and moved to Maine, where Lee sits on a number of state and nonprofit boards and is a PhD student at the University of Maine. Judith chaired the board of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Bruce died quietly in his sleep in February; he was 92. Judith died after a brief illness of stomach cancer in September; she was 74. Both were wonderful.
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Lynne Furneaux Clark P.O. Box 1087 Manchester Center VT 05255-1087 802-362-1744 puffinplace@aol.com
Greetings from southern Vermont, where, at this writing, the colors are just starting to show. Paulette Dufault Peden writes that she and her husband, John, are fine. She still has her antiques business and John continues with photo assignments and videos. Her son Taylor and his partner, Jen Munkvold, are a photography team going under the name Peden + Munk and doing food
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photography for Bon Appétit magazine and Condé Nast Traveler, which just sent them to Copenhagen. Cally Sherman Williams reports that all is well in New Mexico. She and her husband took a wonderful spring trip starting in Prague, Czech Republic, and ending in Romania—some on their own and some not, including a week on a Viking cruise on the Danube. This is a fascinating part of the world that is still recovering from the Communist era. Cally says they met many nice people, heard lots of local music, and learned a bit of local history and culture. Joyce Matteis Wilson comments on having so many friends who are cancer survivors in recent years. Three of her friends who don’t know one another reacted the same way after completing chemo: They rushed out to buy vintage convertible sports cars. Sara Jasper Cook’s blood cancer (CLL) is in remission, meaning it is, for now, nowhere in sight. “It will be back,” she writes, “and probably sooner than I’d like, but for now everything’s great. [Husband] Fred retired this spring, and so we’ve been dividing our time and activities more evenly between the Adirondacks and Westchester County, mountains in one direction, lake in the other.” They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in September. Hannah Jopling has had her own encounters with illness and travel. As she and husband Bob arrived in London for a planned walking trip in Yorkshire last summer, Bob came down with a serious bacterial infection that put him in the hospital for two weeks, followed by four weeks of antibiotics. Kathy Stevens says she and husband Crowell have been very lucky in their life together during the past 25 years but are getting older. On the subway recently in New York, a man offered Kathy his seat. Kathy says, “I guess it shows that I turned 70 this year. Our days are filled with volunteering, grandparenting, health maintenance, and helping my mother (Abbot ’36).” Susan L. Koster advises us all to be thankful we live in beautiful places and to give back to our community. She writes, “We have time to talk, to read, to go to the beach, to enjoy our families and friends, to travel. Every day is new.” Anne Howson wrote that she and husband Jeffrey had a great trip to Patagonia in November 2012. One highlight was revisiting the small church in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where they were married in 1970. Another highlight was landing on Cape Horn amidst 35-knot winds in inflatable Zodiac boats. Dot Tod has been intimately involved in the creation of The Vermont Movie for the past seven years. At this writing, it was about to begin its statewide tour. It is a six-part collaborative documentary produced by several dozen Vermont filmmakers that explores the history and contemporary culture of the Green Mountain State. Despite the doctors controlling our lives, husband Dave and I got in two trips to our little lakeside cottage in Calabogie, Ontario, this past
summer. Many thanks to all who sent news—it’s such fun to hear from classmates who have been silent for a long time. Until next time. —Lynne
PHILLIPS Dick Bourne 1503 McDermott Road Pylesville MD 21132 410-836-1100 rbourne@ubalt.edu Class website: www.1960pa.com
I received a nice note from Ted Martin from his digs in New Orleans. Ted reports retiring from law practice and having the chance, after raising five children, to travel and devote more time to the New Orleans Opera Association, the Churchill Society of New Orleans, and sundry other “non-billable matters.” He and his wife were happy about the baptism of their eighth grandchild in August 2013. He reports having developed a conservative outlook, which led him to scold me for misusing the word “kudos” in one of my more recent reports. I gave the noun a plural treatment (as in “Kudos are in order for…”), when I should have recognized it as a singular Greek word meaning “praise.” He tried to apologize for being a pedant, but quite frankly, I appreciated the correction—and was amused at the vision of Alston “Hurdle Curdle” Chase’s belated delight at the kerfuffle his instruction a half century ago could give rise to. Jerry Wood sent me a newsy note in late August. Jerry spent most of the summer on Martha’s Vineyard with his “new lady love,” Catherine. Jerry has been working with his various artistic offspring to help him clear his house in Weston, Mass., of gigantic stacks of artwork dating from their middle school days. Catherine, a librarian, brings to their relationship great skill in “ruthless deaccessioning,” and Jerry reports he is beginning finally to be able to find his way ’round the premises at home. (I wonder if she would come to my house to provide much-needed assistance in “deaccessioning,” as I suspect I am a much worse pack rat than Jerry ever dreamed of being and sorely need the aid of someone with Catherine’s much-heralded skills and experience.) Got a newsy note from Laird Smith, who reports attending old PA roommate John Nields’s 50th wedding anniversary celebration. John joined his two daughters (both professional singers) in providing the assembled multitude a mini concert. Laird says he found the performance “astounding.… A guy who never was in a group at Andover or Yale who really might have kept the Limeliters going after Glenn Yarbrough left.” A number of other friends were there, including Bill Brown, who Laird reports was in fine fettle. From London, Karl Ziegler continues to pursue his lifelong passion for development and conservation in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Kenya. In August, he wrote a timely letter to the Financial Times pointing out risks associated with