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only going to get harder to keep up with, when, at the same time, this aging body would continue becoming less able than it was the year before.” So Mike sold out, just before tax day, and moved to Arrington, Tenn., a suburb of Nashville. He writes, “When I decided to get ‘vanity’ plates for my two vehicles when I registered them in Tennessee, I selected GATE 65 for one, to honor my graduation from Colgate University, and ANDOVER for the other.” That’s the spirit. Jim Sprague e-mailed that “Frank MacMurray and I went to a fancy dinner in honor of John Marks, as he prepared to reduce his DC presence at Search for Common Ground. David Kirk was supposed to attend but was stranded by tornadoes in Texas. Frank is still working on the fund for PA in honor of Ned Cabot. I am still running the de Beaumont Foundation but am looking forward to stepping down from the day-today activities of that.” From Hawaii comes word from Frank O’Brien, who writes, “I have lived in Hawaii since the Army brought me here, in 1971. I met my wife, Christine, here on a blind date. We married that year and recently celebrated our 42nd anniversary. Since getting out of the Army, in 1973, I have practiced law in Honolulu. In February 2014, I won a landmark case in the Hawaii Supreme Court relating to abused and neglected children. I started off filing suits against the state for injuries that children suffered at the hands of parents or foster parents, but after we settled one case against the state for around $5 million, I realized that hitting them for large settlements did not produce a corresponding change for the better within the system. After that, I went to work helping families and children within the system, on the theory that I would rather prevent kids from being hurt than sue the state for damages after they are injured. It has been very rewarding. Retirement is not something that I think about. I would have to say that I am more fearful of having to quit than I am of having to keep working. I still enjoy getting up in the morning and going to work. “Tom Stirling ’59 and I interview students from Hawaii who are applying to Andover. One of the first persons that I interviewed was a refugee from Laos. She was admitted to Andover on a full scholarship but did not even have the funds to purchase winter clothes. We got the alumni association here geared up and raised the money to send her off. She went through Andover, college, and medical school and is now practicing as an internist in Texas. When I see all the achievements and talent of the current applicants, I wonder how I ever got in. “From time to time in the class notes, I see notes from people who do not think fondly of their years at Andover. For myself, it did what preparatory schools are supposed to do: It prepared me for college. The transition to college life was easy and pleasant, and the years at college were four of the most exciting and fun years of my life. So I have a very fond place in my heart for the school and everything that it gave me.”
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Looking out over the Wiscasset, Maine, harbor after our annual lunch, Wells Walker echoed Frank’s last comment, saying, “I didn’t know so many people were unhappy at Andover.” Ah, forgive, forget. Marnie and I, on our way to celebrate our 48th anniversary with Ruth and Ed Quattlebaum ’60 (who got married the same day we did) on Cape Cod, had a pleasant lunch with Susan and Pierre LaTour in West Chatham, Mass. Pierre recalled, from his stint on the Andover faculty, playing golf with Deke, Ted Harrison, and Gray Baldwin. “They were pretty bad,” said Pierre. Feature that foursome.
place for long, but NYC is still our base, at least for now. I was an interpreter at the UN for 28 years and retired 10 years ago, then studied Arabic for five years, but now I’m back to athletics, swimming competitively and playing tennis less competitively. I still enjoy reading all the languages I’ve studied. Guy and I together have a total of six children; one died of heart disease at 13 months. We have three grandchildren, ages 8, 6, and 6 months. Two are in California and the youngest is in upstate New York. Hard to keep up with all that’s going on.” A happy, healthy, and active 2015 to all of you!
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The only news I have is the following update I received from Marcia Hill. She writes, “I am living in NYC with my husband, Guy Struve, and we go back and forth to the San Francisco Bay Area, where we bought a house a few years ago. We also have been traveling a great deal, so we’re never in one
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I want to congratulate Steve Abbot for receiving the United States Naval Academy Distinguished Graduate Award in 2014. He will never tell you anything about himself; I will not hesitate to do so now. After Annapolis, Steve was a Rhodes Scholar. He became a test pilot and later was the commanding officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt during Operation Desert Storm; he then became the commander of the Sixth Fleet. His last duty Andover | Winter 2015
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