Mary Schiavoni wrote that she and her husband bought a building for their Chewy Tubes business, and by the time you read this, they will probably have moved in. It was a nice surprise to hear from Margie Sater Lord, who wrote, “Now that I know there’s a new trend for our generation, I’m on board—I have ‘un-retired’! I got a last-minute call from a friend in need of a teacher and have reentered the classroom scene. I am four days into teaching a combined second and third grade and loving it. Not crazy about the one-hour commute each way, getting up at 5:30, but happy when I get there. The amazing thing is that I am teaching about one-tenth of a mile from the house I lived in as a baby and toddler. Talk about full circle! This is also the school I attended just pre-Abbot; surreal but kind of neat to be rounding things out this way. I’ve seen Margaret Gay twice this summer and loved catching up. Have a date with Betsy Hoover Sexton for Columbus Day weekend, so Abbot friends are top of my list. Love to all!” Jennifer Cecere wrote that she, Anne Dillard, and Wendy Ewald had a great mini reunion in NYC last July. Jennifer said that it was really great to be together again. If anyone is in Newport Beach, Calif., check out her sculpture at the Civic Center Park; it will be there through 2016. She will be giving a talk, date TBD. Go to http:// greenpublicart.com for more information. As for me, Gali Hagel and I have tried unsuccessfully to get together. We live just a little too far away from each other here in the San Francisco Bay Area to get together spur of the moment. I have been busy with my teaching (ballet, Pilates) and acting. Husband Stephen and I planned to head to Martha’s Vineyard at the end of September for his son’s wedding. It will be a nice time of year to be there. This past August we took a lovely road trip down the Oregon and California coasts for a week. I had never visited that area, and it was fun to travel with no exact plan as to where we would stop each night. We saw the big redwood parks, Crater Lake, etc. I became enamored of lighthouses, as we visited many beautiful ones on the way down. I can’t believe how much the northern California coast reminds me of Maine and New England. Which state in the country has the largest number of lighthouses? Michigan! A piece of trivia that we learned. Till next time!
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PHILLIPS Hugh Kelleher 12 Atwood St. Newburyport MA 01950 617-448-8073 hughkelleher1@gmail.com
Time to learn the Florida Gators fight song! That was the challenge Jeremy Bluhm faced when he was in, of all places, India, visiting a school for poor kids on the outskirts of Delhi. If the kids learned the Gators’ fight song, Florida alums would donate to the school. Mr. Bluhm to the rescue. He got the tune (via the Internet) and taught it to the kids. Video appeared on YouTube and at Gator football game. Funds raised. Kudos to Jeremy, who continues to be, one suspects, one of the few Jewish organists at a Catholic church in Australia. Nat Winship was married in early September to Hope Requardt in North Sandwich, N.H. Congrats, Nat and Hope! Facebook shows nice photos of the newlyweds and of family and friends at the big event. Thanks again to the wonders of the Internet, a number of our classmates, including Chuck Critchlow, Granger Benson, Charley Donovan, and others, have already sent Nat their best wishes via Facebook. Peter Gallett of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been in touch with the powers that be at Ye Olde PA to discuss a different sort of technology: solar thermal systems for heating and hot water. This is a very useful idea, and I pass along this little-appreciated fact: You get a much bigger bang for your investment buck with solar thermal (hot water) than with photovoltaic (electricity). It is much easier to use the sun to create hot water than to convert its energy to electricity. One of our class’s most creative craftsmen is Kevin Gardner of New Hampshire, author of The Granite Kiss and a stone-wall builder for nearly 40 years. He was recently in nearby Rowley, Mass., lecturing on the history of New England stone walls. Kevin’s book is really beautiful. There are few places more magnificent than the shores of Lake Champlain on a clear August evening. This summer I was up in Burlington for the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival and met up with Mark Snelling and Charlie Kittredge, who, Rob Reynolds reminded me, was the captain of our lacrosse team. After a fine meal in Burlington, we proceeded to Charlie’s boat for a sunset spin around the lake. Charlie is still commuting pretty regularly down to Crane & Co. in Western Mass., and Mark travels some to South America for his copper wire business. All agreed that work is nice, but boating on Lake Champlain is better. A recent article in the Boston Globe recollected Charlie’s mom, Marjorie Kittredge, who passed on at age 86 in 2010. She was the first to introduce equestrian therapy for emotionally and learning disabled kids. Windrush Farm in Boxford, said her obituary, was started with “three horses, five emotionally challenged/learning-disabled boys, and a handshake.” Today, it is a national model for innovative therapies.
Jim Shannon retired as head of the National Fire Protection Association. In what may be a first for our class, he had the honor of having a building named after him on the NFPA campus in Quincy, Mass. Jim did a genuinely fantastic job as head of NFPA and expects soon to be involved on a parttime basis in some international electrical code work. Jim is quite the hiker and spends a lot of time at the vacation home he and wife Silvia share near New Hampshire’s Presidential Range. This summer Jim and I went on a day hike in the White Mountains, and the mountaintop views were unbeatable. Fred Strebeigh was unable to make our June reunion for good reason: He was in Budapest with his partner, Yale English professor Linda Peterson. Fred, who continues to teach at Yale, seems to make good use of his summers. He recently spent one of them in Siberia, and many years ago, on the very weekend of our class’s 20th Reunion, he was one of the few American witnesses to the historic 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising. Speaking of history, Nate Cartmell, who is a veritable Wikipedia of lost and nearly lost information, was one day musing on various roles played by the actress Gloria Swanson. (Note to Nate: We are aware of your rates and hope this was not on billable time.) Nate came across the fact that her lead role in Sunset Boulevard was written by D.M. Marshman ’41, father of our classmate David Marshman. Mr. Marshman won an Oscar for his screenplay, sharing it with two others, including director Billy Wilder. Nate’s research spurred me to look up David. Again, the miracle of technology created a special opportunity. Within six minutes, David was located, and we were on the phone. There may be a lesson there: These days, if you want to find one of your old buddies, there’s a good chance you can do it. David and his wife, Sue, work for Coldwell Banker Real Estate in Venice, Fla., and he had some great recollections of his days in Will Hall, where once he traded rooms with Evan Thomas. (An informal archaeological expedition during our recent reunion confirmed that Will Hall can now be located only by its remaining foundation.) David stays in touch with Dave Sedgwick, a clinical psychologist in Charlottesville, Va. Dave has had a highly successful and useful career as a Jungian analyst. Check out his book, Introduction to Jungian Psychotherapy: The Therapeutic Relationship. David M. also stays in touch with John Clark and Joe McGhee. Joe was one of those among us who attended PA on a newsboy’s scholarship. He later went on to a career in diplomatic service. Last I heard from John, he was teaching and coaching in Connecticut. John was an amazing athlete, and knew how to play the beautiful game before most Americans could spell futbol. Perhaps John and Joe will be—or already are— among those retiring in the near years. It is a strange concept for so many of us who still have the souls of ’69 beating inside us. Whatever you are up to, send along your news—via whatever technology works for you.