www.andover.edu/intouch He wrote a letter explaining my predicament, drove it to Percy’s house, and left it with his nonagenarian mother, who promised she’d leave it on his pillow. Around midnight my parents’ phone rang. My dad picked up and heard a familiar voice saying, ‘Hello, Alan. Chuck Percy here. I remember Ned very well. A fine young man. I’m sure I can help out. I’m having lunch with Hosni on Wednesday.’ As it happened, President Mubarak was visiting DC the following week, in part to ask the Foreign Relations Committee to remove the ‘strings’ attached to U.S. aid to Egypt. Of course, everything changed after that. It still took a few weeks to locate our film and arrange to bring a colonel from the Egyptian military intelligence back to New York with us to ‘observe’ the processing of our film, but I have no doubt that had I not been in Washington in 1972, I’d never have seen my film again.” See what the rest of you are missing? See? Ellen Hoitsma ’73 posted from Maryland, lamenting the physical detriment of excessive snow shoveling and wondering who remembered the snow-shoveling drills. I think we were ignorant of the child labor laws back then. Brooks Bloomfield posted (yes, yes, there) a great picture of him and Sandy Wood hiking in the Park City, UT, area. Mindy Feldman ’73 and May Irwin ’73 loved the pic. Soon after I submit these notes, John McDonald, Dave Swanson, Jim Hackett, Walter Bukawyn, Steve Rooney, and I will head up to Manchester, VT, for the (approximately) 20th anniversary of our annual golf outing. This year, instead of the grueling back-to-back golf upon one of the world’s finest, we will settle for a single round, and then some fly fishing or skeet shooting. Much food will be eaten and spirits consumed. We lost another classmate on Feb. 7, 2016, when Scott Midgley left us from his longtime home in Phoenix. Please feel free to use my e-mail address above and send me some news. I cannot report what I do not hear.
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Visit our “one-stop Web page” that consolidates all the various ways of connecting with Andover friends and classmates. At www.andover.edu/intouch, you can link to Alumni Directory, Andover’s Facebook page, Notable Alumni, and lots more. Of course, you can still update your records in the traditional ways: ● Visit
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1974 Jack Gray 80 Central Park West, Apt. 20F New York NY 10023-5215 212-496-1594 ray0x@hotmail.com
1975 Mari Wellin King 1884 Beans Bight Road N.E. Bainbridge Island WA 98110 206-842-1885 marjoriewk@gmail.com Roger L. Strong Jr. 6 Ridgeview Circle Armonk NY 10504 914-273-6710 strongjr@optonline.net Peter Wyman 963 Ponus Ridge Road New Canaan CT 06840 203-966-1074 peter.wyman@merrillcorp.com
At the height of pomp-and-circumstance season in the spring, a number of classmates reported with pride about the graduations of their offspring from institutions of higher learning. Steve Goldberg
wrote that his son, Jacob, earned a bachelor of science degree in applied mathematics, summa cum laude, from the State University of New York at Geneseo in May and planned to enter a PhD program at Johns Hopkins. Steve works in actuarial, reinsurance, and risk management consulting in Oceanside, NY. Geoff Richards enjoyed the soggy weekend of the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, where he celebrated the graduation of his daughter, Emily, from Loyola University Maryland. Paul Suslovic and Anne Atkinson ventured east from their home in Redwood City, CA, to see Paul’s younger son, Will, graduate from George Washington University in Washington, DC, where Will will be “doing neurological research—and getting paid for it,” according to Paul. Roger Strong’s daughter, Sarah, graduated from Yale with a bachelor of science degree in physics before beginning coursework for a master’s degree in food studies at New York University in the fall. The youngest son of Peter Cohan graduated from Northeastern University in May and moved to NYC to work for Goldman Sachs. Peter continues to teach strategy and entrepreneurship at Babson College, outside Boston. He appeared in We the People: The Market Basket Effect, which he describes as an “only-in-America documentary about employees and customers fighting a billiondollar company.” Real estate investor Mark Grange joined the commencement theme with the news that his son moved up from the eighth grade at Veritas Preparatory Academy. “It is the next best thing to Phillips Academy in Phoenix,” he Andover | Reunion 2016
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