stay connected... Baesweiler, Germany, for the year and worked at the Heilig-Geist Gymnasium. He is now studying economics at the University of Chicago. Finally, David Crane spent the spring biking a whopping 12,000 kilometers from Sudan to South Africa on the Tour D’Afrique to raise money for his project Biking for Nature. The money he raised was donated to Conservation International’s work preserving the world’s ecosystems. He also took some time to dive with great white sharks at Seal Island, South Africa, in May! David started his freshman year at Princeton in September.
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[Editor’s note: Class of 2014, please send your updates to your new class secretaries, listed above.]
FACULTY EMERITI Pat and George Edmonds 28 Samuel Way North Andover MA 01845 978-655-4598 gandped@comcast.net
On the Andover-blue morning of May 15, John Palfrey welcomed 34 faculty emeriti and spouses to Phelps House for the annual Emeriti Luncheon. After enjoying many years of hospitality from Phebe and Josh Miner and from Becky and Elwin Sykes, who hosted this spring event in, respectively, the Miner home on School Street and Davison House on campus, we all were delighted to be hosted by John in the head of school’s house. Phebe has told George Edmonds that she believes Marge and Ted Harrison started the Emeriti Luncheon in 1984, when Ted was retiring, and then passed the event to Phebe and Josh the next year, when Josh retired. John Palfrey, on his own as host since his wife, Catherine Carter, teaches in Cambridge, greeted everyone at the door. After lunch, he assembled us all in the Green Room for a welcoming speech,
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followed by a Q& A, which focused mostly on the recent campus issue concerning diversity and John’s response in The Phillipian. Among the first to arrive were the stalwarts from Middletown Springs, Vt., Sue and Bob Lloyd. Sue reported to Pat Edmonds her new career in “current history”—volunteering to record the minutes for local organizations like the town council and, more recently, the town conservation commission. Bob loves singing in the 10-person, five-part group he and Sue started in 1997, covering everything from 16th- and 17th-century music to “Stardust.” Not far behind, with big smiles, from Greensboro, Vt., came Cilla Bonney-Smith and Nat Smith. Cilla has been working her garden and was looking forward to the wedding season, when she designs flower arrangements. Nat began conversing with his former math colleague Doug Crabtree about Nat’s golf game and other weighty matters. As you may remember from our previous report, the Vermonters are really rocking (and not in chairs). Vic Henningsen ’69 has an ideal, stentorian voice for his periodic turns on Vermont Public Radio as a commentator on issues of interest, for example, Brown v. Board of Education. Susan McCaslin, from Vic’s and her new hometown of Thetford Center, is continuing her longtime social-service interest as a council member of the Vermont Women’s Fund, supporting the needs of women and girls to establish and strengthen various kinds of well-being. Emeriti travelers included Don and Betsy Abbott, who had enthusiastic reports about their winter trip to Guatemala, especially about the birding and the women’s woven handcrafts. In March, Don and Ursula Bade made a 4,000-mile car excursion throughout the South, to Florida and back. Alice and Steve Tung, during a spring trip in Hong Kong, found the prices high but the extremely efficient and extensive subway system a real bargain. Organists Carolyn and John Skelton were anticipating attending the 50th Haarlem Organ Festival in the Netherlands, followed by time in the Dordogne and Paris. Although Mark and Natalie Schorr ’62 love their new home in Watertown, Mass., with its neighborhood amenities and proximity to Boston, they have traveled twice to Denmark to visit Natalie’s family and to Hawaii for vacation. We were delighted to see both Wendy Richards, down from Exeter, N.H., and Peter Capra ’53, up from South Glastonbury, Conn., enjoying their many conversations with old friends. Penny Joel feels very fortunate to be able to spend precious time with her three nearby granddaughters. She also looks forward to summers at her place in the Thousand Islands and to her visitors there. Describing the challenges of having a house built on a difficult but beautiful 10 acres of land in Plainfield, in western Massachusetts, Steve Wicks emphasized his pleasure now in commuting for his studio work back and forth from
Holt Road. Meredith Price really has been keeping his mind active, having recently taken nine courses at Merrimack College and taught courses on Beacon Hill in Boston. Waterford, Maine, is a most intellectual town, claim Sally Holm and Kerry Johnson. After all, they live in a house formerly owned by Artemus Ward, in the town where Ralph Waldo Emerson’s three sisters lived—one of whom, Sally believes, is responsible for Emerson’s idea of transcendentalism. Continuing to battle his liver cancer, Hale Sturges said he still feels fine and is out and about, even walking over to Fenway Park for an occasional Red Sox game. Sylvia Thayer ’54 left her temporarily sick husband, Philip Zaeder, home while attending the luncheon. They have departed their winter home in Portsmouth, N.H., and moved out to their farm in nearby Milton, N.H. Hearty congratulations go to Susan Stott for winning the Fred Stott Advocate Award in recognition of her many years of leadership as the volunteer executive director of the Andover Community Trust, creating affordable housing for low-income families here in the town. Also to Eleanor Lyons for completing the Walk for Hunger for the 33rd time! Gail Boyajian has combined regaining her architect’s license, painting in oils, and riding her horse. In Boston, Laura Allis Richardson thrives in her studio and welcomes visitors to her website, laurarichardsonart.com, to view her abstract paintings. One of the last to leave, Aloysius “Lolo” Hobausz emphasized the importance of quality in the elements of everyday living and his longing for its improvement. Welcome to all of this year’s retiring faculty members, now new emeriti: Don Barry, Roxie Barry, Peter Drench, Chris Gurry ’66, Maggie Jackson, Doug Kuhlmann, and Tony Rotundo. Please note above our new address in North Andover, where we have moved to the Edgewood Retirement Community. We are generally aware that a significant number of emeriti are still teaching, and we would like to devote our next column to as many of them as possible. So, ongoing teachers: Please let us know who you are and what and where you are teaching.