stay connected... Socrates!’ extolling what these icons have taught us. It may have been the most upbeat class I have ever witnessed. What a performance!” Jesse Barbour sent a note about Peter’s death, saying he remembered him well and was saddened by his passing. He told the story, with an accompanying picture, of playing “Taps” over the grave of his first band director. “Oh, the memories,” he wrote. It’s true, and each loss hurts, but it’s reassuring to know that 77 percent of us are still kicking, investing energy in community service, learning, and enjoying our ever-evolving families. —Phil Hirsh
1957 ABBOT Anne Boswell 5 Choate Road Hanover NH 03755-1701 603-643-5043 aboswell@valley.net Lucinda “Lulu” Cutler 267 Legend Hill Road Madison CT 06443-1881 203-779-5859 lucindacutler@gmail.com
News from Libby Horan Edgerly: “Still living in Providence [R.I.], working mostly by remote in Boston. In 2013, I had the luxury of spending a half day with Louisa Birch in Boston and of a 24-hour visit from Jody Bush. In 2014, I am working half time and hope to do more visiting with friends. I’m also supposed to be weeding out my house, but when given the choice of friends or weeding, friends win out. “I am glad I had the opportunity to stay with my research through our latest acquisition (by MSCI in 2010) and experience the globalization of our company. The team members I work with are in Manila and now two more in Beijing, with only three of us in Boston. Most extraordinary. This has involved mostly e-mail, and a few teleconferences at 6:30 a.m. or sometimes 9 p.m., but I must admit that I have not made the 10 p.m. teleconferences.” News from Mimi Ganem Reeder: “As you know, I belong to HILR (the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement). I love the organization! It’s really a community, and opportunities abound— peer-led courses (the catalogue each semester is amazing), plays and musicals, guest speakers, research projects, and more. I’m also writing, mostly memoir, in a group from HILR. It’s an environment that celebrates learning, friendships, and creativity. It’s fun! Otherwise, I’m happily busy with my family. Children and grandchildren remain life’s prize.” News from Lynne McLaughlin Moughty: “Have no travel plan as yet for 2014, but last year was good on that score: San Francisco in May to celebrate my daughter-in-law’s graduation from divinity school (PSR in Berkeley), South Dakota and Wyoming tour in June, and three weeks in France
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in October. The last trip included a visit with my daughter Beth and family in Lyon, where they are spending a sabbatical year. Children (Nico, 12, and Marina, 9) are going to the public schools and getting pretty proficient in French. Beth and I had four wonderful days in Paris before we parted company and I embarked on an eight-day Rhone River cruise. Would like to get over to France again before they come home in July and am looking at another river trip or perhaps a walking tour. “Indoor winter activities here in Wolfeboro, N.H.: cribbage, puzzles (picture and crossword), table tennis and regular tennis and occasional horseback riding. Snowshoeing and x-c skiing are great fun when the weather cooperates. Will probably not do any more downhill skiing, though every time I’m up in North Conway I remember our senior trip to Cranmore and am tempted. Walking at the Brewster Academy indoor track with friends is another option to get out and work off those pounds that seem to accumulate in the winter. A weekly knitting group and singing in my church choir are other things I really enjoy.” News from Anne Boswell: “I am back from Hong Kong after a visit to see family. My oldest grandson in first year of med school. His younger sister eager to visit colleges. They and their parents took me with them to Kyoto and Hakaba, Japan. We stayed close to Mt. Fuji and skied in marvelous powder snow.” News from Josephine Bradley Bush: “The highlight of the past year was having one active and usually inattentive 15-year-old completely to ourselves in Italy for 10 days. Husband John and I lucked out and spent 90 minutes alone in the Uffizi with Duccio to Leonardo and 40 minutes with Michelangelo’s David at the Accademia; our granddaughter paid attention. We are living in New Haven, and John, now working for a nice young man who has bought his firm, will retire at 85, in two years. And then who knows? We are currently in Argentina, learning the tango and then going fishing in Patagonia. I love seeing Lulu [Cutler] and Dinah [Hallowell Barlow] from time to time. Dinah and I see Dede Michalopoulos up in North Haven, Maine, in the summer. She is Emily Meyer Michalopoulos’s lovely daughter, of whom Emily was very proud.” Sally Lawrence Kauder passed away on Nov. 14, 2013, of melanoma. Sally is survived by her two daughters, Nancy Kauder Schreiber of Baltimore and Carol Kauder of Boulder, Colo.; her grandchildren, Camilla and Sam Schreiber; and her brother, Wally Lawrence of New York City. I (Lulu) continue to love being with my family: seven grandchildren, ages 12 to 17. I continue to enjoy watercolor painting, bridge, and lay caring ministry and cancer support group at my church. I did not spend the entire winter in Vero Beach, Fla., but enjoyed being the Abbot host at a PA luncheon for local alumni in the Vero Beach area on Feb. 13 at the Riomar Country Club. Anne Boswell and I love receiving any news you may have to share. Cheers from both of us.
PHILLIPS Stephen C. Trivers 151 South Rose St., Suite 611 Kalamazoo MI 49007 269-385-2757 Stephen@StephenTrivers.com Gregory Wierzynski 4426 Klingle St., NW Washington DC 20016 202-686-9104 gregor@wierzynski.com Class website: www.andover57.ning.com
In what, alas, is a familiar plaint for many of us nowadays, Leo Ullman writes that he and wife Kay “have been confronted and ‘dissed’ mercilessly by our kids and grandkids that we are no longer ‘with it.’ ” Leo’s response was an amusing New Year’s letter in which he pledged, among other resolutions, no longer to use correct grammar, full sentences, or complete words (“U will C, how gr8 it will B”); get rid of picture albums and store photos and memories in a cloud; eat only food free of gluten, hormones, fat, salt, minerals, and artificial coloring; forswear libido-enhancing drugs for fear of undue excitement lasting more than four hours; pay bills with bitcoins; and stop reading books and newspapers in hard copy. “2 U all,” Leo concluded, “we extend LOL & hope U’l have a 1derful NU Yr.” On a more serious note, Leo reports that he cosponsored an exhibit on the evils of Nazi propaganda that drew a record 1.6 million visitors to DC’s United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In their holidays note, Phil Olsson and wife Diane speak of a roller-coaster 2013. The year started on a high: Son-in-law Andrew Bujalski’s documentary, Computer Chess, took a top prize at the Sundance Film Festival. But no sooner had they finished celebrating than Phil took a bad spill on the ski slopes, requiring a pin-and-screws repair job on his hip, followed by a total replacement a few months later. That wasn’t the end of it. While recovering from the operation, Phil tripped on his patio and broke his femur. On the good-news side, Phil and Diane gave away a daughter in marriage, and she soon provided them with their second grandchild. Their son tied the knot as well. John McConnell and his wife, Diana, sold their Wilton, Conn., home of 18 years and moved to a condo in Heritage Village, a retirement community in nearby Southbury. John is an active member of the American Legion and a stalwart in the woodworking shop. Ever the dedicated sailor, he’s working on a radio-controlled model boat for racing on local ponds. Patsy and Lance Odden celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by taking their son and daughter, their children’s spouses, and their four young grandchildren to Costa Rica. After a week of surfing, zip-lining, and monkey watching, their 5-year-old grandson toasted them by saying that they should make it an annual event. “An exhausting