www.andover.edu/intouch consideration,” Lance notes. For 29 years, Lance served as headmaster of the Taft School, retiring in 2001. After a short pause, he went back to work, at a firm that manages endowments for charitable organizations. He also serves on several boards. “All this keeps me busy in the non sibi tradition,” Lance writes. “However, it no longer keeps the ravages of age at bay.” Bill Dial took his first golf lesson when he was 12, but it took him 59 more years to make a hole in one. Then, suddenly, he scored another one last year. “With this kind of luck, I figured I might as well buy some lottery tickets,” he writes, then adds, “In case Grabo [Keator] reads this, I haven’t hit a jackpot yet.” Happily retired from the practice of law, he derives great satisfaction from volunteer work with the Alternatives to Violence Project, training California prison inmates to handle conflicts in a nonviolent way. Bill says, “I am constantly amazed at the wisdom and humanity I find in men who have been incarcerated most of their adult lives but now want to change.” Elon Gilbert doesn’t jet around the developing world as much as he used to, but he’s still doing “a fair amount” of mentoring of young farmers in the U.S. and abroad as a volunteer in USAID’s Farmerto-Farmer program. He’s also been helping resolve longstanding and bitter disputes over water rights between homesteaders and Indian tribes on the Flathead Reservation in Montana. That, plus keeping up with four children and seven grandchildren, does fill up his day. Tom Bissinger has chronicled his unconventional career, at least the first half of it, in a memoir, The Fun House: Memory, Magic, and Mayhem. The publisher’s blurb describes it as a “rollicking tale of coming of age in the ’60s and ’70s.” It takes Tom from a San Francisco childhood to Bishop South and Stanford and on to Paris. He describes his theatre career in New York and Philadelphia, along with marches in Selma, love affairs and drugs, and life with Samoan families and in an aborigine settlement in Australia. The book ends in 1977 as he and wife Kristen and their 2-year-old come back from a Hindi retreat in Sri Lanka and settle down on a farm north of Philadelphia, where they still live. You can purchase The Fun House on Amazon, or send Tom (tombiss@gmail.com) $23 and you’ll get an autographed copy. By day Karl Milde is a patent lawyer in White Plains, N.Y., but in his off hours his imagination takes flight. He’s penned a series of children’s books (Jason and the Detectives) and three thrillers for grown-ups. The latest, The Road Ranger, features a trucker who is ambushed and left for dead after hauling a suspicious car to Niagara Falls. Rescued by a Canadian border guard, he feigns his own demise and sets out incognito to find his attacker. It’s also available on Amazon. “My big news is that a year ago, via Facebook, I reconnected with my high school sweetheart—and we’ve became engaged,” Bill Bayfield writes. “So, at age 75, we are planning a second marriage for both of us.” A Savannah resident and an ardent golfer,
Bill likes to mentor young players and officiate in tournaments. Bill Sterling underwent successful pituitary gland surgery. He planned to treat the weeks of his convalescence as a “reading vacation” of Old English classics. Before checking in at the hospital, he penned his customary class letter, which you’ll find on the class website (www.andover57.ning.com). Good luck, Bill. Or, as Beowulf might say, Éadig béo þu. —G
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Sandy Bensen Calhoun writes, “Sorry I missed reunion, but Bob and I were driving to Banff, Canada. We were blocked by floods from leaving to the south, but the 400-mile detour crossing and recrossing the Rockies was scenic.” She spent a week in March with Jane Christie in Hilton Head, S.C. She also keeps in touch with Joanne Shanklin via e-mail. And, directly from Joanne in Brazil: “My oldest granddaughter graduated from Wellesley in May. She’s now living in New York City and works in a bank. Her dad gave her an apartment in Soho, and now she’s spending some days in Aspen, Colo., with her mother and their whole family. My daughter just bought a small apartment in NYC also. All four of her girls want to go to college in the States, and the two oldest don’t want to come back to live in Brazil. My son and his family still live in Geneva and have been there for a while. They have a place up in the mountains where they all go skiing every weekend. I’m the only one still here in Rio. I really don’t like the snow and cold.” Susie Tidd Augenthaler received a card from Shirley Ritchie. Our former teacher doesn’t drive anymore but is hanging in there. Susie was also sorry to have missed reunion but had planned a family get-together far in advance. She is glad to be back in Florida after surviving an ice storm in Dallas, where she went to bed every night in flannel PJs, socks, and sweatshirt. She reminds us of a winter at Abbot when the temperature got to 20 degrees below zero for a week and we were allowed to wear ski clothes to class. When the temp got to zero, everyone started to take their coats off. Susie added, “Liz Artz Beim and I lived in Homestead that winter, and we put our rugs from the floor over us at night to keep warm.”
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Gil Bamford writes that his has become that rare three-generation family at Andover: His son Mark graduated in 1981, and grandson Zachary ’14 is currently doing a PG year at Andover. Zachary will attend the University of Chicago next year. Tom Gildehaus can also claim a multigenerational distinction, but more. His father-in-law Langdon Quimby ’32 and grandfather-in-law both went to Andover, as did three of Tom’s sons, Tom Jr. ’80, Charles ’82, and Chris ’84. Now Charles’s son Arthur is an upper, Class of 2015. [Editor’s note: The Academy has received word that Tom Gildehaus passed away on March 10, 2014, after the submission of these notes. Class secretary Dermod Sullivan sent an e-mail in March to his list of classmates concerning this sad news.] On Oct. 29, 2013, some 350 members of the Andover family came together at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, to celebrate the accomplishments of the Peabody Museum. The Peabody was on the verge of closure in 2002; now it serves as a vital educational resource at the Academy. This renaissance is importantly due to the unflagging financial support and buoyant encouragement of our own Marshall Cloyd. Marshall was celebrated in a tribute delivered by his daughter Trudi Cloyd ’03. The evening also honored David Hurst Thomas, curator of North American archaeology for the American Museum of Natural History, who sits on the Peabody Advisory Committee, and the late Linda S. Cordell, longtime member of the Peabody Advisory Committee. Among the attendees honoring Marshall were Head of School John Palfrey and Board of Trustees President Peter Currie ’74. Classmates present were Bruce Kaplan, Bill Stiles, Charlie Brennan and wife Rosemary, and of course Marshall Cloyd and wife Robin. Charlie Brennan described the evening as first class all around: beautiful surroundings complete with ceiling-suspended whale and jousting dinosaur skeletons; good food; and well-to-do well-wishers. It is my sad duty to report that retired United States ambassador John “Jack” Leonard of Bonita, Calif., died peacefully at home May 13, 2013, after battling lymphoma. [Editor’s note: His obituary appeared in the fall 2013 issue of the magazine.] After graduating from Harvard, Jack served in Army Military Intelligence in Korea and joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1965. Jack served with distinction in the U.S. Foreign Service for 34 years, notably in war-torn Nicaragua leading up to the 1990 elections there. He also served as ambassador to Suriname and as deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Andover | Spring 2014
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