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FACULTY EMERITI Pat and George Edmonds 28 Samuel Way North Andover MA 01845 978-655-4598 gandped@comcast.net
At the Main Street CVS in Andover, George Edmonds was delighted to bump into Doug and Shane Crabtree and to learn that Shane is exhibiting her acrylic paintings at Merrimack College and Doug is working part time for a local financial planner, paying special attention to the mathematics of medical insurance. Recent retiree Tom McGraw writes about going in late summer to stay at Keuka Lake in upstate New York at the home of his former student Ben Schwall ’85; he also planned to travel to Ireland in the near future. Just a few weeks before Jean St. Pierre passed away in Harwichport, Tom and wife Celeste visited her and found her looking “alert and well.” Hired by Jean in 1983, Tom became her neighbor, teaching in adjoining rooms in Bulfinch Hall and living near her on Stonehedge Lane. Deeply saddened by her passing, Tom writes, “Jean was very much the spiritual godmother of our little family, leaving Easter candy in baskets on the back steps of Hearsey House and hosting Christmastree-trimming parties in her home every year. We shall not see her like again. She cared deeply about great teaching and the welfare of her colleagues and students.” From Chestertown, MD, Elisabeth Tully reports that in her retirement she is still pedaling, having taken a bicycle trip in Albania. (In the past, she biked twice across America.) At nearby Washington College, she is taking a course linked to the class’s trip to Cuba and is also “restoring” the Spanish she used long ago during her two years with the Peace Corps in Colombia. Elisabeth has four children and 11 grandchildren, three of whom live just two blocks from her. Steve and Adele Carter are settling comfortably, after some recent renovations, into the house they bought some years ago in Rye, NH. As a native of Rye, Steve says that the town he always liked hasn’t really changed all that much. Adele retired before Steve did, about three years ago, from her position as director of the nearby Middleton Public Library. Right after Steve’s recent retirement, they took a French cruise trip from Lyon to Provence. Their son, Steve ’96, is an assistant professor of literature at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, and their daughter, Emily ’00, a familypractice medical doctor, is in Houston, taking courses in geriatric medicine. Other recent retirees—Seth Bardo, Kathy Dalton, Marc Koolen, and Chris Walter— have described their retirement plans in the summer 2016 issue of Andover magazine. Over the phone, in his warm, unmistakable
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voice, Kelly Wise explained that he is now living at Waterstone, a senior living community in Wellesley Hills, MA, where he enjoys many amenities like meals, yoga, swimming, and visits from Bostonarea writers reading from their works. He himself reads two or three books a week and currently recommends The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. Warren and Pat Gerety moved to Fremont, NH, four years ago. Although Warren is still working, together they volunteer in the library of their condo association. They are proud of their three grandchildren now in college at Bowdoin, the University of Albany, and the University of New Hampshire. In their Chatham, MA, community, Lynn and Sally Herbst are variously active. Sally is a founder and president of the League Club of Cape Cod, providing social services for the Cape women and children. A Massachusetts master gardener, Sally also makes the famed Nantucket baskets as a hobby, even turning one into a lamp. Lynn sings in his church choir and in the Chatham Chorale, for which he also has arranged three classical concerts around the Cape, and he serves on the learning committee of the local library. They see two of their grandchildren regularly in nearby Harwich. Their other three, however, live in San Antonio. David and Rachel Penner have taken on new volunteer vocations here at the Edgewood Retirement Community as retailers. David is responsible for buying the supplies for the community convenience store, usually by driving to the
local supermarket. He recently voiced his satisfaction when two new products he had stocked sold out immediately. Over the past few years, David also has been tutoring in schools in Methuen and Lawrence and privately in Andover. Rachel started up the Treasure Cove, which sells resident-donated items ranging from jewelry (the big seller) to furniture. Most of the proceeds from these two stores go toward college and training scholarships for young Edgewood staff members. Rachel worked in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library at PA for many years, and she has been sharing some of her intellectual interests with her many friends in the community’s lifelong learning program, freed in her retirement to do something she had never anticipated. Her first course focused on WWI as a worldwide war, involving battles in the European colonies as well as in Europe. Next was a course on film noir, followed by another course on films by Alfred Hitchcock. Her fourth course is Majesty, Murder, Mayhem, and Madness: The Plantagenet Dynasty of England, involving the lives and deeds of the 14 monarchs and their subsequent portrayal in literature. We would like to take a moment here to pay tribute to two outstanding Abbot Academy faculty members, both recently deceased, who joined the Phillips Academy faculty in 1973 and, in their own special ways, succeeded in offering Abbot traditions that then enhanced the Andover experience for students and faculty—Jean St. Pierre and Shirley Ritchie.
1. Georgina Norton ’09 (third from left) married Trevor Middleton in July; the ceremony was held in Cochran Chapel on the PA campus. Classmates Aubrey Zimmerling, Alli Lyons, and Stephanie Moroney joined in the festivities. 2. William ’50 and Prudence Crozier were on campus in November for the Phillips Academy Chamber Music Society concert, which is supported by the William M. Crozier ’50 and Prudence S. Crozier Fund for Chamber Music. From left are Director of Performance Holly Barnes, Chloe Lee ’17, William Wang ’17, Yuji Chan ’18, Aditi Kannan ’18, Claire Lee ’17, and the Croziers. 3. Jackson Hole, WY, was the setting for a summer get-together for Class of ’56 alumnae Ellen Welles Linn, Louise Day Cook, and Anne Woolverton Oswald. 4. Several Andover friends made the trip to Montana for the wedding of Michael Spiak ’06 and Margaret Owen. From left are former PA dean of faculty Temba Maqubela and wife Vuvu, TJ Thompson ’06, Mary Buttrick Burnham ’78, Alex Clifford ’07, bride Margaret Owen, Ben Weiner ’06, groom Michael Spiak ’06, Sam Hall ’06, Pumi Maqubela ’06, Kristin Spiak ’08, and Jon Hillman ’05.
5. Five members of the Abbot Class of ’53 met in Maine for a September mini reunion. From left are Cornelia Nyce Kittredge, Pam Bushnell Ellis, Pat Eveleth Buchanan, Anne Oliver Jackson, and Betsy Hitzrot Evans. 6. Head of School John Palfrey and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Jim Ventre met with Dave Goetsch ’88 (center) on the Burbank, CA, set of the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory, where Goetsch works as a producer and writer. Andover | Winter 2017
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