CLASS NOTES
79 I In March 2018, Chuck Ausburn attended the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas and was able to catch up with classmate Jamie Tovar! Jamie, Chuck, and Chuck’s brother, Kevin, shared a great dinner together... John Robinson was coach and his daughter Anne (proposed Portsmouth Abbey Class of 2025) was the most valuable player in the recent Girls Provincial Hockey Championships in Toronto, Ontario, for ten and eleven-year olds. “Our girls took home gold, and it is no small achievement,” John says. Anne is also the niece of Joe Robinson ’74. Jon Gilloon’66 on his latest excursion to the Deep South – in his ’67 Splitty VW, Campmobile
Chuck Ausburn ’79 (left) and Jamie Tovar ’79 meet for lunch in Las Vegas
Worlds Within Worlds: A Father’s Poems and Prayers, a selection of poems by Jamie MacGuire ’70
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at the time of his passing (see In Memoriam, page 59)... Jamie MacGuire shared enjoyable meals with Bill Keogh ‘78 and Bill Brazell ‘86 in New York last spring and was delighted to introduce them to each other. He continued to lecture on his recent book, Real Lace Revisited (www.jamespmacguire. com) and in May, published a new selection of poems, Worlds Within Worlds: A Father’s Poems and Prayers (www.afatherspoemsandprayers.com). The book is dedicated to Jamie’s sons, Pierce ‘10 and Rhoads ‘13. Several of the poems are set at Portsmouth, and three are dedicated to its monks, Abbot Matthew Stark, Dom Paschal Scotti and the late Dom Edmund Adams.
81 I Andrew C. Hill just finished his 20th year as an administrator and teacher at Tampa Preparatory School where he had the pleasure of serving as director of admission, dean of students and, in more recent years as a full-time history teacher. As the school year ends, his wife, Mary Beth and he are trying to adjust to the wonderful (and sobering) fact that they will become grandparents this year and that even their youngest child will be a junior in college next fall. Time truly does march on. Andrew thinks of his years at the Abbey often and credits his time there for his unexpected but truly rewarding career trajectory. He sends his best to all from across the years.
82 I Tim Crowley and his son, Will ’20, shared some oysters post-varsity lacrosse game at the Abbey’s spring Parents’ Weekend with Abbey players Logan Kreinz ’18, Chris Franco ’19 and Foster Davis ’18.
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35th Reunion
Robert Quinn moved to Dallas late last year to run the Southern regional office for NYC based commercial real estate lender Silverpeak-Argentic. Affiliated with hedge fund operator Elliot Capital Management, Silverpeak-Argentic writes fixed and floating-rate mortgages, invests in mezza-
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