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Bill Crimmins ‘48 is joined by Katherine Crimmins Wu, Abbot Caedmon Holmes, and Mark Malkovich P’78, ‘79, ‘85 to celebrate Bill’s 80th birthday
Dom Christopher Davis ’48 enjoys a ride in the “burgee mobile” with IV Form student Jeff Salvatore
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‘39 Heidi Cuddihy sent a letter on behalf of her husband: “Greetings to all from John Murray (Jack) Cuddihy. Portsmouth remains his love. An anecdote: A trip to the Southampton emergency room last week (because of a fall and broken collar bone) brought to mind one of Jack’s tales of Portsmouth – his trip to the emergency room in Newport. He used to tell this to our children with great flourish, reenactments and sound effects: ‘Bedtime. In the dorm bathroom brushing teeth, etc. Floor wet from splashes. Boys in pajamas. Jack and Bobby Ridder ’36 arm wrestling. Slipped and fell. Jack’s right leg is broken! School Nurse Miss Mulrennen attends. Calls ambulance, which comes. Jack and Miss Mulrennen are packed into the ambulance and ride through the night to Newport Hospital. Stars are out, they’re speeding and careening. Siren is on. Problem and delay getting permission to operate, as Jack’s parents are on a cruise in Guatemala. Family friend gives okay and leg is wrapped in cast. …followed by several dull weeks recuperating in hospital.’ He remembers little about that phase except that his roommate was an ‘old man’.”
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The Portsmouth Review is now available in our Bookstore, or visit the Portsmouth Institute Website for ordering information. www.portsmouthinstitute.org
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In June, Bishop William J. McCormack celebrated the 50th year of his ordination. Bishop McCormack served as national director of the Society for the Propagation of
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the Faith from 1980 until his retirement in 2001. Pope John Paul II ordained him an auxiliary bishop of New York in Rome on Jan. 6, 1987. He was vice chancellor of the archdiocese from 1970 to 1980, with responsibilities as chairman of the Archdiocesan Building Commission, Institutional Commodity Services and Ecclesiastical Maintenance Services. In 1971 he was named secretary to the archdiocesan board of consultors and in 1975 he served briefly as administrator of Holy Family parish, Manhattan. He served as archdiocesan director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 1964-1970, after serving for three years as assistant director. He was director of the archdiocesan Office of World Justice and Peace, 1968-1976. He was parochial vicar of St. Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx, 1959-1961. He was named a monsignor in 1962… From Alan Burrell: “Katy and I keep on going at 85 and 81. Not so well as 3-5 years ago, but quite well. I still play tennis 2-3 days a week; and kayak now and then on the Waccamaw River nearby. We walk the ocean, too. I exchanged notes with Hugh Tovar recently and had Thanksgiving dinner with four college-aged grandsons at one of our daughter’s tables representing each college class. I feel pretty lucky. My chief concern is for our country.”
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Peter MacLellan and his wife, Ann Marie, welcomed their first great-grandchild in September. Peter’s oldest
grandchild, Jessica, is the new mother of baby Mya Smith.
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Richard Daly is doing well. He is in touch with Frank Hurley, who plans, along with Richard, to be at their 70th Portsmouth Reunion in 2013.
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“Trading the World” is a new show on CNBC, hosted by Tim Seymour, Michael Seymour’s son.
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55th Reunion OCT 1-3, 2010!
At his meeting with Jamie MacGuire ‘70 last spring, Chris Ward related that his grandmother, theatre critic Euphemia van Rensalaer Livingston Waddington Wyatt, had what was at one time the longest name in the Social Register. Chris’s uncle, Christopher Billopp Wyatt III ’32, was in the second class to graduate from Portsmouth. His mother, Jane Wyatt, starred opposite Ronald Colman in the film version of Lost Horizon and is fondly remembered as the mother playing opposite Robert Young from 1954-60 in the popular television series, “Father Knows Best.” Jane Wyatt and Chris’s father, Edgar Bethune Ward, met in the late 1920s when both were weekend guests of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Hyde Park. Sadly, last fall, Chris Ward passed away due to a protracted illness. See our memorial on page 43 in this issue.
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