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the same age. I hope I am making a difference in their lives, and I hope I might have done that with my students at PDS, too. When thinking of a special memory of teaching at PDS, what always pops into my head are the adventurous overnight trips to Blairstown in the fall. Also, I think back to the years when the second graders raised money by making and selling calendars, which they illustrated. We would use the money to purchase an animal (usually a sheep or a goat). Then we would caravan down to the Heifer Project headquarters outside Baltimore, leave our donation, and spend the night there. The next morning we had an exciting trip to the Baltimore Aquarium before heading back to Princeton. Wow! In retrospect, I don’t know how we ever did all that.” Bonnie (Howarth) Hunter wrote: “The big 2011 news is the arrival of my grandson, Jonny. He was born to my 42-year-old daughter, Jennifer, on May 3. (She is still in banking with Baniff in Brazil, divorced from Marcio Prado, and married to Marcelo Lima, who owns his own IT company.) I arrived down there on the day they came home from the hospital and walked into an apartment full of eleven people–all passing the baby around. I’ve made two other shorts visits there and plan to return this May for Jonny’s first birthday party…. Jeff continues to teach at Middlebury, Vermont. This year he’s been especially busy, preparing for his review for tenure, writing grants for an upcoming sabbatical, and remodeling his house. Jeff is currently an assistant professor of geography, in the Environmental Studies Program…. I’ve adopted two kittens (now cats) from a shelter, Macavity Pru, and Gulliver Foyle, named to honor TS Eliot and a science fiction teleporter. My routine is still the same: run a B&B for university visitors, usher constantly for McCarter, take pictures when I travel (most recently to India’s Seven Sisters, the Baltic States and St. Petersburg, Sri Lanka, and southern India). I had two one-woman photo shows last year: World Women and Festival Dance. I’m still teaching in the PDS Summer Program, running an eBay store, and puttering in the yard. And every day I still run out of time to do everything I’d planned. How come retirement is so busy?” John Ivors reported that it has been 42 years since he taught at PDS, but he still has fond memories of the school, and he hopes he made an impact on the
lives of the students he had the pleasure of teaching. After his four years at PDS, he continued as an athletic director and coach in Oklahoma and Georgia. He left teaching in 1976 to work for Coca-Cola in Atlanta. He retired from the soft drink industry in 2005. He still stays involved in athletics as a basketball official and baseball umpire at the high school and collegiate levels. His two daughters are teachers: the eldest teaches in Dallas and the younger daughter is a doctor who teaches at North Carolina State University. He also has two grandchildren. He asked to give his greetings to any students or faculty members who might remember him.
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place called RiverWoods, which has three campuses on 100 acres, with beautiful gardens. They live near their daughter, Candy, and her husband. Carroll and Ted have six great-grandchildren. Their son, Richard, retired from Yale, where he was assistant to the head of international studies. He has turned a huge ordinary house into a beautiful one with great property which runs down to the river in South Dartmouth, MA. Carroll had to have an eye removed because her cornea was scratched during a laser treatment and it got infected. The result is that walking down steps is hard and pouring is impossible, but she can read all but the small print of a dictionary.
John Jameson is the Dean Jacoby wrote: Science Chair at Regina “Life in New Mexico is Dominican High School going well. In the winter, in Wilmette, IL. He lives the nights are cold and in Grayslake, IL and will the days are sunny and be retiring at the end bright. The Sandias loom of this school year, after in the east, covered with teaching for 45 years. a fine powdering of snow. Once he retires, it will be My work at Albuquerque Academy continues to go Ainara,5, and Lur, 2, children of former easier for him to get back for PDS reunions. well. In the fall I helped college counselor Dean Jacoby. coach the varsity boys socPat Osander is back to pet/housecer team. Our season ended in the quarsitting (per Paul Epply-Schmidt she is “a terfinals of the state tournament to the lady of petigree”). She hopes that 2012 is a eventual champions—darn you, Farmbetter year. She broke her neck in August ington Scorpions. It seems to get harder 2010 and she got shingles in October 2011. every year to get into college, so there is always work to do and stress to manage. Rick McCready Karla is working at a local real estate office lives with his wife and and works part-time at my son’s kinderthree kids (Maggie (6), garten. Outside of school, the majority Huck (4), and Tabitha of my time is wrapped up in my kids. (2) outside of Boston. Ainara is five and Lur is two. They both He is in his seventh love pretending they are different animals, year of teaching math drawing, and playing in the desert dust. and coaching hockey Ainara also takes classes at the National and golf at Newton Flamenco Institute and Lur claims that he Country Day School. is “Tim Tebow” and loves to play football Judy Michaels (which consists mostly of collapsing into wrote: “My new book a big pile on the floor, usually with some came out in October: Former Faculty member Rick sort of ball nearby). PDS is never far from Catching Tigers In Red McCready’s children: Huck (4), our thoughts. Just this morning Karla and Maggie (6) and Tabitha (2). Weather: Imaginative I were talking about James Ramos ’03 and Writing and Student the extraordinary story of his life and the Choice in High School, published by Nafact that Chris Palsho ’02 is getting martional Council of Teachers of English ried. I can remember when they were just and is available from Amazon as well as in high school…” from NCTE. It has a foreword by Tom Jessica Kabis ’98 will be married Romano, one of the writers Bev Gallagher November, 3 2012. brought to the Weaving Words summer writing conferences that she held at PDS Carroll Kane is now living in New for a number of years. I served on a panel Hampshire, which she reports is “colder with Tom, so I got to know him through than New Jersey but has lovely scenery.” this event and we’ve stayed in touch ever She and her husband, Ted, are living at a SPRING 2012 • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL • 39