Hope you have made plans to be at PDS on May 15 and 16 for our 45th reunion. Naurene Donelly, Meg Brinster Michael and Janet Masterton have been meeting regularly to ensure that it is a great event. Here’s a teaser… Do you know who the PDS “Lifers” are in our class? (a “lifer” is someone who began at MFS in either kindergarten or first grade and stayed all the way through until graduation.) We think they are Allison Gilbert Kozicharow, Brita Light, Pam Orr Marck and Vicki Johnson Pickering. Are we missing anyone? Freddy Erdman hopes to attend our reunion. He reported that he tries to visit his mother on a regular basis, Mrs. Erdman lives at Stonebridge in Rocky Hill. He wrote, “Unfortunately, I never seem to be able to find time to visit other Princeton friends when I am down there. Still CFO at a retirement facility, just like Stonebridge, in Shelburne, Vermont. Can’t wait to try retirement but that is still a few years away. Most years, I have been able to catch up with Deebs Young for a day at Saratoga but don’t seem to see any other classmates.” Lew Bowers wrote, “I retired from the Portland Development commission after 15 years there at the end of 2013. Now I can be a high-priced consultant. My major project is developing a 25-unit proactive senior cohousing project for Susan and me and 24 other compatible households. It will combine urban walkability with cohousing with agingin-place design. We hope to begin construction early next year. Lots of fun as it combines my experience in development an urbanism with my passion for community building.” Freddi Cagan-Doeringer plans to attend our 45th reunion.
Bob Peck will attend our reunion if Salup attends.
“We still have our boat, but haven’t taken it down to Hilton for the past three winters due to Karen’s schooling and my new job. We’re hoping to get back there within the next year or two (both our jobs will allow us to work from home).
“As far as retirement goes, we both like working too much to have a date set yet to join the leisure class. Probably at least 5 to 10 years for me, and a little longer for Karen. “I am hoping to get to the reunion this year.”
Janet Masterton wrote, “I have been busy since I took early retirement six years ago from Johnson & Johnson! I am still called to do some consulting for pharmaceutical companies and I like the ‘expertise’ approach for providing quality and regulatory solutions. Also, previously it was traveling for business, now it is great fun to just pick up and go. Mostly the trips are visiting family and friends and they have been as far as north to Alaska and south to the Caribbean. “I enjoy visiting with Ann Wiser Fries and Meg Brinster Michael and Nicki Sarett. These ladies are great friends and we still do chat and reminisce about the good old days at PDS.
“I also see my dear and talented crafts teacher and friend, Jeanne Duff, who is amazing! She is always on the go and attends almost every play at McCarter Theater and many of the interesting art and cultural events in the area. She is such a good and caring friend to so many. Surely, Jeanne will be at our class reunion! “We all hope that our esteemed and very cool English teacher, mentor and friend Huson Gregory will also attend our class reunion, unless he and his lovely wife Mimi are traveling the globe. After PDS, Huson was the revered Headmaster at Portledge School in Locust Valley, Long Island. Now, they are
enjoying a well-deserved retirement; the sea, sun and sites of Cape Cod!
“Retirement for me is wonderful and each and every day is superb!” Margaret Meigs wrote from sunny Key West, “Random news, in no special order: My husband Paul and I still live in Philadelphia. Last year we moved into our final space−a newly-built condo in the Queen Village neighborhood. We walk and bike to almost everything: great restaurants, food emporia, yoga studios abounding.
“Paul is semi-retired but working a bit still and very busy as a masters athlete (rowing). I am still working from a home office in marketing research−focus groups, ethnographic research, and the like for a variety of clients.
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Bruce Plapinger wrote, “My wife (Karen) and I are both doing well. Our career paths have changed in the last two years. We saw that our retail client base was slowly going away, and the prospects for new business were slim. So we shut our little consulting business down and pursued some different avenues. My wife went back to school and got her associates degree in Health Information ’69 mini-reunion in December: Sue Denise Harris, Bob Management. She graduRathauser, Pooh Holt, Bebe Ramus, Alan Fliss, Ronnie ated last June and is now Davis Fliss, Stan Harris, Mary Lou Delahanty and Debra working at Christiana Care Hospital as a mediRathauser cal coder, a job she really likes, and will provide her with job security 1970 for the foreseeable future. I went to work as a Ann Wiley full-time software developer at Highmark Blue 124 Traditions Way Cross/Blue Shield. I’m coming up on my twoLawrenceville, NJ 08648 year anniversary there. Like the job, and think 609-403-6152 it’s secure for quite a while. awiley@pds.org
“Children are 30, 28 and 26. No weddings, no grandchildren … yet. (Soon, I hope!) Our daughters both live in Brooklyn (OF COURSE!) and our son in northeast Philadelphia. So everyone is reasonably close by.
“Paul got me into rowing about 15 years ago and I spent the last two years as Commodore (yes, that’s the title) of the Schuylkill Navy of Philadelphia, the organization that oversees rowing in Philly and puts on, among other things, the Stotesbury Cup — the world’s largest high school regatta. The Schuylkill Navy is the oldest amateur athletic organization in the US (founded in 1858) and it’s been a lot of fun to work on behalf of a very great sport that changes a lot of lives. “My dad died in November at the age of 93. He had a wonderful long life but the last years were difficult. Meg Brinster Michael and Ann Wiser’s mother came to the funeral. My mother, at 88, still plays bridge every day and enjoys living at Windrows, where Mrs. Wiser also lives. “Writing this while on a week’s stay in Key West — the warm! — makes me know spring will soon be here and so will our reunion. I look forward to seeing many of you then and hearing what you are up to.”
Gene and Allison Gilbert Kozicharow are “eagerly awaiting the birth of our second grandchild, another girl, in March. She will be named Allison! She joins older sister, Scarlett, mom Maggie (still teaching high school English at the Holton-Arms School) and dad David. My daughter, Nicky, is finishing her PhD at Cambridge University in Russian Art History and is applying for jobs in England. I am still working as editor and writer and doing Spanish translations — all in federal government health contracts developing materials for the general public. Has everyone had a shingles shot?”
Scarlett, granddaughter of Allison Gibert Kozicharow ’70
Spring 2015