is good news.” Heddy Fairbank Reid writes, “Trip and I have just celebrated our 50th anniversary, a staggering achievement. Unthinkable that we should both be active and (relatively) sentient as we climb the ladder of life (LOL, right?). I write (and sometimes publish) poetry, diet, and volunteer, but not enough. Trip is an active reader, learner, and volunteer. Our two sons and grandsons live relatively near us, and they are a joy.”
Isabelle Houghton ’13 with her grandmother Maisie Kinnicut Houghton ’55 on graduation day last year.
Ross Hall reports, “We continue to enjoy our involvement in the Revels programs throughout the year, and #2 son Alex sang and folk-danced in the 2013 Christmas show — 16 performances in Sanders Theatre.” Anstiss Hammond Krueck writes, “Hi to everyone from cold gray Chicago. Now I finally understand why folk of a certain age move to warmer climes. Hoping to see you all at our next reunion, for I can’t tell you how often Shady Hill and our experience there enter my thoughts. Love to all!” Ellen Zetzel Lambert reports, “I’m still teaching highschool English at Dalton in NYC — feeling blessed to have a job I love this much. I do find continuing pleasures and surprises in working with adolescents. I’ve been writing a book about my experiences, a chapter of which has recently been published in the quarterly journal Raritan. My starting point in this essay is a tragic student-suicide that took place at the school a few years ago — an event which led to the banning of suicide-related literature from our high-school English curriculum. Thinking that some of my Shady Hill classmates might be interested and want to read this piece, I’m sending you the link: https://www.dropbox. com/s/2ivkds62uvrf91d/Lambert_RaritanXXXIII1. pdf. I also feel blessed to have a husband I love to come home to every day, and that we have between us seven grandchildren, who are all very much a part of our lives.” Kaky Gilbert Lidz reports, “Nothing new here. I’m still working, relatively healthy, enjoying myself. So no news
SHADY HILL SCHOOL WINTER 2014
Clarke Slater reports, “Helen and I are both still very active in the local musical world, mostly playing but also I do a bit of admin., trying to keep the main orchestra I play in solvent. I am still doing some science, which now involves occasional enjoyable trips to Switzerland in a consulting capacity. Otherwise we are still in the old stone house in the small village in the north east of England where we have been since 1975 (Google ‘Ebchester’ and look for the house with the tennis court at the ‘bottom of the garden’ if you’re interested). Both our kids remain in the USA: Ben combines his work as an engineer for Wyoming Public Radio with a master’s degree in creative writing at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, and Jess is nearing the end of a PhD in auditory neuroscience at Northwestern, looking at the effects of music training on the ability of the brain to analyze sounds. Talk about a family of eternal students!” Miriam Kellogg Truslow will be participating in the 2014 Alumni Art Show. The opening reception is on March 26 from 7:00 – 9:00 PM in the Assembly Hall. The show will be up from March 25 to March 28. Anne Luther von Rosenberg writes, “The vonRs are alive and well. Loving life up Belmont Hill at the Woodlands Condo. Good cruising last summer. Grandkids growing like weeds. Off on a Tanzania safari in February. Must admit that while I hope to make our 60th, I really got quite a start when daughter Heidi Klapinsky ’88 had her 25th last June. What?” Gus Webster writes, “My daughter Sarah was married in August to Paul, a neurological researcher who recently transferred to the University of Washington to finish studies for his doctorate. They met at Johns Hopkins U. where they were both doctoral students. Sarah received