in Memoriam
1955 John H. Frohlicher peacefully passed away on Friday, January 31, 2014 in Springfield, VA. John was born in St. Paul, MN on December 12, 1937 to the late John C. and Vera Hanawalt Frohlicher. He graduated from St. Paul Academy and held degrees from Harvard Univ. (BA in English Literature), Wharton School of the Univ. of Penn. (MBA) and Georgetown Univ. Law Center (JD), graduating 4th in his class. John worked as an attorney in private practice for many years and also for the U.S. Department of Education. He was a world traveler and enjoyed music, playing bridge and reading.
1956 Margaret Anne Page (Peg) McCubbin passed away on July 13, 2013. Peg graduated from Summit School and then Macalester College with a degree in Biology. She married D. Bruce McCubbin. They lived in St. Paul where Peg was an elementary school teacher in the St. Paul school district. In 1971, they pursued a dream to move to the country, built their log house, making Center City their home and Chisago Lakes their community. Shortly after Bruce’s death in 1980, Peg returned to her first passion: teaching, in the Chisago Lakes school district. Peg had no children, but she developed a family relationship with John Rydning and his wife, Lisa of Center City. Peg took immense interest and pride in her three grandchildren: Philip, Annalies, and Chersti. She also warmly embraced Philip’s spouse, Jessica and Anna’s spouse, Zachary. Peg gained the status of becoming a great grandmother, with the addition of Zayne to the family one year ago. Peg is survived by her brother, Dennis ’59 (Susan) Page; John and Lisa Rydning; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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1957 Norman “Tim” Slade passed away on December 20, 2013. Tim was born in 1939 in St. Paul, MN, and was an avid hockey and chess player in his youth. Tim attended St. Paul Academy ’57, Phillips Exeter Academy (class of ’57), Amherst College (class of ’61), and then received an MA in classics from the University of Minnesota. Tim moved with his growing family to Winona, MN, in 1967. After teaching classics at St. Mary’s College and Cotter High School, Tim focused upon his lifelong interest in farming. His favorite farming memory was producing endless flowing windrows of freshly raked hay on the farm in Wilson Township. He is survived by his friend Helene Smith; children John (Wendy), Rachel (John) and Will (Andrea); three grandsons; sister Elizabeth “Lee” Driscoll ’50; and brothers James ’54 and Richard “Dick” ’48. Tim is preceded in death by his parents G. Norman and Elizabeth “Betty” Slade.
1961 Lawrence “Larry” Church Baker, passed away on July 14, 2013. Larry, a resident of Marine on St. Croix, passed away at the age 69 from an aneurism. He is survived by his sons, Sean (Darla) and Larry Jr (Andrea); grandsons, Eli, Max and Simon; sister, Dora “Doje” Baker and brother, Harold (Janet) Baker; and his beloved dog Five. A celebration of the passing of Larry’s life was held on Saturday, July 20, 2013 at First Universalist Church in Minneapolis.
1963 Lee Brown Pitman, passed away on February 1, 2014 after a long illness. She is preceded in death by her brother Gordon Brown ’72, and survived by her husband John Pitman, children David Pitman ’86 (Carrie Walsh) and Holley Haas ’88, three grandchildren, and sister Linda Brown Harris ’65 and brother-in-law Norm Harris ’62.
1994 Rachel Benepe passed away at the age of 37 on November 2, 2013 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota after battling cancer for several months. She was born on June 10, 1976, in St. Paul, Minnesota, the youngest of three children. After graduating from SPA, she attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied history and was a letter-winner in softball in 1995 and 1996. She joined Prudential Securities in New York City as an investment-banking trainee, and then moved to research at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., focusing on metals and mining. After receiving a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia Business School in 2003, she researched beverages at Gabelli & Co. in Rye, New York, and at Citigroup Inc., and then worked as an investment analyst focusing on consumer, retail, media and industrials for New York-based Artemis Advisors LLC. In 2008 she joined First Eagle Investment Management, and took over as a Portfolio Manager of the Gold Fund in 2009, which, under Rachel’s management, outperformed competitors as gold prices declined. Rachel also served as a Senior Analyst on the Global Value team. Her interests included squash and golf. Rachel is survived by her mother, Sharon, and two older brothers, Adam ’91 and Jason ’87.
2011 James Adams died on February 28, 2014 in a tragic automobile accident outside of Northfield, Minn., where he was a junior at Carleton College. A full obituary and tribute to James will be printed in the Summer 2014 issue of SPA Magazine. Faculty, staff, trustees & Friends Scott Robinson, former St. Paul Academy and Summit School teacher, passed away in Atlanta on June 14, 2013 after a long battle with sickle cell anemia. He was 47 years old. Scott taught English at SPA from 2000-2003.