Class Notes
▲ Members of the extended Horace C. and Grace T. Klein family visited SPA May 20 for a tour of the school. Horace was a trustee of St. Paul Academy from 1921-1950 and of Summit School from 1923-1946. Pictured back, from left, Fred
with son Jack.
1963
Nancy Leavitt Mulvey Timothy Griswold writes,
“Completing my fifth term (10 years) as First Selectman (Mayor) of the town of Old Lyme, Connecticut. Local politics has its challenges, but most everyone works for the good of the town, so it’s rewarding. Two daughters — Caroline, 30, who works for IBM in Washington, D.C., and Emily, 27, who is self-employed in horticulture/landscape design.”
1964
Cindy Schuneman Piper repip2@aol.com John Maher
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1965
Robert Erickson Bob Works
1966
Mike Brown mbrown@spa.edu
to be shown to more people was that she was able to hook me up with The Nickelodeon, a small movie house in Columbia, South Carolina, that screens independent films. Larry Hembree, director of the theater, liked the film and we arranged a screening in early February 2007. I went down and visited and was treated to real Southern hospitality by Patty and the arts community. The screening was almost a sell-out and we had a great discussion afterward. Patty, a world renowned painter, is finishing her new studio in Camden and it is a beautiful environment. Anyway, it was a remarkable experience for me to reconnect with Patty and to experience the grand old South for the first time. As Ed Read used to say, ‘A good time was had by all.’”
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Bradford ’63, Allan Klein ’64, Gigi Doerr Simmons, Jean Seymour Johnson ’62. Front, Bonnie Mairs ’54 with Thomas Bradford (son of John ’90), Mac Seymour ’53, John Bradford ’90
| 1962 continued
Bob Fink writes, “A remarkable and fortuitous SPA/Summit School connection occurred as a result of showing my film, Wally, at the Reunion Weekend in September 2006. Patty Blackwell ’67, who lives in Camden, South Carolina, contacted me after reading about the screening at the reunion. Since she couldn’t attend, I sent her a copy to view. From there, many things happened and the outgrowth of Patty’s deciding that the film needed
Filmmaker Bob Fink with theater director Larry Hembree Patty Blackwell entering The Nickelodeon to see Bob Fink’s documentary, Wally.
1967 40th Reunion | Oct. 11-14, 2007 Reunion weekend contacts: Phil Bratnober, Nancy Fulton, Dana Lindsay Nancy Platt Jones nandbjones@yahoo.com Phil Bratnober pbratnober@mn.rr.com
Class Agent Phil Bratnober writes, “Many ’67 class members are engaged in an active discussion about this fall’s 40th Reunion thanks to a listserv device that connects us all with the resilient force of a morning announcement by Ed Read. This is a more-the-merrier type of conversation, so please join the list if you haven’t already. To join, send an email query to Bob Altman (List Guru) at altlaw@ mindspring.com, and Bob will get you connected. John Seesel reports that he’s been busy with ‘hearings on the Hill’ this spring. We trust that these are associated with John’s brilliant, longstanding efforts on behalf of the FTC. John hasn’t sent me a cornucopia of praise for all the efforts of the U.S. Government over the last seven years, but I find it reassuring to know that there is at least one person in Washington who a) cares deeply; b) unblinkingly pronounces the word ‘nuclear’ without slaughtering it via consonant inversion; and c) studied Latin with Lyman Hawbaker. I, your humble Class Agent, have now persisted in my longest stint in the public high schools, teaching for seven years, going on eight. I recently added a Minnesota license to teach English and Speech, atop my existing theater license. This morning, Woodbury High School celebrates me as its Teacher of the Term, so something must be going right. My daughter, Carolyn, will be