Paul Breslau We live in Scottsdale, AZ, where I run Breslau Insurance & Benefits, Inc. We enjoy no longer having teenage children with easier travel, etc. I could not make the recent reunion, but it was good to see the emails from 1970 classmates.
Samuel Rapp My wife and I are both retired and we plan to do more traveling. I am planning on attending the 40th reunion of our class. We have two sons, one of which is an Army veteran, having served in Iraq!
Iver Franzen What can I say? This reunion was a lot of fun!! It was great reconnecting with the old hands—Billy, Mole, Ed (still has the pipes), Peter (you’re now officially a COG), Alan, Keith, Carl, Brett (talked with a few of the students; they seem to think you’re OK; what a great job you’ve done at the school!), Kit (you need to write the official class history; remarkable memory of details, almost a bit scary), Chris, Jerry (Deb’s favorite dance partner at the 2000 bash)— and meeting some terrific newer ones—Charlie (great job you’ve done with the school!), Hillary (great seeing your dad again!), Betsy (we’ll talk later...)! The COGS reunion was a special treat! We all thoroughly missed Coach Gooch at rehearsal, and our best wishes go out to him. Brad, I’m sure you would have cringed a bit at our “gig” at dinner, but I think you would have been proud as well. After having not sung those tunes for 40 years (even longer for some of us), we pulled it off pretty well! So, until ‘15, “fair winds & cheap diesel!”
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Kit Warner Great reunion! A spirited group from the class of 1970 made it back to school on Oct.15-17. I hadn’t seen most of the guys since graduation, so it was quite fun the catch up. Class Agent Coach Weeden was able to get an e-mail chain organized so a number of people were able to connect and several were able to attend in person. It was also great to hear from others who couldn’t make it. Keith Callahan, the Coach, Jerry Wood, Carl Miller, Alan Harvey, Mole Powers, Ed Morgan, Iver Franzen, Peter Scholtz, and of course Brett Vianney were among the cast of characters in attendance. In addition, Billy Morin, who is now a “townie”, was able to introduce us all to the delights of his favorite watering hole in Enfield, “Chicago Sam’s.” Some things never change. Among other highlights of the weekend was a COGS reunion performance featuring Ed, Iver, Carl, and Peter. We all had a lot of laughs and missed those who couldn’t attend. As for me, life remains about the same, thankfully. Still living in Rye, New York and commuting to New York every day. My older son is at University College, London, for a term before returning to Duke this winter. My younger son Max ‘11 is finishing his last year at Suffield, which he has enjoyed thoroughly, and my wife Jaime continues with her busy life. I look forward to our next reunion but hope to hear from many more classmates of 1970 in the meantime!
Class Agents Chip Spear Charles.spear.CTR@navy.mil John Therriault john.therriault@janostech.com Ron Rivard All is well! I miss my days at Suffield. I hope to come visit soon! Stephanie E. Thomases Hutchison ’80 and her 3 children Brielle (13), Billy (11), and Summer (9).
1973 Class Agents Jody Cranmore jcranmore@cfmlawfirm.com Jim Knight j.jamesknight@comcast.net Chris Richter Hello Suffield. I recently visited the campus with my father during the spring Parent’s Day, and we enjoyed touring the Tisch Field House and the remainder of the campus. My retired life has taken a rather sudden and unexpected turn. I am now spending the majority of my time in Vienna, Austria and I am rehabbing a 100-year-old apartment for my significant other, an American ex-pat who resides in Vienna. I spent the last 6 months of 2009 traveling, including 5 weeks backpacking in Alaska, 6 weeks doing the same throughout 20 plus national parks and monuments in the US. I also spent 3 weeks traveling between Lisbon, Portugal, and Salvador, Brazil, and another 3 weeks in Seattle area and in Hawaii. Hope everyone is well and enjoying themselves.
Jeff Prudden It was an honor to sing with the COGS of 1970. I was unable to sing with them when I was at Suffield. (I joined COGS after they graduated.)
1974 Class Agents Blair Childs blair_childs@premierinc.com Bud Hancock albert.hancock@inginvestment.com Tom Leonard run26leon@cox.net Jim Hogg Recently, I traveled to Havana, Cuba, with a delegation of 22 from Tropical Lodge No. 56, F & AM, (Fort Myers, Fla.) to provide humanitarian aid in the form of sporting goods and equipment to the local children’s Oncology Hospital in Havana. We also participated in the 150th anniversary of the Grand Lodge, AL y AM of Cuba, where Tropical Lodge was “twinned” with Soles de Marti Lodge of Havana, Cuba. Additionally, I have been qualified and accepted by the Circuit Court in Collier County, Florida, as an expert witness in the field of mortgage lending!
1975 Class Agents Carey Fiertz cfiertz@exportrisk.com Mark Teed mark.teed@wfadvisors.com
1971 Class Agents Pierre Genvert genvert@verizon.net Leo Letendre leo.j.letendre@pfizer.com Brian Morris bmorris1000@yahoo.com Stewart Alsop “Stewart and his partner Gilman Louie raised their second venture fund for their partnership, Alsop Louie Partners. They invest in early stage technology companies in a partnership they formed in 2006. Stewart is also extremely proud to report that he is a first time grandfather to his daughter Nathalie’s son, Mohamed Adam Hrizi.”
Charles Rawson ’75 offers recreational arts experiences to young and old in the Verde Valley of Arizona. 56 | www.suffieldacademy.org
the mooning. We missed some hockey ice time on account of that ladies poor sense of humor. I really laugh at our high tea service which we made available to Mr. Banks at his repeated request. I loved the different personalities. Silky Sullivan, Pedro Agudo, Joe Campanelli (who lost his dad during our senior year), Janice Hadley, Richard Swift, Sarah Wheaton (to name only a few). All so much their own persons!! My days now are taken up with paying back in some small way for what Mario Vincenti, John Pohanka and Alan Hoffacker offered me as a young, lost soul—to believe I mattered, to have faith that we all matter, and not to hinder another’s expression of that fact. I do this by offering recreational arts experiences to young and old here in the Verde Valley of AZ.
Charles Rawson I remember some good people and times from those days. It was a special and challenging time in Suffield’s history. Our class was the first to graduate girls in over 70+ years I believe. I remember Fuller Barnes and myself challenging the admin. (in student-faculty senate meetings) to stock the boys bathrooms with the same quality t.p. as the girls bathrooms. I remember difficult days when nobody had the answers because it was all so new to us. Those girls—now wonderful and beautiful women who have grandchildren perhaps—were amazing in their bravery, in their strength of spirit, and good nature. I recall Mr. Samii being so perplexed at the ruckus he caused due to his habit of knocking us over the head with his pipe. Now, he was required to develop new methods since the girls were not expected to recieve such “love taps.” I laugh at the thought of Brian Holmes’ hairy butt offending some lady so much she called in to complain about
Pia Bungarten We are about to complete our first year in Washington where we moved in July 2009. My husband Tom Baker continues his work on the semantic web and linked data. Our son Anton likes his new school, Washington International School. I continue to focus on transatlantic cooperation at Friedrich-Ebert Foundation. Chandler Hill I am having a great year. Outside of work, I am enjoying my 12-year-old son’s basketball and football teams. If the schedule permits, I hope to visit Suffield for the 35th reunion. Janice Hadley The 35th was a really fun time for me. The campus looked beautiful, and my classmates looked beautiful. When I was 17-years-old, I wanted to be part of something good and noble. Choosing to attend Suffield was one of the best decisions I ever made. Suffield Academy has a special place in my heart, as do my classmates!
1976 Class Agents Jennifer Cartmell jannecart@yahoo.com Molly Debevoise Rennie molly.rennie@uwmorris.org Neil Smit smitneil@aol.com Jan Walker Larsson I am still living in Stockholm, Sweden with my family of 8. I’m married to Torbjörn and we have 6 kids together. All the kids are now between the ages of 17-21. Some have moved out, some have moved back so it is a period of change for many of us. The majority of the family members are still in Stockholm, with the exception of our second daughter who has moved to Oslo. My companies, BusinessWise and CoachAhead continue to develop; we have had 2 consecutive years of extremely good business, so good that my husband came into the business which is a lot of fun. We focus on Individual & Team development, Cultural Dynamics and Organizational Change. We had a wonderful vacation in Croatia in the summer: fantastic snorkeling, clear water and great sun. I met up with Hans Edlund a couple times this year who was ’75 I believe. He is working within the Volvo concern and it was just really nice to reconnect. I have also had a couple of conversations with my old roommate, Denise Williams ’77. It was just like yesterday when we spoke, even though it has been over 30 years. A great feeling! We want to try to get together, but we have nothing planned yet. Anyone who would like to come to Stockholm is more than welcome.
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