class notes Alumni Fund Goal: $175,000 Class Secretary: Jeffrey J. F=ox, F=ox & Co Inc., l Gilbert 1-lill Rd., Chester, CT 06412 e-mail: jeffrey.fox.1967@trincoll. edu; fax: 860-677-5349 Class Agent: Robert Boas
In previous editions of this August publication, the men of the great Class of '67 have been insistently encouraged to get a colonoscopy In the last issue, the men of said same great class were encouraged to raise a glass and toast one another to "stay forever young." One of our dear classmates put the two encouragements together, and eureka, he made the connection: one way to stay forever young is to avoid being unnecessarily dead forever. Our classmate went to the hospital; got gassed; had some bad stuff removed; and awakened to a long life. As they say in the old country: Slainte, A Votre Sante, Skal, Eis Igian, I:chaim, Salute, Cheerio. So let's hear it for our classmate who won't miss the next reunion, and for each other. Well the bloom is off the rose at Bloomingdale's. After 30 years working at the storied Bloomingdale's (NYC) , Jim O 'Connor is hanging them up. Now that he has the time he will finally complete the historical mystery he has been working on for four years. Jim is taking writing lessons from his wife, Jane, who is the megablockbuster author of the Fancy Nancy books. Fancy Nancy is the heroine of all girls aged three through eight, and of their moms and grandmothers. Jane has been on the NY Times best-seller list for over IOO weeks! Undoubtedly Jim's novel will also be a best seller. Contact Jim at joconrn@excite.com. If you want to see stunning images and photographs go to www.richardstultz.com. Our Rick Stultz is a big time photographer who makes formally composed photographs of "man-made environments devoid of people." It was IO years ago, after a career in investment real estate, that Rick returned to his original passion: taking pictures. And the boy can take pictures! His work is featured in the Modern book Gallery in Palo Alto (and elsewhere) in the company of the best photographers on the planet. Get in touch with Rick at RS@RichardStultz.com. If you have fungus , there is good news. Dr. Jay Birnbaum helped develop an anti -fungal product for NexMed, Inc. So delighted is NexMed that Jay has been appointed to its scientific advisory board. Jay's main gig is consulting to the pharmaceutical industry Prior to starting his firm in '99, Jay was VP, Global Project Management, for Novartis/ Sandoz Pharmaceuticals. For those classmates who lived in, ate in, or partied in the Crow House or Sigma Nu, you would be well advised to contact Jay After coaching girl's crew at Phillips Academy (Andover, MA) for 34 years, Bob Moss is putting away the oars. Bob also taught French and worked in admissions. As a retirement present, Andover sent Bob and his girl's first boat to the women's Henley Regatta in England. Bob's boat came in second, losing to Canada's Junior National Team. Not bad. Bob is living on the Cape, playing with his grandchildren, and planning a trip to Provence (which is in France, and where the people speak the same language Bob taught in school). To wish Bob "a votre sante." contact him 52
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at amossjr@comcast.net. At least Charlie Kurz is not retmng; he's "redeploying." After 35 years at Keystone, his fam ily's shipping business, Charlie decided it was time to dry dock and to redeploy his experience and skills into new opportunities, and to put even more time into Trinity, the Penn Charter School, various Kurz endowed funds , and the Valley Presbyterian Church. Charlie is on the go, visiting daughter Kate in Switzerland and son Chad in D.C. As usual with Captain Kurz, it's damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead. The best number to reach Charlie is 610-649-7839. Send facts to Fox. although salacious gossip is preferred. Stay forever young and get that colonoscopy
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Alumni Fund Goal: $1,100,000 Class Secretary: William T. Barrante, P.O. Box 273, Watertown, CT 06795-0273 e-mail: wil liam.barrante.1968@ trincol l.edu; fax: 860-738-4906 Reunion Committee: George 1-l. Barrows, Alan Kramer, Stephen Peters, Larry Roberts, Lawrence J. Slutsky, M.D., William Walsh Your Secretary this past March broke his right ankle and is not able to get around very well. In June we have our 4oth reunion. I trust I will be healed enough by then to make it back to the College to see and talk with as many of you as possible. Best wishes.
Alumni Fund Goal: $150,000 Class Secretary: Alden Gordon, F=ine Arts Department, Trinity Col lege, 300 Summit St., 1-lartford, CT 06106-3100 e-mail: alden.gordon@trincoll. edu Class Agents: Nathaniel S. Prentice; Matthew S. Simchak
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Responses to my call for commitments to our 4oth Reunion in June '09 have begun to trickle in. ~ickest responses came from Todd Pearson (The Haverford School) and Scott Duncan. Todd has positively committed so he deserves the biggest lobster at the clambake. Scott reports that he tried retirement for 14 months but wrote it off as practice only He has returned to consulting and road warrior. Scott spent his 6oth birthday last November driving in the Blue Ridge Mountains and visiting college campuses, quite different from his consulting work. Another voice out of the past came in response to a query from Fritz Lowe published in the winter '08 Trinity Reporter Class Notes. Alex Gillmore wrote from Foxboro, MA, to re -establish contact with freshman year roommates from Jarvis Tower, Andy Massie, Fritz Lowe, and your secretary. Fritz, "phone home!" The e-mail you gave me last fall doesn't seem to work! Alex completed his degree at BC in ' 71 by taking a course taught by Trinity alum Paul Diesel '66, who had lived on the floor
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below us as freshmen. He and his wife, Dorothy, have two children; Anna is 26 and a graduate student In geology at UMass Amherst, and Alexander, 23, will graduate from Northeastern next month with a degree in computer science. Alex has had two careers, one in the wholesale steel contracting business and since '97 information technology with EDS in Warwick, RI. He and Dody have targeted retirement in '12. On a recent pre-retirement exploration of the west coast of FL, Alex and Dody visited Jim Olivetti and his wife, Trudi. Matt Simchak sent word from his mountaintop redoubt in PA that he is fully retired and totally unapologetically doing all manner of unlawyerlike things. including tree- pruning, tractor-driving, and home maintenance. Matt and his wife, Jane (whom you will remember he dated while at Trinity) . will be back on campus in May to celebrate the graduation of their youngest child Steve Simchak '08. Matt writes, "Jane is still teaching full time at the National Cathedral School in WA, where she teaches sixth-grade girls English .... Our three sons are sources of pride and pleasure for us. The youngest, Stephen, will be graduating from Trinity in a few weeks after majoring in history He's just been accepted into a master's program by the London School ofEconomics; he'll be over there for a year, starting in September. Our middle son, Jack, graduated last year from Skidmore College; he's living in our apartment in WA and teaching music to pupils in Northern VA. And our oldest, Tom, is in his fourth (and final) year of braduate school at Oxford, where he's been studying environmental policy A couple of days ago we learned that his proposal of marriage has been accepted by another Oxford student, who is a Rhodes Scholar. We are very happy at this news; and I hope that Tom is now showing the good sense that his father was fortunate to stwnble into- marrying a young lady who is very smart, kind. charming, and sensible, and allowing her to guide her foolish husband out of all the alligator pits where his poor judgment will otherwise take him." Carl Fridy, who has been unheard from for too long, wrote me the following news of him self and his wife Jean: "(We are) heading for our 4oth wedding anniversary this fall. I'm still laboring at the law in the same firm as I started with in '73, and am off in a couple of weeks to my 35th law school reunion at Duke. Where have the years gone?! All four of our kids are grown and through college, our youngest (and the caboose by eight years) one having graduated from Duke last year. Our older two are married and we have four grandchildren, witl1 Sarah (our oldest and the Trinity grad) expecting her third child this summer. We have recently acquired a second home in MD near Assateague Island, which is serving well its intended function of attracting large and regular family gatherings. We found the area through Graham McDonald who has owned a second home there for a while now. We see him and his wife frequently both there and here at home. Another classmate in the area is David Pollack, who joined our firm a number of years ago and is a regular train commuter with me, living nearby in Radnor." Carl also alerted me to the very sad news of the death of our classmate, Doug Watts. on March 14, 2008. There is an obituary for Doug in this issue of the Reporter. Doug and his wife Susan had two daughters Deborah '94 and Katie 'oo, who