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Class Notes Class of 1962
Kay Alvarez has recently retired from her position of 34 years as office manager at a dental practice. She lives in Marietta. Charlie Arp is a dentist in Atlanta. He and his wife, Yetty (Levenson) ’64 are the parents of Kimberly A. Babbit ’88, Shaune Arp ’94, and Meggan Arp ’97. Granddaughter Brooke Babbit has carried the Lovett tradition to a third generation and is now a first grader at the school. Charlie was a Lovett trustee for many years and served as board chair, as well. Pamela Barclay is a portrait painter living in Oregonia, Ohio. She is employed by two companies in Lebanon, Ohio. Her sons are P. King Holmes, Jr., 42, and Rich Barclay Holmes, 40, a Presbyterian USA minister and doctoral candidate in religion at the University of South Carolina. Her sons and their families are based in South Carolina, as is Pam’s sister, Celeste Barclay Spires ’63. Laurel Anne Waits Barrett and her husband, David, are the parents of David, Jr. 42, and Michelle, 39. The Barretts live in Norcross. Anne Smiley Bridges and her husband, Roger, live in Dunwoody and enjoy spending time—and making wonderful memories—with family and friends. Their winters are spent in Boca Grande, Fla. They have three children and seven grandchildren.
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Bob Bryan lives in Union Point, in the North Georgia mountains. He is now retired from commercial real estate but stays very busy with special interests: Asian cooking, ecology, and land conservation. He also enjoys hiking, raising Bantam exotic chickens, and studying eastern philosophy. Bob is the father of two daughters, Mary Hart, 40, and Bess, 38. Pete Caldwell lives in Atlanta and has been retired several years from Doppler Studios. Linda Lee Cameron retired from The Galloway School and finds herself busier than ever. She and her husband have two children and five grandchildren, including two sets of twins. The Camerons live in Atlanta. Meredith Ogden Conklin and her husband, Chuck, live in Dawsonville. They are parents of two, Charles III, 44, and Christina, 42. Meredith fondly remembers attending some Lovett classes taught in the Hall of Bishops at St. Philip’s, Headmaster Dr. Kellett, Mr. Warren’s English classes, trips to Wender and Roberts, and chapel services. Bob Cook is a mining engineer and an exploration geologist. He also owns several quarries and has interests in precious metal deposits. He is the father of a son, Robert Lee, 42. After Lovett graduation, Bob went on to earn two degrees in mining engineering from Colorado School of Mines, and later became the first student to receive a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Georgia. Five years ago after his retirement from teaching at Auburn, the university
honored Bob by establishing an endowed chair in geology in his name. During his interesting career, he has been a consultant to NASA, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as United Nations Senior Technical Advisor to China in the early 1990s. He writes that “my education at Lovett prepared me very well for college, and the friends I made at the school, although of only occasional contact in recent decades, represent some of my fondest memories. Those were the good times—far simpler than today.” Bill Crawley is in residential real estate with Atlanta Fine Homes/ Sotheby’s International Realty. Carol Chandler Dew is a real estate investor with her own firm, CLC Enterprises, Inc., in Atlanta. She and her husband, James, a physician, are the parents of Harris, 42, and Elizabeth, 37. The Dews love traveling and have lived abroad in both Japan and also Saudi Arabia. She remembers classes at St. Philip’s during her first year at Lovett and then moving junior year to the new campus with a lake and ducks. Carol’s most memorable teachers were Tish Lange Nash, James Warren, and Sue Williams, a very young history teacher. Rita Traver Fink is a wellness consultant and author. She and her husband, Gene, are parents of a daughter, Robin, 38, and son, Darren, 36. Rita worked a bit in the 1966 Florida gubernatorial campaign, got her securities and insurance licenses while down there, and then returned to Atlanta. She has been a volunteer