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FALL / WINTER 2021 WEBB MAGA ZINE
newsnotes THE WEBB SCHOOLS
1959 A big thanks to Jim Hall who entertained us with a performance of the peccary song on his clarinet during the virtual Peccary Dinner on October 16. 1
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The annual Rogers Scholar dinner was held virtually this year. John Rogers and his wife June enjoyed meeting the 2020-21 Rogers Scholars and Rogers Peccary Scholars during the online event held on Saturday, December 5.
1960 Michael Moore
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spoke with Alison Hansen from the Advancement Office about his artwork and shared some Webb memories. "When Lachlan MacDonald, my sophomore English teacher, started the literary magazine called Sage as an extracurricular project, I became art editor for a time and contributed drawings all three years I was there. Hod Gray,
Jon Carroll, Chip Porter, Terry White and others were involved in that and were definitely aiders and abettors of our little unironic beatnik scene." See some of Michael’s artwork and read the full article at webb.org/alumni.
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1965 Eleven members of the Class of ’65 celebrated their 55th reunion in November with a fun afternoon on Zoom remembering favorite faculty and sharing Webb stories. Several admitted that they cannot open a book, it must be done carefully, without thinking about Larry McMillin. Deceased classmates were also honored, and during a specially made PowerPoint, the class shared personal memories and recent family updates. The successful event concluded with a call to create a Class of ’65 Facebook group and to gather virtually again soon. Thanks to Dwight
Morgan, David Wright, Patrick Stroop, Greg Dyer, Bill Vestal, Mark Smith, John Hawkins, Kenneth Elliott, Ken Gregg, Bob Wallace and Rick Smith for attending. See photo on page 71.
1967 Peter Huisking was named the 2019 Volunteer of the Year for Service to the Armed Forces by the American Red Cross, Southern Arizona Chapter. The award recognizes his work as a Medical Support Assistant at the Raymond W. Bliss Army Health Center, Fort Huachuca. For the past five years, he has assisted at the clinic with soldiers, family members, and retirees and facilitates care with military and civilian medical staff. 1969 Miles Rosedale and Randall Lewis enjoyed a terrific performance by Richard Hastings at Sherman Gardens in Corona Del Mar, under the stars. 2
1970 By late spring, the Class of 1970 agreed to postpone their 50th reunion gathering on campus and switched gears. Knowing they could not let the 50th pass without doing something, Jim Hawkins,
Joe Thomas, Larry Ashton, Randy Davies, Mickey Novak, Nat Forbes, and Gene Gregg met on Zoom and came up with a few ideas. They scheduled a two-hour October Zoom reunion. It lasted five hours! (Reputation secure —Larry Ashton signed off last!) In all, 28 classmates connected. Many of them proposed follow-up Zooms for next year. The school helped with a special commemorative t-shirt and, of course, a face mask. See zoom reunion photo on page 71. 3
1972 In 1980, Karl Brown cofounded Automatic Pilot with Matthew McQueen who he met through the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. Over four years they performed with acoustic instrumentation in a confrontational language they dubbed "Erotic Jazz Wave." With the AIDS deaths of five members, Automatic Pilot folded, but through interviews, recordings and ephemera, their place in the queer pop music narrative can be acknowledged. The band was the subject of a paper by University of Nevada, Reno music professor Louis Niebur and presented at the July 2020 Society for American Music virtual conference. A recording of the presentation can be found on YouTube.
