George Host
nghost@me.com
Clem Wood ’70 holds his newborn grandson, Oliver.
Lin Giralt ’72 feasting in Guangzhou, China.
Mark Wainwright ’72 (far left) celebrated the wedding of his son, Carroll L. Wainwright II, to Sophia Booth Magnone, with daughter Adelaide Wainwright ’01 (second from right) and her family.
Charlie Bronson
chasbronson@gmail.com
Bob Stockman
stockman@groupoutcome.com
Chip Haggerty writes: “Dudes, Bredrin (as my kid just back from Jamaica has me sayin’) You good?! AGAPE. The AGAPE sure was flowing at my 50th elementary school reunion on Long Island last May. The place was crawling with Paulies. Beautiful Bob Stockman, Bill Mathiessen ’73, and Alden Stevens ’73 all made the scene. That was Back to the Future, Terminator, Time Warp from Rocky Horror and every other ridiculous time travel plot line. I’m counting on you to know what I mean by that, even if I don’t. I feel like I can say anything to you. And you will get it. Except maybe what I just said.”
From David Holt: “In November, Donna and I traveled to Norway for the centenary celebration of my uncle Teddy Abrahamsen, my late father’s younger brother. Teddy recently stopped playing golf but he did solve the Rubik’s Cube and remains very sharp, active, goal-oriented and amusing. He barely survived a long stint in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp during the war; and a bicycle/van accident in middle age – he was on the bike. The centenary event was attended by the headmaster of his school, St. Edward’s near Oxford, England.”
Cindi Olson writes: “Welcome to the Roaring Twenties – go figure! Life is super crazy right now. Sold our home in Milton, N.H. Building our forever home in the mountains of Center Harbor, N.H., complete with solar energy and other green components. We are currently living the winter lakefront life on Ossipee Lake and loving it.”
Mark Wainwright is pleased to announce the wedding of his son, Carroll L. Wainwright II (“Max”) to Sophia Booth Magnone on December 7, 2019.
Alden Stevens
ahs472@optonline.net
A note from Richard Jenkins: “This past July, my wife (Linda) and I were on a Backroads bicycling trip in the San Juan Islands for a week. It was a fun trip with beautiful vistas, cooperative weather, endless undulating hills, a whale watching trip, including a humpback breeching the water, sea kayaking, and a steep climb up Mt. Constitution. While at dinner one night in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, fellow cyclist Miranda Cox ’79 (with husband Ned Foley) and I discovered our shared SPS background. Small world. We are planning another trip next summer. Join us!”
Jim Brooke sends this message: “I am living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine. At least the impeachment drama is teaching the world how to spell the city – and to not say ‘the Ukraine’ – a geographical reference, like “the Rockies.” I report and edit the Ukraine Business News, a weekday morning e-mail of new invest- ments and economic trends. With the youngest president, prime minister, and parliament in Ukraine’s history, a forward-looking, free- market group has taken over – a positive turn of the generational wheel. With a detente shaping up with our eastern neighbor (Russia), Ukraine now seems positioned to move ahead as Europe’s next frontier economy. Think Poland in the 1990s. Readership is rising – it is good to be having a positive impact. Having explored Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Russia, I now am in the Western Civilization chapter of my life. That brought me to Avignon last June, where I had a wonderful four days with Woody Halsey, and last month to London, where I reconnected with Leigh Bruce for lunch atop the National Portrait Gallery. Keeping me young is wife Pen and our 3.5-year-old son, George – now at maternelle at the French School.”
Jim Brooke ’73 (r.) with Leigh Bruce ’73 atop the National Portrait Gallery in London.
SPS guests at the wedding of Rob Deans ’08 were (l. to r.) Rob Deans ’73, Patrick Rulon-Miller ’58, Gill Deans ’75, Gabrielle Porter Dennison ’74, Homer Chisholm ’73, Elisabeth Deans ’78, and Alden Stevens ’73.
Richard Jenkins ’73 with Miranda Cox ’79 in the San Juan Islands.
Whit Wagner
wagner@clearbrookadvisors.com
Matt Dallett writes: “Wes Kinnear spent the summer of 2019 fishing his way from San Francisco across Canada to the Maritimes. Before he turned homewards, I collared him for a mini-reunion in Brooklin, Maine, with Alan “Bo” Chesney, James Caviston, and Mitch Wondolowski. A highlight was our trip on Bo’s yacht to visit Eagle Island Light, a 19th-century lighthouse now managed by friends of Bo, from which one can see across Eastern Penobscot Bay.”
(L. to r.) Jeff Randall ’74, Jenn Wiggin, Mila Hagerty, Henry Hagerty ’74, Nancy Randall, Tom Wiggin ’74, and Suzanne Pollak ’74 had breakfast in Charleston, S.C.
1974 formmates (l. to r.) Wes Kinnear, Alan “Bo” Chesney, James Caviston, Matt Dallett, and Mitch Wondolowski in Brooklin, Maine.
Owen Andrews
owenandrews1@gmail.com
Planning for our 45th reunion advances – I look forward to seeing you there. I was fortunate to see Kevin McCaffrey and John MacKenna for dinner and a concert in Boston in the fall. Both are thriving, and Kevin has embarked on a novel about robots which arrives in daily installments in people’s e-mail inboxes. Check with Kevin if you’d like to be included. I continue to work at Harvard and am in the midst of gutting and renovating an apartment on Museum Street in Cambridge – a project I hope will be done in 2020. My son, a junior at Franklin and Marshall, is majoring in computer science and philosophy and my daughter, a recent Brown graduate, is making sculptures and coaching parkour with groups of all ages in Cambridge and Somerville, Mass.
From Daphne Firth: “Last year was my year for travel adventures. These included two trips to our beautiful villa in St. Martin (one of which was a much-needed girlfriends weekend), a trip to New Zealand to spend some time with our daughter, who lives there – she is a horse trainer for a vacation activities company. A trip to London to see my sister and, last but not least, my dream trip to Nepal, Dubai, and India. First time to this area of the world and I highly recommend it. I trekked to Mt. Everest base camp (18,000 feet). While this was a significant physical challenge, I greatly enjoyed the rich cultural history of the Sherpa people and the incredible beauty of the Himalayas. Highly recommended for anyone who is relatively fit – virtually all of our group was 60+ years old. Dubai was a modern big-city experience, rich in Muslim traditions and lots of skyscrapers. India was amazing. I realized how ignorant I was of Indian history and how the Middle East/India region could have been very different, were it not for the Hindus’ proud, brave, and persistent defense of the maharajah kingdoms from the moguls. Yes – SPS instilled in me a lifelong love of learning. In between my travels, my husband and I enjoy spending time with our oldest daughter, Jenn, her husband, and our two grandchildren. Unlike her sister, who moved away as far as possible from her mom and dad, Jenn lives a mere four miles away. I am looking forward to sharing pictures of my incredible travels and catching up with all my formmates’ adventures at our 45th in May.”
Paul and Lucy Dean are thrilled to announce that their daughter, Laura Dean Grimaldi ’04, and her husband, Carmine Grimaldi ’04, had a son on October 25, Nicolas “Nico” Closson Grimaldi. Great- grandfather Burton Closson ’48 is equally excited. Paul and Lucy are looking forward to seeing everyone at the 45th.
Spencer B. Fulweiler
fulweilers@me.com
The holiday season brought back SPS musical memories at our local church on Christmas Eve, when Emma Fulweiler ’16 joined the choir and Lyra Fulweiler ’19 played cello in the string quartet. Family is the greatest gift. To celebrate a larger family, and to gather spirit for the Form of 1976’s 45th reunion in 2021, I will host a party at my house in Bar Harbor, Maine, on July 4. Please consider joining our formmates to celebrate not only our nation and the beauty of Acadia National park, but all the ties which bind us. Bring the whole family. Details will follow.
Alexis Johnson writes: “I was pleased and moved beyond imagination to see Chester Irons and Alison H. Zetterquist (and others) at the Service of Reconciliation and Repentance in May. That was a very moving and meaningful start on things to come – 2019 saw change at the School. The change was mostly good.”
A note from Valerie Minton Webster: “Excited to gather for our 45th reunion in 2021. This fall, I hosted more than 20 youth and their parents interested in the Cook Scholarship. Glad that after 11 years on the Cook Scholarship Board I can remain involved in this good work. Delighted too that Paulies from other states have initiated similar state-wide scholarships.”
From Alison Husting Zetterquist: “I’ve been enjoying working with Spencer on our 45th reunion and hope to see many of you at his Bar Harbor (Acadia National Park) party on July 4.”
Tilda Essig shares: “My exhibit, ‘Native Grasses of the Apache Highlands,’ just graced the walls of the new National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Neb., a full circle connection to the wonderful values in her writing which helped inspire the work. On the horizon for 2020 is a global digital collaboration with Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots groups, for the midnight minute display in Times Square. ‘From the page to the stage’ is my new motto, as I begin collaborations with choral music and dance, with harmony as the ultimate metaphor.”
Tilda Essig ’76 with director of the Times Square Alliance, Tim Tompkins, on New Year’s Eve.
(L. to r.) Nancy Weltchek ’78, Marc Robert ’78, Laura Bickford ’80, Sasha Iglehart ’78, and Richard Schloss ’78 in New York City, celebrating the birthdays of Sasha and Laura.
Nora Tracy Phillips
noratphil@aol.com
Jon Sweet
Jsweet1000@gmail.com
A note from Elsbeth Collins: “In the past year since the loss of my husband, I’ve been buoyed by visits from and to dear classmates and former teachers. It has given me great support as I craft my new life. Grateful.”
Jon Sweet writes: “Kudos to Nora Tracy Phillips’s cameo in Little Women. It was a treat to see her smiling face in the crowd exiting the theatre – classic Nora. My sons, Harrison ’21 and Owen ’20, are working diligently in their Fifth and Sixth Forms years and skating on the black ice on Lower School Pond – a brisk winter ahead.”
Andrew Rose shares: “In January, en route to Cambodia, my wife, Ann, our daughter, Louisa, Ann’s mother, and I had a fun dinner with Jane and Scott Elder and some of their friends in Bangkok.”
D.J. Mitchell shares: “I completed my M.Div. at Eastern Mennonite University in December. I’m now working to set up a ministry here in Harrisonburg, Va., working with people in recovery from addiction and related problems, including trauma, abuse, depression, and family dysfunction. The website is HealingRefuge.org.”