NEW CANAAN (CONNECTICUT) HIGH SCHOOL
Alumni from the 1950s through 1986
 

Following are online NCHS alumni who have contributed the material below.

Click anything underlined, and you can e-mail the person directly!
(Oct 1999) Mike Vitti and Gerry Anello were honored by the New Canaan Old Timers association at their annual September clambake. Vito Lapolla , who I believe was in the class of1956 was also honored.
             <fisher@bnfco.com>   Joe Fisher
(10 May 2006)  It took me this long to have my daughter take a picture of me; you'll have to check the yearbook to get an old picture. I met up with Lois Murero, Class of '62, and Carl Elsishans (my younger half-brother), Class of '67, and reminded them of you and our correspondence, and they both were super pleased to hear you were well and expressed their memories of admiration and respect. So, your admirers continue to grow. Nice feeling to have. So, continue to be well, and I hope not to lose touch.

Class of '58 - Several dozen of us met 20 Feb 2005 at Steve and Andee Gravereaux' house, the surprise guest being Warren Allen Smith.  He took the following photos and invites others to forward their bios, inquire about teachers (he is in contact with all retired New Canaan K-12 teachers), and to keep in touch with him at    wasm@mac.com

              



        

< rbriechle@aol.com > Robert Briechle

Well . . . one of us had to live in Ohio . . . I've been here for 28 years, crossing the Hudson (i.e. I moved WEST) to bring some measure of culture to the rubes out here but, alas, I became one of them . . . married, four grown kids, two grandchildren, one on the way . . . work for a small investment advisory firm that I co-founded 21 years ago . . . I pick stocks . . . they go up . . . I sell them . . . I buy more . . . publish an investment newsletter, a separate business, write for several investment newsletters, travel (New Zealand), played golf once for the last time, have enough CDs to start my own music store, cut my own wood, mow my own fields . . . well, I used to . . . sold the farm two years ago . . . now I live in the 'projects' surrounded by yuppiesŠcurrently somewhere between here and there . . . working with several classmates to bring about a 40th reunion for the class in early October . . . pass the word along . . . passing this way? (Hudson, Ohio on the Ohio Tpke, a little bit of New England in the Buckeye State) give a holler . . . write? I write back . . .

Chris DiScala Hussey, Carolyn Gardner Manrique, Karen Baxter Cooper, Bill O'Shaughnessy , and I are working as an informal committee to get the ball rolling for the 40th reuion, targeting the first week in October. I have a the mailing list from the 25th on the computer and am currently updating the information. New address? Send it to me!

< Pstpie3275@aol.com > Pat Coppola St. Pierre

Hi Bob, Bill, Karen, Carolyn, Chris, etc.

All of you sound as though you've had exciting lives. I've remained in Fairfield County. I've been married to my husband, Bill, for 30 years. (Actually, it's hard to believe it's been that long.) My three sons Bill, Scott, and Tim are still in this area.

Tim will be graduating from Johns Hopkins in December and Scott will be graduating from Fairfield U. within the next year.

I work in Wilton as an Administrave Assistant for STAR Residential. We're a not-for-profit Agency which finds housing for mentally disadvantaged adults.

I am still writing articles, short stories and poetry. I guess I'm waiting for that big break. I have published quite a lot of poetry and have won several poetry awards and a short story contest. I've also written for area newspapers. I belong to a local poetry group and we meet at Fairfield U. I was just contacted by the Hour to write some feature articles for them. All of this said and done, I have WASM our old English teacher, to thank. If it weren't for his encouragement, I never would have pursued writing.

We have a chalet on a lake in Washington, New Hampshire. It's gorgeous there and we spend as much time as we possible. I noticed from the class roster that Linda Harding lives in Claremont, NH. That's only 1/2 hour from me so I'll have to look her up.

I recently got a new computer and I'm on the net a lot.Would love to hear from any of you. I think it's great about the reunion! work (203) 762-0089, ext. 21; fax (203) 762-0240 - call first

< jdavis@mitre.org > Jean Davis --e-mail address is no good Dec 1999

Hi Class of '58

I can't believe that it has been 40 years and how the time has flown!! I will certainly be at the 40th ( God willing) and Betsy Granholm Kutscher will be with me as she lives only a few miles down the road here in VA where both of us have spent most of our time since 1958.

I have remained single through the years but have had a wonderful, full, and busy life and can truly say it has been a good ride!! I worked in the medical field, mainly orthopaedics, for some years and then switched completely to working accounting and finance for a firm here in VA for the past 20 years. I am now very much looking forward to retiring come May of 1999. Then I can be free from the every-day work environment, which has certainly changed in the past few years, and do more fun things like being able to enjoy a beautiful sunny day like today.

My sister Jan Davis Gillum class of '60 also lives here in VA. She married an Arizona guy and they had two children. Their son is now married with two children and another one on the way and a daughter who is not married. Both are living and working in the VA, Maryland area. Both my sister and her husband are retired from their jobs. They now enjoy their grandchildren and a second home in the country in PA.

It is good to see all the responses from fellow classmates on both the high school homepage and the homepage for our class reunion. Thanks to all who are putting so much effort into the reunion. See you in October!!!!

 cgm1294@yahoo.com > Carolyn Gardner Manrique

(1999)I currently am doing volunteer work in desert archaeology (Tucson area). While a southern California resident, I received commendations as newsletter editor for an Audubon chapter and volunteer naturalist group. Graduated from Smith College in 1962 (English major) and worked in the life insurance business, writing and editing technical material. Married to Daniel Manrique (an opera singer, astronomer, and birder) for over 30 years. Have son and daughter, ages 21 and 19 as of 1998. Witnessed the 1994 total solar eclipse from Iguazu Falls on Brazil-Argentina border. Traveled to Spain in 1996 to seek out Daniel's roots and plan to return in the near future.

(2003) I finally retired officially in 2003, having spent a year managing a bed and breakfast inn in southeastern Arizona, and am gleefully receiving Social Security. Daniel and I have built an addition onto our house near Tucson and are looking forward to more traveling in South America and Europe. Our biggest adventure so far: in 2001 we hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu and explored the Peruvian rainforest. Son Darrell is living in New York and daughter Alicia in Atlanta. No marriages or grandchildren yet. I'd like to hear from any NCHS alum.

< cynnorth@aol.com > Cynthia Janis Northgraves - e-mail no good Feb 2005

Little history to report, but I've been in Massachusetts--neighboring town to Dick Haberman--for 30 years. Same spouse, Bill Northgraves from Cape Elizabeth. He enlisted and we were off to Georgia for three years and we had two children on Uncle Sam. Son Bill, 36, Bowdoin '84, is Eastern Regional Sales Manager for Furon Corp. He and wife, Nancy, have two daughters, Grace (5) and Abigail (1) and live nearby in Natick, MA. Daughter, Debbie, 35, Boston College '86, R.N., married to John Mahoney, a pilot with Southwest Airlines--they live in Litchfield Park, AZ, with 3 sons: Drew (6), Sean (5), and Jack (2). Youngest son, Peter, 29, Boston College '91, is single and lives in Atlanta, Georgia--works as a sales rep for Carolina Boot selling to wholesalers in Georgia and SC. Imagine a Yankee selling to rednecks! He loves it.

We are in the process of winterizing our summer cottage of 30 years on Coffee Pond in casco, ME. It's a treasure on a quiet lake . . . pure gold. We have our grandchildren all summer, which keeps us young.

We've done some traveling: Italy, Ireland, and coast-to-coast US many times. My trip to Italy was with my church choir (we"re VERY good!), and we sang a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica. I spoke to the Pope in very bad Polish, and he took my hand and said to me in English. "American!" Soooo - yes, I'm still singing.

My husband is National Sales Manager for Merritt Technologies, a company that manufactures extruded plastic products, plastic eye glass frames, signage material, and dice for the gaming industry out of Berlin, CT.

I'm working 4 days a week/academic year in the Political Science Dept. of Wellesley College. This satisfies my interest in academia, and it's a very stimulating place. You can imagine the discussions going on these days--one of our professors was Hillary's "mentor"! Have done some traveling

My folks are still in New Canaan and are well at 87 years. I've been my college class secretary since my 1960 graduation, publish a family newspaper, and keep in touch by the written word with many. Thanks for the opportunity to communicate.

< PKS_jaw@pacbel.net > Paulette Kobbe Souza now lives in Watsonville, CA--EMAIL RETURNED DEC 1999

< MacKayDon@aol.com > Donald MacKay

Greetings! I hope to make the 40th and see you there. I'm now at POB 286, Rancho Santa Fe, California 92067 (619) 756-3313 and fax (619) 759-1839.

< jpomfret@suffolk.lib.ny.us > John F. Pomfret

(3 July 2004) John died on July 2, 2004. Becky at 391 Main Street, Setauket, NY 11733, and his family can be contacted at (631) 357-3984. /s/ Bob Briechle

(1998)  Greetings fellow classmates NCHS 1958! It's been a while but here we are about to assemble at the 40th reunion.

Somehow I ended up becoming an Industrial Arts teacher in the Three Village School District in Stony Brook, LI, NY, for 29 years. I also taught in Oswego, NY, for 1 year and Lake Ronkonkoma, NY, for 1 year. I taught electronics, drafting, architecture and CAD over the 31-year career. Amateur radio was always part of my curriculum and always made life interesting in the classroom. At the end of my career computers and CAD were the new fun things. I retired in June of 1996 and enjoy retirement very much. I have managed to survive the past two winters by being in a warm place 2 weeks per month for Jan. Feb., Mar. and Apr. having spent time in Florida, The Grenadines, St. John USVI, and Acapulco. Is a rough life but someone has to do it...

My wife's name is Becky and we have 2 children: Jessica, who will be 25 at the end of May; and David who is 20. Jessica received her masters in Physical Therapy from Boston University and is now a PT at St. Luke's Hospital, Spokane, WA, in the brain trauma unit. David is a sophomore at Bucknell University, a good student and has broken and now holds the life- time record in both the indoor and outdoor pole vault event as a member of the Bucknell Track and Field Team. He also throws the javelin. While in high school he brought home the gold metal in the decathlon event in the 1995 NYS Empire Games.

As a family we spent 20 summers living on St. John, USVI. Becky is also a teacher (elementary health) and summers off were well spent in the Caribbean. We also lived on a sailboat in St. Lucia in the West Indies before David was born; Jessica was only 1 year old. We have not been back to the VI the past 2 summers as David is now a life guard on Long Island but we have managed to get to St. John for a couple weeks in the winter the past two years.

I have joined the reunion "committee" and have enjoyed using the computer search engines to find most of the class of 1958. We will circulate a list, shortly, of those we have not been able to locate in hopes that someone will come forth with new information on the where abouts of those "missing soles". I am looking forward to the reunion and renewing old friend ships and perhaps making a few new ones. Best regards to all.

John F. Pomfret, W2AAF, Retired, 20 Midwood Road, Stony Brook, LI, NY 11790-1006     Voice Tel: 1-516-751-8236; FAX Tel: 1-516-751-7381

< wsmith@unm.edu > Warren S. Smith

Hi to my old English teacher, Warren Allen Smith. I keep running across his name from internet and library lists (next to my own), and when I see it connected with Humanist publications I know it has to be my old teacher. I have been a Classics professor at the University of New Mexico for many years. One of my fields of publication has been Erasmus, the famous Christian humanist, who thus provides a marginal tie-in with your own research.

Class of '59

    <pdpurdy@yahoo.com> Pamela Chatterton Purdy

Pam and Penelope were twins. Pam, who taught art from the kindergarten to college levels, took early retirement in 1995. She is the author of Beyond the Babylift (1987), which is the story of her adopted Vietnamese son, Hoang Quan Nyguyen.

In correspondence with Mr. Smith, she told of adopting in 1971 another son, Ronald Purdy, an African American who has an M.A. from Columbia and who works for Calvin Klein in New York City. She also has two biological daughters, Kristen (who works for Harvard School of Public Health) and Jessica (who has her M.F.A. in poetry and creative writing from Emerson).

Pam fondly remembers (as will her classmates Andrea Cousins, Linda Smith, Scott Alsop) the time that the boys at school all grew beards when Castro came into power. Headmaster Harold Kenney wore a fake beard to school one day and, at the end of the day, announced over the intercome that now ALL the beards were to be removed.

(May 2005)

Some of us, class of '59, have been reminiscing about the choreleers and wonderful Mrs. Jane Hilton. Years ago I attempted to get her address, so I wrote to my cousin in New Canaan. I wanted to express to Mrs. Hilton what a wonderful teacher she had been and the positive influence she had been on my life. Unfortunately, she had died about a year before I could write to her. Scott Alsop <csalsop@earthlik.net> shared a memory recently that I thought should be shared on your NCHS web-site:

Mrs. Hilton was an incredibly daring woman.  Only a handful of us could read music and, somehow she taught us these very complex pieces, eight part harmony and all . . . and a cappella, for pete's sake! I think of her often with great admiration.

It was 1958.  The Choraleers participated with other groups in an event for a convention of Superintendents of School.  The keynote speaker was this Senator from Massachusetts called, what was it now?  Oh yes:  John F. Kennedy!  None of us was really paying much attention but two years later, Kennedy ran for and won the Presidency.  I was at Michigan State and saw him speak at the Student Union.  I remember thinking, "This is the guy who spoke in Boston!"

Anyway, some of us were running around the halls of the hotel most of the night.  I decided to take a little nap before getting on the bus.  When I woke up and went downstairs, there was no bus, no Choraleers -- nothing - except me and the 50 cents in my pocket.  I bought a newspaper, read it, thinking, "They'll miss me and come back."  Nope.  So I called home, got the number of Nick England, called him, and got train fare home.

What had happened was that when they did roll-call on the bus, Steve Scott answered twice.  Mrs. Hilton, opportunistic as always, had booked a concert on the way home.  When everybody was lining up to sing, they noticed there was one less first bass, namely me.  Can't remember much else, except on the next day of school, I had a lot of 'splaining to do!

<>(February 2005)
NCHS ’59 update from Pamela Chatterton-Purdy

I was so sorry to have missed the 45th reunion of the class of ‘59. I hear Mr. Smith made a surprise appearance!

After retiring from teaching art for 30 years and opening The Mildred Walker House, I haven’t done the B&B for 5 years now. Although I had fun and sold much of my art off the walls, I am now fully into my painting, represented on Cape Cod by the STAR Gallery in Orleans. My web site, http://www.chatterton-purdyart.com

After the publication of my book Beyond the Babylift, A Story of Adoption (Abingdon Press, 1987) -which, although out of print, can still be obtained through http://www.Alibris.com - I was honored to have been published again in 2000 in an anthology of Cape women writers called A Sense of Place, edited by Anne Garton (Shank Painter’s Press). My accepted piece is titled, "Sister Sally Loved to Death." Sally died in1997 and is the second sister I have lost. My twin sister and I remain, dealing with our heartbroken mom of 94. I always remember what wasm said in class, “Write what you know."

My cousin, Ron Donahue, mentions that my twin sister Penelope (class of ’58)  did a TV show on dieting - that is incorrect. Her public access show was on spiritual healing, where she had guests such as Bernie Segal, Robert Haskell, Robert Holden, and Jimmy Twyman. She has worked with Prader-Willi Syndrome clients at The Latham Centers in Brewster and has developed a program for these young adults called the “Latham Players." With Penelope’s experience in music and dance, they perform all over Cape Cod. She is currently developing “Theater of Living” workshops to train the staff of the disabled.

I do hope to attend our 50th reunion but am saddened to read about all those this class has lost.

 
With sincere and fond memories, Pamela Chatterton- Purdy.

< DCort@compuserve.com > David Cort

My wife and I were just in Detroit to attend her 30th HS reunion, and that inspired me to look up NCHS. I was quite surprised to find the website and "Warren Allen Smith." (I loved his bio!)

I'm in San Pedro, California, near the ocean. I have been back out here in California for a long time, after getting out of the Air Force in Kansas, whooppee! I was originally from California, lived in Manhattan Beach first, my dad worked for Douglas Aircraft, we moved every few years. Have only been back to New Canaan a couple of times, the last time right after a hurricane which blew trees down all over the place, and you had to drive around the wires, etc. I never did attend any reunions, but I would love to.

I've been married to Carol for 15 years and have one daughter in her 30s as well as two grandkids (embarrinsgly old grandkids) from a "previous." . . . Carol and I have two dogs and one boat instead of kids. We both sail and we race and cruise our boat and others. I have been on many yacht races to Mexico, Hawaii, and even Newport to Bermuda once. Carol just got her long distance sailing inauguration, sailing with me on a friend's boat on a race from Marina Del Rey, California, to Puerto Vallarta.

I have my own business doing computer network consulting and Windows/database programming: Pacific Edge Systems, Inc.

I have written to Holly Newcomb, Pam Chatterton, and Kent Smith. It almost sounds like we could form a California Chapter and hold a meeting in a phone booth. Drop me a line. It would be great to hear from anyone from our school.

<>      <spgarg@optonline.net>     Stephen Gravereaux

        < newcombh@vcss.k12.ca.us > Holly Newcomb - e-mail no good Nov 2005
 I work for the Conejo Valley Unified School District, but not as a teacher. I am the Personnel Analyst responsible for recruiting the 800+ classified employees. I have been in California for the better part of 34 years. Moved out here in '65, spent 2 years in Atlanta (76/77) and love it.  I've got two children, 27 and 22. The 27-year-old, Jennifer, is a high school math teacher in Orange County; and my son, Paul, is a senior at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I've been married to Rich Guske for the past 5 years. It's fun being a newlywed at this stage of life.  I have been back to class reunions over the years and have really enjoyed the excuse to come back to New Canaan. It is one of the most beautiful spots in the world. None of my family lives there any more. My 87-year-old dad is living in Lima, Peru. Would love to hear from any classmates. Where are you all?

< ksmith1798@aol.com > Kent Smith

I'm married with two teenage children. Recently sold my retail business, and I am in the process of moving to California.

< worklinda@hotmail.com > Linda Starr Smith Work

Dear Mr. Smith: I was in the class of 1959 whom you may remember as being a good friend of Andrea Cousins, girlfriend of Lon Clark, and friend of Fritz Eager and Ted Thompson, to name just a few. Or maybe you'll recall I once wrote a story about a woman dying a virgin, which was rejected (censored) by the literary magazine. I was also art editor for the '59 yearbook.

I am in touch with Ted Thompson and wife Mary Hart, who live in San Francisco. I've lost touch with Lon but believe he's had four wives, at least two also named Linda. Haven't spoken to Andrea for about three or four years--she's a therapist living in Amherst, Mass. Do you have any news of Jim St.Clair? I last saw him at a gathering in his honor maybe five or more years ago, I can't recall the year. Sarah Cousins had come all the way from Israel to see him. I would love news of Scott Alsop. I remember the Castro beards and liberating the milk machine and early morning Greek classes (the soul is deathless) and sneaking out at night with Peter Dixon and his dozer duels and taking down the Sunset Ridge streetsign to prove that "nothing is constant" as well as learning footnotes and Bernice's provoking admonition to "make it bigger and hang it from the ceiling." I'm still trying.

I saw you on TV some months ago, promoting your Who's Who in Hell, and it took me back to the days of the Druid Club and eating chocolate-covered ants.

I am retired, have been single since 1983, and have been living in the center of Mexico for the past four years. I would love to be in touch with any classmates or teachers. I have three grown children. Matt is an internet guy, doing well despite the downturn, and he is married to a beautiful Mexican architect living in San Francisco. Molly, my adopted El Salvadorean daughter, is working as an assistant social worker in group homes for the retarded. Benjamin has been teaching art and coaching at the Maret School in Washington, DC, and he will apply to architecture schools next year.

I am busy administering a church-sponsored nursery school for poor children as well as filling my house with relatives and artists. I am trying to leave my lawyering and mediating days behind me, hoping to return to my first love of art and design inspired by the late Bernice Hall and the late Al Jacobson. San Miguel has two art and craft schools which welcome older students. The high desert light has inspired artists for many years. There is a truly spiritual quality in the stark hills and big sky.!

 

Class of '60 -- 40th Reunion (first-ever) will be held in New Canaan

Memorial Day Weekend, May 26 to 28, 2000. For further details, get in touch with Judy Johnson Corfield, 103 Brookfield Lane, Geneva, IL 60134 (630) 232-1415 fax (630) 232-1349

E-mail: corfield@ix.netcom.com --address no good June 2000

 

< ronaym@aol.com > Ronay Arlt Menschel

<GCarlson@Mail.Psychiatry.SUNYSB.Edu> Gaye Arakelian Carlson - e-mail no good Nov 2005

[is on the faculty of the school of medicine and director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook]

< mkatz@wesleyan.edu > Marilyn Arthur Katz

< barkerk@erols.com > Kent Barker and Lissa Couch Barker - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< kgemmett@aol.com > Kendra Baxter Gemmett - e-mail no good Nov 2005

It has been nearly 40 years since the class of 1960 was last together. Lauren Dunbar, Judy Johnson Corfield, and I are trying to pull something together for our very first reunion, to take place in the year 2000. We have already had a lot of help from classmates near and far, and we keep adding to the list. Please contact one of us if you happen to read this and we will add your name to the growing list of "found" classmates.

I live in Spencerport, New York (just west of Rochester), where my husband, Bob, and I have lived and raised our four children for the past 34 years. Bob is a professor of English at the State University of New York, College at Brockport. I am a school library media specialist in an elementary school in Brockport. We now seem to spend all our free time flying around the globe visiting our children--all single, and living on both coasts.

< velozmk@linex.com > Mary Blood Veloz - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< resrn@tiac.com > Christopher Loring Chase

< barkerk@erols.com > Lissa Couch Barker

< crgillum@msn.com > Janice F. Davis Gillum

< ladunbar@ifn.net > Lauren Dunbar -e-mail no good Nov 2005

< beej1942@aol.com > Betty Haywood has been an anesthesiologist in Little Rock, AK. However, in 2002 she has become a Colonel in the USAF MC--address:  Col. Betty Haywood, USAF MC, 2401 Kelly Dr. 360616, Lockland AFB, TX 78236-6006 - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< alholly@hsnp.com > Albert Franklin Holly - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< irwin@cfun.com > William A. Irwin III - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< corfield@ix.netcom.com > Judy Johnson Corfield

< justiceid@aol.com > Allen D. Jones

< dkelsey@msn.com > < david.kelsey@premera.com > David Burnham Kelsey

There is something quite imposing about sitting down to write about myself. It was easy back at NCHS, for not much had happened then. Now it's a challenge! Now I am thinking, "Who cares" and "What would be interesting." Ah well, here goes.

My wife Judi (1st , for 36+years, and she says it ís a miracle) and I live outside Seattle, about 7 miles from my daughter, her husband, and our two grandchildren. It is great being a "Papa"! We also have a son who lives in Tahoe and is a professional Mountain bike racer - 2nd in the world in 1998! (To achieve that career and status we contributed the gene pool and 6 years of college!).

Greatest Achievement: Building a log home from scratch. Located on the shore of Cypress Island in the San Juan Islands, northern Pudget Sound. Its our piece of heaven.

Best Friend: Still Bill Irwin . Lives about 150 miles away in Vancouver, BC, and played a major role in the construction of the above mentioned cabin.

Great Athletic moments: 1). Played organized soccer until 40ish and too many "scopes" suggested it was time to quit. 2) Skied off a BIG cliff in Utah, landed poorly, bad back ever since! 3) Keeping up with my son on a bicycle (as long as it's flat or downhill).

Hobbies and avocations: Carving, gardening, civil war, grandkids, vocation, (intentionally listed after avocations) health care management, consulting, insurance, and managed care. Most always as a "peddler."

Witness Protection Program: We have lived in far to many places . . . much of our lives in escrow. When asked if we are in the military, Judi always replies, "Oh no, we are in a witness protection program". The blondes reply, "Really, that's interesting. I have never known anyone in that program."

Big deals I'm looking forward to: Our class reunion in 2000, the fact that I think I'll make it to 2000 (I used to daydream about this in school), and world travels with good friends.

< ohey@online.no > Sonja Lystad Heyerdahl

< jmather100@aol.com > Jerry Lee Mather

<j dmcdjr@bellsouth.net > John McDiarmid Jr. - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< milleraw@magpage.com > Barbara Joan Meyer Miller

< robantime@aol.com > Robert Binney Miller - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< fmorrow@mindspring.com > (The Rev) Thomas Gregory Morrow - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< maryellen.connell@osd.pentagon.mil > Mary Ellen Naylor Connell --bad address Dec 99

<vpackard@worldnet.att.net> Vance P. Packard

Strange as it may seem I did spend most of the last forty years in museums, although rarely on exhibit. My bizarre odyssey began in the fall of 1959 with a flat tire outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. But for the flat tire I would have spent all of about an hour looking at Franklin and Marshall, but because of the flat I had to spend the night at the college while the garage got a replacement tire. Since they showed me such a good time there I applied to F&M as my safety net school and as luck would have it it was the only place that would have me. Whatever plans I may have had to pursue some career faded after a semester or two; and after two years, I dropped out of school.

Eight months of manual labor drove me back to college but still with no real plan or goal. I majored in sociology because it was the only thing I had a good enough average to qualify. In the fall of 1963 some of my fraternity brothers thought it would be a cruel prank to drag me out to an archeological dig after a night of heavy drinking. It was the first interesting thing I did at college. The archeology labs were in the museum which was owned by the college but was a world apart. After a couple of months of digging and working on the artifacts, on a particularly gray and depressing day in late November I concluded that if I had to do something with my life, I should be an archeologist.

To that end I went to Chapel Hill, where I soon learned that they spelled it archaeologist. UNC was the only place that would have me and then only because they wanted my newly acquired wife, who was a brilliant student in classics. Graduate school was really hard work and the majority of classes were of very little interest to me, but I got to work in a museum again. Somehow I was able get a master's degree. It took three years, and the last two months required the most focused and concentrated effort of my life up to that time.

In the summer of 1968 I returned to Pennsylvania to excavate a large contact period site on the Susquehanna River. This was really fun and I got to drive really large bulldozers and ended up spending most of the next year working for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission at the State Museum. When their grant money ran out I returned to Chapel Hill to continue my education. This was not a happy time. The anthropology department was also out of grant money or at least would not invest anymore in me, so I ended up working as a computer programmer for a while.

By the end of April 1970 I had had enough. I packed my car up and headed north. I had no interest in further academic activity. Twelve days later they killed the kids at Kent State and UNC canceled final exams and, since the grades for all of my courses that semester were based entirely on the final exam, I got all high honors: the pinnacle of my scholastic career. I took that as a sign and did go back the next year to take my doctoral exams, which I barely squeaked through. I had gotten to the last day of the exams and came to a physical anthropology question I could not answer. I figured that I had blown it and went in to the proctor's office; he was also my faculty advisor. I told him that I was leaving because I could not write for two hours on a theory that I had never thought was more than a historical curiosity. He said put that down. I guess he did not think much of the question either.

In August of 1970 a full time position as a Preparator in Natural History at the State Museum in Pennsylvania opened up and, though it was not exactly what I wanted, it was real money and allowed me to do some of the things I liked to do. About two weeks after I started I was asked by the Curator of History and Technology for help dissembling a grist mill and moving the parts to the museum. They had gotten bids from a rigger but could not afford it. I had never done anything like that but I figured if someone else thought it could be done I could do it.

As it turned out this was a pivotal point in my career. From then on when anybody at the Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) had a mechanical problem that they could not afford to solve through conventional channels they came to me. And still do even though I have been retired for three years.

After about four months as a preparator, I was promoted to Curator in Archeology and set off to understand a relatively obscure prehistoric culture in south central Pennsylvania. Unfortunately the departmental budget would only allow for one modest excavation each summer and there were three archaeologist. Faced with the prospect of spending a summer in the lab, I asked my boss if I could go into the field so long as I found my own money. He laughed and said sure. He was right, there wasn't any money to do anthropological archeology, but in the period leading up to the 1976 Bicentennial there was a ton of money for historical and industrial archeology. The fieldwork was similar and I found it more rewarding, intellectually, to validate my findings with the historical record rather than anthropological theory. I spent three years digging soldiers' huts and officers' quarters at Valley Forge, gristmills, forges iron furnaces and sawmills. It was great fun. I was the first state archeologist to hire women to do fieldwork. My colleagues insisted they could not handle the shoveling. My marriage dissolved and my life apart from work was fairly unstable. In 1975 the PHMC transferred me from the Archeology section of the State Museum to the fairly new Office of Historic Preservation. Ostensibly this was to meet a federal mandate and I was supposed to continue doing fieldwork, but very quickly I found that there was not enough time to do both. I was fairly unhappy about it until I discovered the that the women in Historic Preservation were a lot better looking and there were a lot more of them.

In the seventies there was very little acceptance of history or archeology as elements in the planning process. It was very difficult to convince state and federal agencies that the plans that they had spent a decade developing were not acceptable because the failed to take into account historic sites. We did not win often but we inflicted a lot of pain. I often tell the story about when the managers of South Africa's Kugerand National Park decided to fence the whole park to protect it. Naturalists from all over the world were appalled and thought that the fences would kill and maim countless animals. It took the lions about two weeks to teach the rest of the animals to stay away from the fences. That was my job in preservation.

By 1979 I was worn out. Preservation was a never-ending battle, it seemed. The only way you could stop fighting to save a site was to have it destroyed or become part of a governmental historic system. With that in mind I took the job as director of the Commisssion's Drake Well Museum.in Titusville. I never worked harder and never enjoyed anything else as much. I spent five years building industrial period room exhibits that actually worked. The site was alive with the sounds and smells of the oil industry. My personal life settled down somewhat, and I married a lawyer whom I had met while trying to stop HUD from tearing down every house in the Susquehaana valley after the 1972 flood. She was their planner and we fought up and down the river.

Perhaps because I was four hours away from Harrisburg and rarely caused much trouble they made me the regional director for western Pennsylvania. I resisted the change until they made it clear that if I did not accept the job I would not be very happy with any of the other possibilities. The job wasn't that bad and it fit well with my limited attention span and since I worked out of Drake Well and was able to avoid hiring a director for there for two years I remained reasonably content and productive. But alas it was not to last. In 1987 the Commission got a new Executive Director who after the requisite six months of blaming the previous Director for the agency1s problems reorganized. My job was moved to Harrisburg. I was able to resist the move until December of 1989, in part because I was needed to oversee the restoration of the Flagship Niagara that was under way in Erie, and because I was willing to drive 700 miles a week and spend a lot nights in motels.

The next three years were the worst since graduate school.The work was neither fun nor meaningful. I was in charge of more than a dozen historic sites and museums, but was fairly well separated from their daily existence. I was also having to live alone in Harrisburg at least four days a week. My wife and I had bought a house in the Poconos because neither of us wanted live in Harrisburg again. During the week I lived close to the museum in a miserable little apartment that was so terrible that my wife would get a motel room when she came to town on business. After three years of hell I managed to appoint myself to the job as director of a complex of three anthracite related museums and an historic iron furnace site. I did this without even taking a cut in pay to the chagrin of my bosses. But the work was rarely fun even though there was a lot of construction and mechanical parts of it. I had originally planned to retire a age 50 but with the forced transfer to Harrisburg I could not afford it. The move to Bear Lake was expensive and the cost of living is higher here than it was in Titusville. By 1997 we had stabilized our financial situation and I retired the week I turned 55.

I live in a wonderful albeit remote place (we have to go toward town to hunt). I still work on historical projects that interest me and do some consulting and exhibit fabrication work. During the nearly 30 years that I worked for the Commission I also managed to become a fairly good machinist. I have a machine shop that is larger than most people's homes. I still do some woodwork and have another building devoted to that. I tend to have several projects going at once to satisfy my insectine attention span.

As I reread this I am struck by how much of my life has been directed by either factors that were out of my control or by seemingly inconsequential decisions I made long ago. It is also clear that my inability to type without looking at the keys or to write legibly without a lot of care, which so restricted my academic career, forced me to learn to think quickly and speak clearly. I rarely ever got more than a B- on anything written but I always Aced the Orals. It must have something to do with eye hand coordination.

< judkolwicz@aol.com > Judith Peterson Kolwicz

< pbagency@worldnet.att.ne t> Linda Marie Peterson

< dpomfret@ns.gemlink.com > David George Pomfret - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< tgcs@compsol.net > Suzanne Quintard Greene - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< harveyr@cybertours.com > Harvey Lee Rohde Jr. - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< tonislim1@aol.com > Marie (Toni) Schettino Slimak

< hsmi1964@aol.com > Herbert Briggs Smith

< pksmith@cshore.com > Peter Kearns Smith - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< guncasupe@aol.com > Don Souden

< pdr68@aol.com > Priscilla D. Spring Roehm - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< litigate@worldnet.att.net > Rita Suffredini Lapcevic - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< corbtaylor@aol.com > Bruce Aitken Taylor

< btitus@rbdlaw.com > Bruce Earl Titus

< spncrhoutx@worldnet.att.net > Barbara Williamson Friedman

< baking@ziplink.net > Sallyann Wood King - e-mail no good Nov 2005

Class of '61

        < chipello@earthlink.net > Paul Chipello

        <tadd@home.com > Tad Dillon - e-mail no good Nov 2005

Reviewing other bios I am struck by the embarrassing shallowness of my life since ushered from the halls of NCHS. Highlights: BS psychology, married, advertising career, three children, divorced, retired to raise three children, in search of extra terrestrial intelligence.

Missed opportunities: Witness the 1994 total solar eclipse from Iguazu Falls on Brazil-Argentina border; summer regularly in St. John, USVI; teach Classics at the University of New Mexico; race a boat from Marina Del Rey, California to Puerto Vallarta; study at the University of Munich; be an Air Traffic Controller; attend Medical School in Stockholm; do research at the Astronomical Observatory, University of Copenhagen; have a listing in Who's Who in American Law.

Vivid memory: While driving to school on a snow comforted Farm Road in the winter of '60-'61, a car I was about to pass deliberately stopped in front of me forcing a slippery retreat to the bottom of the hill. The offending vehicle proceeded back up the hill, its driver gesturing in victory. I will reveal no names, but those of you familiar with an MG-piloting English teacher...

        That's 181 words. Is it long enough?

        < spncrhoutx@worldnet.att.net > Spencer Friedman

< wdgardner@earthlink.net > William D. Gardner - e-mail no good Nov 2005

Shortly after completing high school, I joined the Army to see the world. I got lucky. Uncle Sam sent me to Europe where I played Cold War games within range of Soviet soldiers at the Czech border. Along the way I learned to speak German, and I started college at the University of Maryland military extension in Munich. My friends in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland still host me during frequent vacations in Europe.

In 1968, I earned a B.A. in psychology with a minor in German at Ohio Northern University (in the village that manufactures Wilson footballs). Junior year was at the University of Munich in a joint program with Wayne State University. That year tremendously helped my fluency in Teutonic expression. After a two-year academic break crunching numbers for Pepsi-Cola's marketing department on Park Avenue, I headed back to Ohio Northern to become a lawyer. I graduated in 1973.

After law school, I worked in a couple of law firms before taking a job with Ansor Corporation in New York, where I was Assistant to the President. Ansor was an arm of the Soriano Group of the Philippines. My assignments were largely public relations and quasi-diplomatic efforts to keep the Marcos government happy. When that company folded, I headed back to my native Los Angeles to be close to my father and his new family.

In Los Angeles, I took a job with a company that agreed to pay for graduate business school. In 1983, an M. B. A. was conferred upon me at Pepperdine University. Yes, that is the school in Malibu that used to host the "Battle of the Network Stars." It was actually an excellent people management program. In 1985, I went to work with West Publishing Company promoting its online legal and business information service to the legal profession, and getting my first exposure to the use of e-mail.

West and I parted ways in early 1997. In the interim, I have learned to play the guitar, taught a law school class, studied the entertainment business at the UCLA Extension, started writing a spy novel, joined the board of directors of a non-profit corporation, dabbled in the international toy business, and advised an independent motion picture company in finance. I am still defining my career and family plans.

Memberships and affiliations: Listed, Who's Who in American Law; Member, New York State Bar Association; Member, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International and Los Angeles Alumni Chapter; Honorary Member, Philippine American Bar Association; Member, German American Chamber of Commerce; Member, Swiss American Chamber of Commerce; Member, Swedish American Chamber of Commerce; Member, Los Angeles-Berlin Sister City Committee; Charter Member, Museum of Contemporary Art; Member, Los Angeles Conservancy; Trustee, J. D./M.B.A. Association of Los Angeles, Inc.; Director, Forty Plus of Southern California, Inc.; Member, Bel Air Presbyterian Church. Address: P. O. Box 1863, Studio City, CA 91614-0863. Telephone: (818) 509-8990

 <DAGibb@aol.com> David Gibb
       (7 Nov 2005)  Yes, after nearly 50 years, it's still "Mr. Smith." I did enjoy our conversations at the Class of '61 40th reunion. And by the by, I was delighted, on a recent trip to little Janesville, WI, to find, prominently displayed on the reference desk, a copy of Celebrities in Hell.
    I did miss seeing Mr. David Maier at the reunion. Of course, my English teachers were my favorites -- you and he and Mr. Hallett -- were so encouraging, and that was my best subject. By far. Do you have a current address for Mr. Maier? Does he still cultivez son propre jardin?
    Thank you for the email info. I hope it encourages many responses.

    [It's J. David Maier, 309 West River Road, Orange, CT 06477.  If you write, tell him wasm said to get a Mac G5 and an email address. . . . Mr. Ronald Hallett disappeared the day he was fired.]
            <Jordan@oclc.org > Jay Jordan - e-mail no good Nov 2005

Colgate U, 1965, Major: English Lit. US Army 1966-1969, discharged as 1LT. Lived in Germany & France 1967-1971, Joined 3M Co in Germany and moved to Wash DC 1967-1974. Joined Information Handling Services 1974 as Sales Rep. Moved to the Netherlands 1976-1978 to set up Intl Distribution. Transferred to Corp HQ in Englewood, Co (Denver metro) 1978. Became VP Sales 1979, Exec VP 1984, President 1989 left after 23 years to accept President/CEO Online Computer Library Center, OCLC last year, 1998. OCLC serves 36,000 libraries in 67 countries with on-line cataloging and reference services. Located in Dublin, OH (Columbus metro). OCLC has 1200 employees and does $150-160 million in annual sales. Much travel around the globe which is a treat. Acquired working knowledge of French, German and Dutch, all very rusty now. Enjoy skiing, Harleys, fly fishing, wines, golf, SCUBA, and travel. Two grown children. Second marriage (10 years), wife 's name Mary. Still keep up with Stewarts, Woods, Natale, DiVenere, Reid and Hermes.

<jnield@mediaone.net> James M. Nield (class president) - e-mail no good Nov 2005

<>< bstark1099@aol.com > Bob Stark

< rcstewart@aol.com > Dick Stewart (and wife Casey)


Class of '62


< pfccons@bellsouth.net > Ken Amato

Am now living in Roswell (Atlanta), Georgia, 20 years after having lived in Spain; Florida (Pensacola, Tampa, and Jacksonville); Lexington, KY; and Houston, TX. Wife is Susan. Karyn is a junior at Auburn University. Son Jeff is a high school sophomore. For many years I have had my own small logistics/distribution consulting firm. Graduated from Parsons College in '66, Am a past Naval Aviation Officer. My hobbies include travel, cooking, writing, cars, motorcycles and aviation, computers, photography, gardening. I attended the class reunions of 20 and 34 years and enjoy keeping in touch with everyone.

(28 Oct 2004)  Changes - I'm divorced now with two grown and gainfully employed children (Karyn and Jeff). I attended the 40th reunion as well and visit New Canaan and NYC fairly often. Living with my very large German Shephard (Shadow) and terrorist cat (Kato, a k a the Pink Panther).

< nufstuff@mcn.org > Peter Black 

I continue the artistic pursuit up in Fort Bragg on the Mendocino Coast north of San Francisco, where I work as "the plumbing guy" in the local hardware store so that I can operate The Agenda Studio out of our little place off Myrtle Street and where I continue to record songs, fool around with graphics, and occasionally print up poems and short stories, some of which also appear on my wepage. Also, I can be reached at PO Box 1549, Fort Bragg, CA 95437.

< rbach1@PlanetAll.com > Robert Bach - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< lattelesli@aol.com > Jack Bradley and wife Leslie

< cbrand@neca.com > Robert Curt Brand - e-mail no good Nov 2005

<fewhite@mum.edu> Fauna (Carol Edwards) White

I've now been married 33 years, and my name has changed to Fauna White. I've lived all over the world: San Diego, Berkley, Seattle, Washington, DC, New York, Switzerland, even India! My husband and I both teach Transcendental Meditation (T.M.) for fun and do other things for a living! No kids. That's why we can be free to travel. We now live in Fairfield, Iowa, where the T. M. organization has a University and where about 2,000 Meditators live and meditate together. Fairfield is called "Silicorn Valley" because of all the internet, telephone, and hot start-ups that have been created here, so we don't just meditate--but we do meditate for success in our daily lives and for the pure fun of it.

Thanks to Mr. Smith for this web sight. I remember him driving that MG! I also remember in his class he taught that love and hate are not opposites, that indifference is the opposite. A nice thought, with a lot of nuances to contemplate.

< caseyb@mail1.nai.net > Don McGannon - e-mail no good Nov 2005

< rkodoc@gowebway.com > Richard K. Olson

The Advertiser article of May 7, 1998, mentioned us as "ex-graduates." Is not one who was (or should I say, is) a graduate, always a graduate? What is an "ex-graduate"? Meanwhile, I was greatly surprised to see the three stalwarts, in your collection, from my class of '62.

[WASM responds: Richard, ol' chap, you missed a vocab exam one February 23rd. I unilaterally am withholding your final grade until you complete the make-up exam. Sincerely, your ex-English teacher.]

: - )

< grae@gte.net > George Rae

Mr. Smith, it's been a long time. You may not remember (I'm not sure I do) that year I went to Greece for a weekend as a makeup for a poor class report. I tried to contact your alumni listing but was timed out. I'll keep trying until I get registered. I lost contact with everybody over the years. My sister (Donna '64) attended a class reunion in 1989, I think. I have never known of a reunion for the class of '62. I still remember your MG.

(Dec 1999) I visited Ken Amato in July, and he showed me pictures of the two reunions he attended. I wish I had known about them and am looking forward to the reunion in 2002. My youngest son (Todd) will graduate from the University of Florida this year (food resource economics) and go right into grad school (master of agri-business).

<spgarg@omailto:spgarg@optonline.net> Andrea ("Andee") Romako Gravereaux 

< ptwilson@email.msn.com > Peter T. Wilson - e-mail no good Nov 2005

Class of '63

< mdebary@lycosemail.com > Mikiel de Bary --address no good June 2000

I graduated from Yale College in '68. Was in the US Army 1966-1968 in Georgia; Texas; and Nuremberg, Germmany. Received in 1980 my MBA NYU GBA. Work with Marquette de Bary Co., Inc., New York City, as a securities broker-dealer (discount brokerage).

< JCRPO7A@prodigy.com > Frank Gaylord --address no good Dec 1999

< rbkelsey@aol.com > R. Bruce Kelsey - -address no good Jan 2000


< snimis@mediaone.net > Elizabeth Nimitz Smith - e-mail no good Nov 2005

Class of '64

< sandbar@anet-dfw.com > Sandy Bardes--address no good Dec 1999

Anthony "Jack" Williams lives in Santa Monica, CA. After being an outstanding athleteat NCHS, he graduated from the U of Miami and became a phys ed teacher. In New York City, he performed on the TV "soaps" for most of the 1980s. Presently, he lives in California,works in communication, and sells commercial fitness equipment to large hotel chains. (To get in touch, write to Ronald A. Donahue, 4200 Park Newport #407, Newport Beach, CA.)

<pd_hall@harvard.edu>  Peter Dobkin Hall

After graduation, I attended Reed College (mainly because it was 3000+ miles distant from home!). I managed to avoid being drafted and
received a doctorate in American history from SUNY- Stony Brook in 1973. In the history department at Wesleyan from 1974-82. At Yale,
first as postdoc in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies,  subsequently holding appointments in the School of Management, Divinity School, History Department, and Ethics, Politics and Economics Program. A founding member of Yale's Program on Non-Profit Organizations, the first academic center to study nonprofits. After three decades at Yale, Harvard's School of Government made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Have been Hauser Lecturer on Nonprofit  Organizations since 1/1999. Though I work in Cambridge, I live in New Haven with physician-spouse and 2 teenage children. Also have twentysomethings from earlier marriage.

I used to think that NCHS's motto, "What we are to be we are now becoming," was incredibly dumb. Now that I've more or less become whatever I'm gonna be, I credit it with a certain profundity. Especially so as I watch my girls undergo the process of becoming what they're going to be!

< AWMcD@aol.com > David McDiarmid

<bobp@utm.edu >    Robert D. Peckham
        Looking at my 1962 1964 Perannos, reading Amy Cousins poems from The Spectator, and listening to the dark newgrass melodies of Nickel Creek, I came across

NEW CANAAN (CONNECTICUT) HIGH SCHOOL - Alumni from the 1950s through 1986  <http://humanists.net/wasm/alum.htm>.
I thought I would try your address out to let you know that one more soul from those years still thinks fondly about what seemed carefree days, and about a man who was a kind homeroom teacher, and who seemed to understand a quiet kid, not always ready to be clever, even in Matt Coyle's class.  I ran cross-country after Ted Benedict graduated, and I published a poem or two in The Spectator.

I was not talented enough to follow many of my classmates into ivy league schools, but I did manage to graduate from Randolph-Macon College in 1968, Middlebury French School in 1971 and Pitt in 1977. I will always consider myself inspired by Wayne Newell, Robert Kennedy, and others to master French.

In 1979, I moved to Martin Tennessee to teach at the University of Tennessee-Martin, leaving only for a year in 1986 to serve as Visiting Distinguish Professor at USMA West Point. I am now a tenured Professor of French, currently serving a three-year term as national vice president of the American Association of Teachers of French. I really have almost no contact with any NCHS graduates, save Don Mitchell (1964), who is retiring from NSF, where he has played a key role in the development of the internet. I wince at the sad stories I have heard about other graduates.

Here in Tennessee, married to an Australian wife, I am raising a family.  My first-born left here for Middlebury, a National Merit Finalist, and I am already proud of what my daughters (9 and 15) have accomplished.

If you are there, please accept my gratitude others associated with NCHS for a formative experience, which has sustained me for over 40 years. Memories, factually accurate or not can be active ingredients.  You have given me memories and activated paths to rememoration.  I offer to you a poem about a mystery of memory, reliving a chunk of my recent past during a vacation:

Verba volant; Scripta manent

Morning sun rays
cannot fathom the shallow footprints
of a small child
on the beach.
These are the spirit song of the wonderer
marked with regular rhythm.
Its lyrics
whose whispered strains have never found paper
disappear with each wave,
neatly trimmed in a lace of foam.
Ah! but its melody escapes the proverb
and from far away
still lifts my soul.


Robert D. Peckham, PhD
Director, the Globe-Gate Project
Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
Vice President, American Association of Teachers of French
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Univ. of Tennessee-Martin


Class of '65

< gcody99@email.msn.com > George Cody - e-mail no good Nov 2005

This will have to suffice for the paper I never turned in back in high school. I am still working on that group study assignment (submitted by Seward Allison); "Discuss the uses, application, and effect of the Hegelian dialectic as it applies to Wordsworth's early children's poetry."

Actually there are about a dozen class of 65'ers still here in New Canaan. The rest of us are just as varied as the rest of this group. We try to reune every five or ten years, so I suppose we'll have to do something in 2000 for the 35th (that sounds bad enough to wait for our fourtieth).

I like to think of the class of '65 as some sort of watershed year, but I suppose we just got hurled into reality a little harder, a little faster, a little farther.

< CTTchRtr@aol.com > Harrison (Terry) Coombs 

I was in the Class of '65 NCHS and also a South School teacher 1969-1999.

After retiring last June I moved to 4410 Dolwick Drive,Durham, NC 27713. I am working three days a week at Lowe's Home Improvement Center.My son,Derek (Class of "95 NCHS), is currently working on his masters in epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta. He also works 20 hours a week at The Center for Disease Control. He will marry Kristen Taylor of Atlanta in July. They both plan to apply to PHD programs.

Class of '66

< btcritter@aol.com > Dan Burnett --I changed my last name of Bulakites to Burnett about 22 years ago = e-mail no good Nov 2005

I graduated from New Canaan High School in 1966 and to my knowledge there has been only one reunion, in 1986. I was not able to make it to that gathering and have regretted it for years. I do still keep in contact with one member of my graduating class, who lives in the New Canaan area.

After graduating, I went to Bradley University for 2 1/2 years before dropping out to join the USAF. I spent 6 1/2 years in the Air Force as an Air Traffic Controller and was sent to Vietnam and England, among other assignments. I then left the USAF to become an Air Traffic Controller in the FAA, spending 5 1/2 years there until I made the mistake of my life by going on STRIKE Aug. 3, 1981. I was fired from the only profession I had known and spent the next fifteen years working at many different, yet unfulfilling, sales positions (some even paying rather well). Then in August 1996 I had the opportunity to get back into Air Traffic Control, and I am now working at Fullerton Tower in Southern California. As you can probably tell, this is a professional I truly love.

On a personal note, I am married (my second) and have 3 children, 2 by my first wife (a daughter 23, a son 20). And a son, 7, by my current wife. In August I will become a grandfather for the first time.

< galactic@pcez.com> Brian H. Kelsey - e-mail no good Nov 2005

RE: Vito Lapolla

From: BChros@aol.com [Barbara Batterson Chrostowski]

Mike Vitti and Gerry Anello were honored by the New Canaan Old Timers association at their annual September clambake. Vito Lapolla, who I believe was in the class of1966 was also honored.

<pmethol@adinet.com.uy> Monica Methol

[Mr. Warren Allen Smith has kept in touch with Monica and her brother, Bill, over the years. Classmates will recall that their mother was Mrs. Reyna Piola, the Spanish teacher. Monica is a part-time teacher in Uruguay, and Bill is working in the Hollywood, California, area.]

<Bill_Methol@warnerbros.com> Bill Methol

<bvandorn@tiac.net> Elizabeth Nimitz Van Dorn - e-mail no good Nov 2005

Hamilton Wesley Watt

Hamilton Wesley Watt, guitarist, record producer, and current owner of the Country Rose Saloon, can be contacted by writing to him directly at 2513 S. 8th Street, Sheboygan, WI 53081

He is particularly interested in locating classmate Jack Johannson.

Class of '67

<jalepeno4@qwest.net>  Michael S. Baker
    [28 Oct 2005] Mr. Smith received an e-mail from Michael, who has been an English teacher, has a son who is a freshman at Penn, and now is in Portland, Oregon.  He'd like to hear from his classmates]

< rbeyer@bellsouth.ne t> Rodger Beyer -- address no good Jan 2000

     Hi to all my former schoolmates at NCHS. I was in the class of '67 but know a lot of you all in '66 and '68. I am still single (still have not yet given up hope), live in a suburb of New Orleans, and work for DaimlerChrysler. Haven't decided if I will go gray before I go bald. Love to hear from anyone, as I only see or hear from about four I knew from school.
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    <csdorgan@JonesDay.com> Caroll Dorgan
       I told my children at dinner last night about one of the memorable elements of your AP English class at NCHS  -- viz., the requirement that one submit a rejection slip from a periodical -- and how, as you told the story, one student nearly failed the class because he/she had procrastinated throughout the year and then finally submitted a manuscript near the end of the year, only to receive the bad news that the manuscript was accepted!  [wasm:  Yep, it was about the chap's MG and was sent to some Australian car magazine!]
    That led me into describing the thought-provoking project in which you distributed a set of controversial or opinionated books to the class.  Each student was to read a book and write a review of it.  The books were then re-distributed, and each student read and reviewed another book.  After three rounds of reading and reviewing, the reviews themselves were duplicated and distributed, to be read and reviewed in turn by each student.  I liked that one.  Was that the "Gospel According to WASM", or am I confusing that with another innovative and memorable assignment? Anita Herhold English
        These reminiscences made me wonder whatever happened to that guy...  I wondered if I could find anything with a Google search?...  And indeed, Google yielded a rich harvest, including your website, which I have perused this morning instead of working.
        It's good to see that you've had and are continuing to lead such a busy and interesting life.  I'm glad that the years at NCHS were a good and fulfilling part of that life.  I have very good memories of my year in your AP English class, which gave me ideas and inspiration during my own years as a teacher (ten years teaching history in international schools in Iran, Belgium, England and France) -- and still today as a lawyer (working for a big firm in Paris, specializing in international arbitration).  I'll look forward to exploring your website further.

 <travelto@suddenlink.net>  Anita Herhold English

 <mrarb2@comcast.net> Linda Hotchkiss I had forgotten about the website but have spent time today going though it.  It is fun to see what others have been doing since NCHS.  My email has changed to mrarb2@comcast.net and I would appreciate it if you could make
that change for me.  I would love to hear from others (although I know I was
a real dork)

<<richardhuge@comcast.net> > Richard H. Huge - 

< jsh9007@aol.com > John S. Hutcheson

My quote from the senior year book had been, "Where There is Sufficient Will There is a Sufficient Way." How true this quote was for me is grossly understated. When I received my high school diploma I was said to have had fewer than six more months to live. . . . Whenever I see the doctors that gave that prognosis, I laugh at them.

I was in the Class of '75 at Babson College, where I majored in finance and minored in economics. I completed college in 2 1/2 years.

Have been married for over 23 years to the same woman. Two children, John (Jacks S. Hutcheson Jr--yes, I am still vain), age 16; and Margaret (Meg) H. Hutcheson, age 14.

I am a Corporate Tax Accountant (Government Service) and have been with the same firm for 20 years. Would like to hear from classmates who are still out there. I get back to New Canaan every few months.

<mrarb@flash.net> Linda Kaiser Hotchkiss - e-mail no good Nov 2005

I'm in Texas and have been since 1978. Love it here. Mr. Smith may or may not remember, but I was in his senior English class and really enjoyed being challenged and experiencing new ways to have fun with the language. One of my favorite things to do is the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle. I get such a great sense of accomplishment when I can finish the whole thing, which seems to be happening fairly frequently lately. I have really enjoyed the NCHS alumni website.

< WindHarp99@aol.com > Anne Kaiser e-mail no good Oct 2005

< sachnoffs629@aol.com > Cheryl Surprenant Sachnoff

        (15 Nov 2005) 
           Buon giorno, Mr. Smith,  I'm so glad you're keeping these connections alive.  Leecheryl@msn.com is defunct.  My new email address is sachnoffs629@aol.com. I would love to hear from you and anyone else from that bit of space/time that was NCHS in the mid-sixties.
        Now my daughter is in high school, and naturally I'm reliving that chapter of my own life.  Presently I'm immersed in a project involving "Perannos."   I've been making quilts for some time, and am now learning new techniques for incorporating photographic images.  I'm scanning images from the yearbook, manipulating them and printing them on sensitized fabric.  It's remarkable to me how fresh those memories are, once evoked -- like those beans from ancient Egypt that were still viable when planted.  (I read online about your visit to your home town, and I know this experience is a familiar one.)
            By the way, I work in a public library in Skokie, IL.  You'll be glad to know we have both "Who's Who in Hell" and "Celebrities in Hell" in our collection.  They make great browsing.

Class of '68 - Whatever happened to Bill Toomey?

< sallyz@home.com > Sally Church Petersem

After NCHS, I ground grist for the proverbial mill-- a Boston hippie and Maine farmer; three-masted schooner stewardess stint in the Caribbean, where I met Danish husband to be, health sciences degree; ten years as a pediatric RN; then BA in creative writing; teaching credential; then and now, eight years as a public school primary grade teacher. Two kids in college -- Mike at UCLA, Kate at Humboldt. Now I'm working on getting past more than the mental planning for a book.

I hope all my classmates are well-- Tory, Coby, and Folda especially.

Thanks, wasm, for the Lingo dictionary project!

<vkhtory@hotmail.com> Tory Hicks - e-mail no good Nov 2005

Class of '69--reunion is planned for April 29-30, 2005, at the New Canaan Country Club

<preston@bealle.com>  Preston Bealle writes that the Friday night opening party will be at his place in Darien.  Classmates will want to e-mail him.

< Reid.Birdsall@CIGNA.COM > Reid Birdsall - e-mail no good Nov 2005

<peterkingsbury@mac.com > Peter Kingsbury art teacher, New Canaan High School

 <bluestorkwins@compuserve.com> Richard A. Franco
       (4 Nov 2005) Hi, Mr. Smith, It's always good to have an update.  Hope all is well.  Give my best to all
the intellectuals.

    (19 Oct 2004) I am here in New Canaan where I operate a wine store with the help of one
of my brothers.  The town has changed quite a bit but it's still quite New England-y. 
I am living not far from your old spot on Millport.  My wife and I are on Summer Street
in an old stone house we bought about 20 years ago.
      You were a good teacher and you helped me sort out some personal issues, for which
I will always be grateful.  It does not seem that you have changed much, which is a good thing. 
I'm on my way home now on a damp and chilly October evening.

< pvz@interport.com > Peter von Ziegesar lives in New York City' West Village - e-mail address no good Oct 2004

Class of '70

<Gary.Brown@nhmccd.edu>  Gary Brown
       (July 2004) Please add my name. I would have been in the Class of '70.  I'm wondering what has become of my friends Tom Roberts, Doug Barrett, Rob Wood, Greg Brown, Marie Deprez, among many others that I lost touch with over the years.
         (Nov 2005)  I’ve been writing weekly film reviews for the Gateway Times, a community newspaper in Willis, Texas.  Willis is a north Houston suburb and the circulation area ranges from trailer parks to million dollar gated communities. I post the reviews on Rottentomatoes.com, an excellent entertainment web site.  One review of the movie “Just Like Heaven” was picked up for syndication by the Prince George (County) Post, a community paper in Maryland.  I’m afraid I have a long way to go to catch up to Roger Ebert!
          Here is that particular review:
                    http://ppl.nhmccd.edu/~garyb/reviews/Justlikeheaven.htm

    Hope this finds you doing well.

<sglines@industrialmyth.com>  Steve Glines
       (2006) I belong to a group of writers who call themselves the "bagel bards"
because we meet in a bagel restaurants. It was something of a joke but
we not only created an anthology but a whole literary journal (online of
course). You can find the whole thing at http://www.whlreview.com/
         (2004)  Gee, no one from the class of 1970? Did everyone take too many pills, or what?
        (Nov 2005) Warren - I'm thrilled to see that you are still around. I've enclosed a flier about one of my projects. I've been running Wilderness House for the past year or so. If you are up this way perhaps we can have you over
for lunch as well.
          Do you happen to know what ever happened to Carol Lindsey (Waggaman)?  She was one of the best teachers I ever had and I'd like to thank her at some point.
          voice: 978-952-6340       www.industrialmyth.com 
           fax: 978-952-8524         145 Foster Street
          cell: 617-549-7274         Littleton MA 01460
<>

< eldridgeking@earthlink.net > Eldridge King - e-mail no good Nov 2005

Is this where former Rams contact each other? Let me hear from you!

< rayroyw@cs.com > Roy Wood -- Hmmmm . . . nobody from 1970? -- address no good Jan 2000

Freaks trying to be hippies, but not quite having the heart; jocks patrolling the halls on Moratorium Day ripping off black arm bands. Nameless geeks in the middle spinning their wheels on identity.

Daily casualty lists in the newspaper; garage band wannabes with their Hendrix posters (they weren't even close, and he was half-dead anyway).

Reunion? Never had the first union it seemed.

Working at Baskin Robbins for Mr. Weiland (?) -- you know, the big bald guy. Sue, who worked there and died tragically early of an aneurysm. Can't remember her last name, but she was one of the nicest people I knew in New Canaan. ( My yearbook vanished into a black hole about 25 years ago.)

Going over the line to the Three Pines or Steak and Brew in Port Chester. Hiking at Pound Ridge. Swearing I'd seen Paul Newman in Westport, but I don't think I ever really did.

the guy at graduation who refused his diploma, threw his cap on the floor and stomped off the stage with his parents in bewildered pursuit. (What was that all about anyway? Ahh, the stuff of legends.)

Painting houses with James Washington (a real skill I can still use much to my family's delight). "Woody, hurry up, I want to get out of here before Christmas."

Amazing home on Benedict Hill Road that stole my parents' youth before they slipped away to Florida.

Dana Conron, Rob Franco, Jim Cousins; cruising around the countryside with Cousins listening to "Jamming With Edward" or "Super Session." Lost track of him in about 1978. Are you out there somewhere, Jim, or in Southside Chicago?

Only teacher who made an impression on my blossoming brilliance? WASM. Glad to see his name on "The Page." Loved those extra-credit projects without boundaries. (Sorry, dry-rot got those notebooks half a life ago, but I did try to keep them..)

Those years were nothing but churning turmoil multiplied by teenage confusion. It's hard to look back on them fondly. "Hope I die before I get old"? No way.I'm having much more fun now.

< detroye1@apple.com > John DeTroye

After NCHS I went on to West Point and spent 12 years as an Army officer. I still remember being in Mr. Smith's class and attempting to write science fiction. I also remember when Ben Zwart and I did an 8mm movie for credit. Now in the days of digital video, I can only imagine the projects I would be able to do.

I am advisory systems engineer, Apple Computer, K-12, in Denver.

Is the Class of '70 ever going to have a school reunion? Sure would like to track down Ben Zwart, Ralph Reinertsen, Wyn Leenhouts, and Dana Conron.

[Smith: Greetings from a fellow Macaddict! Not only did I become friends with Isaac and Asimov but also am a particularly close friend of Sir Arthur C. Clarke--the three of us are, or were in Isaac's case, active in the philosophic movement known as secular humanism. When Clarke went to Johns Hopkins for some medical help in October 1999, he telephoned me to come see him at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City. I got to have breakfast with him, after which he was visited by Walter Cronkite, Rupert P. Murdoch, and Woody Allen--when I can figure out my new scanner, I'll post the photo of Sir Arthur and me. Ironically, I never really read the work of either author! But I reviewed Clarke's 3001 for the London New Humanist . We have been e-mail buddies for several years, ever since he sent me a four-figure check to help pay the burial expenses of a mutual friend, 4-time Tony Award nominee Gilbert Price.]

Class of '71

jbettridge@mshanken.com > Jack Bettridge
        Gardner, Mooney, where are you?

        Edwin J. Graf '71 was among the missing in the World Trade Center disaster of 11 Sep 2001. According to an Advertiser obituary (20 Sep 2001), he was a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont and a vice president of Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, an inter-broker dealer for government securities in the World Trade Towers. Ed had three children and lived in Rowayton.
       (8 Nov 2005) For some reason my address has been listed on this page as not being a good one since Decembere 1999.  However, it is.  I may have been "no good since December 1999," but my address is good.  Mr. Smith may have meant that I had started to go rotten long before 1999.  Anyway, write me!

mlxcs@bath.ac.uk -  I am Pam Maher's sister.  You can find her at my address.  Cynthia Maher Spencer.

<lance.hoboy@usa.net > Lance K. Hoboy would like to hear from others.

<soozewall@yahoo.com>   Susan Wall       > Dear Warren,

     Since I am half a century now, I think I can  call you Warren. The R-T's always had my email. Sorry  if you all were trying to contact me. I also came to our 30th reunion in 01'.
     After NCHS . . . I went to Stephens and received a BFA in Theatre. Then on to the University of Michigan for my Masters. I received an acting Fellowship. Then the usual travel to Europe thing. With many twists, I have ended up in St. Louis where I have lived for 24 years. I am proud to say that I support myself in this crazy business of theatre . . . with a million jobs. I do regional theatre, commercials, a one woman show. I teach acting at Webster University. It keeps me very busy, along with my 12 year old daughter, Gracie. I  have been married for 24 years. My husband is a vintage guitar dealer and plays guitar. Hope all my spelling is correct.
    Are you at NCHS? You were such a great teacher! Have fun at Kathy's celebration. All the best.


Class of '72

 
< msk525@juno.com > My name was Marcia L. Strutz , which is how I registered in the NCHS alum

site. I attended NCHS from 1969 to 1971. My family was transferred to Houston in the summer of 1971, right before my senior year and I graduated in 1972 from Westchester High School in Houston, Texas; but I still feel a strong connection to NCHS. I'm wondering if the class of 72 has had any reunions? - e-mail no good Nov 2005

Class of '73--hey, hey, we've got a homepage!  Check us out!

             http://www.nchs73.com/index.html

<eastbakers@juno.com > Mark Baker - e-mail no good February 2005

I grew up in New Canaan with a large family but moved from away to Washington D.C. the summer proceeding my senior high school year. I spent 4 years in the Antarctic (1979 through 1983) as an outfitter, station manager and science leader with the United States Antarctic Research Program. In the 1980's I graduated from The University of Colorado at Denver with a Masters degree in Architecture. I now practice architecture (primarily large scale institutional projects) nation-wide with a Denver based firm. I am married, have a son, am an amateur radio operator and have traveled and mountain climbed around the world. In NCHS I was an Explorer Scout and played drums in the marching band for a time. I was active in drama. I would be delighted to hear from lost friends.

scott@cocoapetes.com  Scott Barnum wrote the editor that he now is associated in Campbell, California, with Cocoa Pete's Chocolate Adventures.

<jlbwqrc@cape.com>  Janet Birchfield (who graduated from Litchfield Prep) wrote the webmaster in February 2005.
      

< MLamb@projectnavigator.com > Mary Newberry Lamb

                    

  Mary Newberry Lamb and Karen Murphy at the July 2004 Reunion . . .                   and in Nashville where Karen was in "Best of the 50's"

<TorchGoddess@aol.com> Karen Murphy-- In November 1998 she and Steve Ross appeared on 42nd Street in "L'Amour, the Merrier!" Her h.s. drama coach (Nancy Russell-Tutty), humanities teacher (Ron Russell-Tutty), librarian (Ben Cianficci, accompanied by his wife), and English teacher (Warren Allen Smith) attended. The R-Ts and Smith have attended every one of her plays ("Titanic," for example) and cabaret acts. Ross, in Smith's estimation, is easily on a level with Bobby Short, and a grand piano appears to be nothing but an extension of his body, so attuned the two are. The red-headed Karen is the ultimate of sophistication! Together, they performed Cole Porter, Gershwin, and others, with Karen sometimes atop the grand piano and sometimes coming on "fit to kill." Something like a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers act. Or Cary Grant-Irene Dunne. FAN-tastic!

In October 2000 at Cabaret@1050, a cabaret-supper club, she again performed a sophisticated evening of 1950s song with a fantastic trio of back-up musicians. Her old English teacher, Warren Allen Smith whose recording studio in the 1960s made Liza Minnelli's first demo record at a time when she was a senior at Scarsdale High, said the evening reminded him of times at the Bon Soir. That boite on 8th Street was where he saw one of Barbra Streisand's first performances; where Marlon Brando applauded his buddy Mr. Peepers the comic; where guitarist Tiger Haynes (the tin man in "The Wiz") and singer Mae Barnes were regularly featured; and where Senator Dick Nixon was seen applauding in a corner. Karen, says Smith, is every bit as good as any of the soloists he remembers at the Bon Soir. "Fred Barton, her pianist, was the most physical I've ever seen," Smith added. Karen's "Torch Goddess: Music to Light Candles By" program included "Stranger in Paradise" and "Secret Love," and it was a repeat of a program cited by Drama-Logue as "one of the Top 10 cabaret acts of the '96 season." In attendance on October 30th were NCHSers Glen Becker, Cathy Russell, Nancy and Ron Russell-Tutty, and Smith.

She is coming soon to Broadway in All Shook Up!

Karen has just finished recording Torth Goddess.  Cost is $15 from 621 West 254th St., Bronx, NY 10471.


<toplung@redshift.com>  Scott Sageman  - e-mail no good Nov 2005
    On 5 February 2005 wrote Mr. Smith:  "After graduating from NCHS, I headed to the West Coast to attend Stanford.  After receiving bachelor's and master's degrees there, I went to medical school in Washington, D.C. and went on to post-graduate training in Internal Medicine, Respiratory Diseases, and Critical Care Medicine.  After 15 years of service in the US Navy (paying the taxpayers back for funding my medical education), I left the service to direct the intensive care unit at Monterey's county hospital located in Salinas, CA.  Along the way, I managed to con the love of my life into marrying me in 1980 and we have a 14 year old daughter."

< sydibble@richmond.infi.net > Sherlyn Yates Dibble - e-mail no good Aug 2001

Class of '74

kgibb89266@aol.com > Karen Bulakites Gibbens

I was a member of the Class of '74, the last graduating class from the old high school. I left New Canaan in 1978 and moved to southern California where my husband and I now own our home. My husband Bob has been an engineer with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for 26 years, and we have been married for thirteen. I have been a volunteer firefighter with the County of Riverside and hope to get back into it soon. I read about the alum page in the New Canaan Advertiser , which I get every year as a birthday present from my husband. I would enjoy hearing from people from New Canaan very much. I have one daughter, 24, from my first marriage. I made it back last year for our 25th reunion. Wow, that is a long time ago!

< jsallay@mediaone.net > John M. Sallay - e-mail no good Nov 2005

I have very fond memories of the Adam Smith Club and English class with Mr. Smith. I just watched my 18-year-old twins get their high school diplomas June 1999 and remembered that this is my own 25th reunion year. Does anyone know where Wendy Coleman, our class president, is?

< plinger@optonline.net> Patty Linger 

Class of '75

< regio14108@aol.com > Alison Christie Garza - e-mail no good Nov 2005
    (Thank you, Don Souden, for supplying your sister's user address in 2004) 

<< hollidayll@aol.com > Lisa Holliday - e-mail no good Nov 2005
        received her degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, started her Masters at New York University, and spent a year in the Philippines. Mr. Smith may remember that he purchased my father's BMW 2002 (orange). Dad lives outside Philly and still consults in the nonwoven field for Fortune 100 companies as well as writes theme music for movies.

<mlxcs@bath.ac.uk>   Cynthia Maher Spencer  I'm class of '75 (sister of Pam Maher, '71).  I noticed Barb Guerrero's post and thought our year could do with further boosting.  Best Wishes, Cynthia.


<guerrero@svcable.net > Barbara Smith Guerrero Marchant

<mbundick@faganmasonry.com> Maureen (Hutchinson) Bundick

(2 April 2004) Hi! Just found your web site. My name is Maureen (Hutchinson) Bundick. I graduated in 1975 (first class to go four years in the "new" high school). I am currently the chief financial controller for a mid-sized company here in sunny Northern California. My husband and I have lived in the Sacramento area for the past 20 years and absolutely love it here! In addition to my "day job"  I own and operate a business training &  consulting service. My website is www.talk2margo.com and my email is talk2margo@yahoo.com or punch in my name -  "Maureen Bundick" in a yahoo search and see some of the things I've been up to over the past few years. Still playing guitar & singing for fun & $$ in my spare time. Life is good! Would love to hear from other classmates! Take care & God Bless!

<thomaswoodhouse@aol.com> Thomas Woodhouse

Class of '76


Class of '77-- over 200 attended a 20-year-reunion party. More than $1,500 was raised and given to the NCHS Scholarship Foundation. The 25th will be held in the summer of 2002.

< carl.j.sundberg@fyfa.ki.se > Carl Johan Sundberg , MD, Ph.D

I spent the school year 1976-1977 in New Canaan as an exchange student. After high school I went to Medical School here in Stockholm. I teach and do research at the Karolinska Institute, a Medical University.

I am married to Kay, who is a nurse by profession. We have three kids, Richard (born 1986), Anna (born 1988), and Erik (born 1994). Most likely they will apply to spend a high school year abroad the way I did. We live in a suburb of Stockholm a quarter of a mile from the sea.

I have visited my host family, the Conrons, in New Canaan, in 1997. I often visit my exchange family "brother," Bobby Conron, where he lives in Boston.

I hope to attend the planned 25th reunion in 2002. If anyone wishes to contact me while visiting Sweden or at any other time I can be reached at

Linnévagen 26, 184 51 Osterskar, Sweden

Mobile phone: + 46-(0) 70 715 6886

Home: +46-(0) 8 5402 0871

Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden

Class of '78-- a reunion was scheduled for 11 July 1998 .

tlit31@yahoo.com Tom Little - e-mail address no good Nov 2005

Class of '79-- Alice Ridgeway asks classmates to write to NCHS1979@aol.com - however, this does not work.

       The 25th reunion will be on 17 July 2004 so write to
                alice@NCHS1979.us

Class of '80-- a 20th reunion is planned for 20 September 2000.

Contact Steve and Tracey Geist-Karl .

<> < tex1@capecod.net > David J. Baldwin - e-mail address no good Nov 2005  
    I'd like to keep in touch with my classmates.

 

Class of '81

SRuggiero@excite.com   Susan Louria Ruggiero  I am a graduate of the class of 1981 and have received numerous phone calls from fellow classmates and friends about our reunion in 2001.  Do you know who is the contact person is.  I would love to get in on the planning.  Contact me, please.

JAWilkinson@cfl.rr.com  James Wilkinson (6 May 05) wrote that after attending the University of Iowa and Minnesota, he now lives in Orlando, Florida, and is a partner in a large firm representing the theme park industry
 

 

Class of '82

< lqb03133@is.nyu.edu > Lynn Marie Bacon--address no good Dec 1999 http://pages.nyu.edu/~getstart.htm

I remember my junior year class of creative writing and can only now appreciate the use of pseudonyms and peers critiquing my work!

My website can be accessed using a Mac, but the specific information is for PowerPoint for Windows. The general information will be more about using presentations, but maybe I should think about including a section for PowerPoint for the Mac. Are many "macusers" using Microsoft Office products?

I am at New York University working currently as a graduate assistant. I will be finishing up my coursework at the end of the 1998 summer. I have saved Stats for last! . . . and then I need to think about writing my proposal and dissertation. I am pretty sure I will be going the qualitative route. The recursive and descriptive nature of qualitative research makes more sense to me. Although I strongly resist the process of writing, once I get my ideas and observations down I feel better.

Class of '83

Heather Beutel Fortinberry will be sending her e-mail address to Mr. Smith soon. She lives in Los Angeles with 2 1/2-year daughter and teacher-husband.

< whitneyc@u.washington.edu > Whitney Crothers Dilley--address no good Dec 1999

In 1987, I graduated with a B.A. in English from Oberlin College, and job prospects looked none too brigh t . Out of sheer boredom, I bought a one-way ticket to Taiwan, promising myself I would not return to the U.S. until I was fluent in Chinese. What I optimistically expected to be a year's study turned into a three-year, life-changing experience overseas. In 1990, I returned to the U.S. and entered a doctoral program in Comparative Literature, with the intention of earning my Ph.D. to teach English and Comparative Literature at the university level in Taiwan (and other compelling overseas environments--I basically viewed the Ph.D. as my ticket around the world).

Along the way I met--and married--my computer-genius husband, Larry. For the past four years, I have taught First-year Chinese at the University of Washington; I am the only blonde instructor. This February I completed my dissertation, an abridged translation of the 18th-century Chinese comic novel-- The Scholars --and so will be graduating in June. This August, Larry and I will leave the U.S. We hope to make our home in Taiwan for five years or more.

< DmndChip@aol.com > Liz Vartuli Grabler - e-mail address no good Nov 2005

Just taking a few minutes to update!

In 1987 graduated with a BS from Centenary College. Went on to work, as an Account Rep. for a large local retailer, Dress Barn, then for Nine West. During that time I married an incredible man, Jack, in Oct. of 1989, and we had 3 dogs. After deciding that working for someone else was not in the cards for me, I went on to find something "BETTER" and I did. My husband and I have our own business which is part-time at "full-time" income. We now only have one dog but have added two wonderful children, Maximilian, age 3 & Alexandria age 1.

I'm happy to report life is Grand!!

Chris Jeffries 1616 East Howell St. (#105), Seattle, WA 98122 (206) 726-6012 -- had one of his original plays performed in 1998 at Yale U

<tlouria@aol.com> Tyler Louria

Class of '84

< DAVEYMI@ny.whitecase.com > Mike Davey --address no good June 2000

would like other members of the class to join up before everyone gets lost.

< keith.brown@pearsontv.com > Keith Brown - e-mail address no good Nov 2005

Yo, anybody from the class of '84? Nick Lewis, a fellow classmate ( nhl66@mindspring.com ) is trying to contact Hillary Spence, who was also in our class. Anyone know her whereabouts?

Class of '85

< FROG0823@aol.com > Susan Roberts Heidenrich - e-mail address no good Nov 2005

Hi fellow Rams! After graduating in '85 I went to Texas Christian University in Fort Worth to experience life outside of Connecticut. Met my husband in school and landed a job at American Airlines right after graduating from TCU. So here I am 13 years later! I currently am working in the marketing department at AA and LOVE it. My husband, David, and I are enjoying our 15-month-old daughter, Abigail, and we just built a new house in a suburb of Dallas/Fort Worth.

Would love to move back to the northeast some day but for now my travel benefits will have to do. We get back often. My mom is in Ridgefield, and my sister (Nancy, class of 91?) is in Stamford. Would love to hear what you all are up to.

< johnpiselli@juno.com> John Piselli

Greetings to everyone. I currently live in Massachusetts with my wife Michele and our three boys: George (6), Steven (4), Charles (9mos.). I am currently directing a vocational rehabilitation agency in North Central Massachusetts. I work with the chronically mentally ill, developing programming and supports that will enable their integration into work and educational opportunities.

Our latest and most exciting venture is bringing to market cutting edge anti-aging treatment and neutro-ceuticals that impact general health and chronic illness. I am spreading the word.

Thank you for this forum. I'm looking for : Richard Morton, Colleen Finnegan, Liz Furst

Class of '86

< sorbo@vip.cybercity.dk > Soren Rasmussen (exchange Danish student)

I currently reside in Copenhagen, Denmark, where I do research in the field of astronomy at the Astronomical Observatory, University of Copenhagen. The blame for my choice of profession I put squarely on an unholy alliance: My late grandfather, my NCHS science teacher Mr. Edward Ruszczyk, and popular American science fiction such as Star Trek . Let this be a warning to all those who would venture out in the world!

My Language, Literature, and Composition teacher, Warren Allen Smith, apparently did not quite manage to determine my future choices with regards to profession, but he certainly succeeded in making a powerful impression. The strained book cases in my apartment stand as not quite mute testimony to his influence upon my reading habits.

In no small part due to a few teachers (and some students--you know who you are), I have always remembered my few years in New Canaan with unreserved joy.

After a few years in the Danish army, somehow I never managed to let go, so I hold the rank of captain (reserve) with the Royal Engineers. Go figure.

Inasmuch as my better half will be studying in Memphis, Tennessee, in the first half of 1999, I am polishing off plans to see New Canaan again during the summer of 1999.

(July 1999) I have now finished my work at the University of Copenhagen and am quite pleased with the result of my research. With degree well in hand, I promptly fled to the private sector and now spend most of my days being productive for IBM. It is a pleasant change of pace, the hours are better, and the pay is obviously superior. I expect to stay at IBM for at least a few years, unless unexpected opportunity knocks.

On a personal note, I will marry on September 11, 1999, but as my fiancée is working to finish her thesis in Memphis, TN, I will go to the States in order that we can break with tradition (and, possibly, common sense) and have a pre-nuptual honeymoon of sorts. Afterwards, we'll spend three weeks driving around the Eastern seabord.

< mcf@rti.org> Matthew Farrelly

I went on to Indiana University and majored in French and Economics. Went on to graduate school in economics at the University of Maryland, where I got a PhD, concentrating in Public Economics and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. In 1996 I got a job at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) in North Carolina. My dissertation was on the effects of government regulation on tobacco use, and now I direct a program at RTI on tobacco use research. My program has 13 staff members, and we do research for a private foundation formed from the tobacco settlement (The American Legacy Foundation) and for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

I got married in 1998 on Halloween here in North Carolina. My wife and I live in an historic house (The Rochester House) in the historic district of Hillsborough, NC. My wife also works at RTI in health and has a PhD in Epidemiology from Berkeley. We have a cat and 4 chickens. Would like to hear from others.

Class of '87-- call President David Fox for information about a reunion (203) 227-0187.
      
          jeffreybc@gmail.com    Jeff Cunningham for almost 15 years has been working with hedge fund managers and is now in Los Angeles working in the stock market. In a letter dated 6 Dec 2004, he wrote, "Do you remember Mike Pollack that was in the band The Vatican Commandos?  I am still in tough with him.  I guess one of the other band members turned out to be a big pop star (Moby.)  I never realized he was a descendant of Herman Melville."

Class of '88 -

        jeff@cutter.net   Jeff Cutter is currently based in Tokyo, Japan. He wrote in to make sure that everyone in (or interested in) the NCHS Class of 1988 reunion should checkout the fantastic reunion site established by Lynne Eyberg (Jakacki) and other members of the reunion committee.  www.nchs88.com 


Class of '89-- a reunion was planned for 26 Nov 1999

< trex250@hotmail.com > Haddi Sigurdsson

I was in New Canaan from 1986 until 1989 and would have been in the class of '89. I have been here in Iceland since 1989. When I came here I went to a small private business school and have ventured out into the computer business. Currently I'm working as an advisor for TM Software of Iceland. We are also located in Canada and the United States at <www.tolvumyndir.is>. I have not been to New Canaan in ten years, but I still keep in touch with my friends Russell Vasta '88, Mike Greene '89, and Jens Larsen '89 . Hi to everyone I ever knew in New Canaan!

Class of '97

< hime@cco.caltech.edu > Travis Hime - e-mail address no good Nov 2005
        --is at Cal Tech

Class of '98

< condorcet3@aol.com > Erik Jan Eisenberg --is at Tufts; was in Mr. Russell-Tutty's humanities class.

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Class of ?

?< gbriechle@sprintmail.com > and < Jyonce@atinc.com > - e-mail addresses no good Nov 2005

Bob Briechle's two siblings (am unsure of their addresses)

<guerrero@nytimes.com > Susan Guerrero

< mwhicks@email.msn.com > Mark Hicks - e-mail address no good Nov 2005

< dabidabi@mail2.nai.net > Peter Kingsbury

< Amy.Knapp@panther.middlebury.edu > Amy Knapp

< norling@UDel.Edu > Nancy McDiarmid Norling

< DocKW@aol.com > Karl Olson [year of graduation?]

I have now been in the practice of dentistry for over twenty-five years. So, Mr. Smith, you must be getting quite old by now: : - ) I now have a son who has just completed his freshman year at LeTourneau U in Longview, Texas. He has his eye on one of the health professions and may well be a MUCH better student than I was . . . so there is hope after all. We have a sophomore daughter at Joel Barlow High School, and our 8th grade son is home schooling. We seem to stay busy with all the good Lord has provided us.

 

< rbce@netaxis.com > Joseph J. Rucci Jr. (Secretary, New Canaan Bank & Trust Co.)

Wrong address: <jrucker516@aol.com> J. Rucker

 

EXTRA, EXTRA!

The New Canaan Advertiser's "Main and Elm" column carried the following in mid-May:

"Are Chief Keller or rookie cop Vinny Luciano in?" the stranger inquired at the police department last week. Captain Luciano appeared, greeting Warren Allen Smith, who had started his 32-year stint as an English teacher in the department's second floor sutheast corner room. It was Mr. Smith's second return to New Canaan since his retirement. He was accompanied by Taslima Nasrin , the Bangladesh gynecologist for whom he is personal assistant and whom he describes as "the female Salman Rushdie" inasmuch as she has a fatwa on her head. She has been forced to take refuge in Sweden in order to avoid assassination by Muslim fundamentalists, and Mr. Smith edits her speeches by exchanging e-mail messages. Accompanying them for lunch at Bank Restaurant, where Mr. Smith ahd once opened his first checking account, was one of his ex-students, Stamford Police Officer Simon Blanc.

 

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