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And from the newly relocated
Rob Taylor: “In the two short
years since we last met, Sarah
Berga and I have moved to the
Wake Forest School of Medicine
inWinston-Salem, N.C. (the city
bearing a rather ironic name for
a health science center). She is
chair and I am vice chair for
research in the Ob/Gyn Depart-
ment. It’s a wonderfully bucolic
location. We live in the historic
Moravian town of Old Salem, in
a home built in 1822. Pleasant
seasons and rolling hills make
for a very comfortable lifestyle.
It’s a challenging time raising
NIH and foundation funding for
a new women’s health research
initiative but a stimulating
community, and my program
in uterine biology is growing
steadily.”
Gil Parsons writes: “After
having been out of contact
for nearly 40 years, St. Paul’s
classmates Mark Wheeler and
Gil Parsons found themselves
collaborating in a scheme to
bring a rare set of artifacts of
the eighteenth-century Chi-
nese Emperor Qianlong out
of Paris to a new and perhaps
more fitting home in the United
States. When the project went
up in flames amidst a flurry of
international intrigue (and a
large pile of Chinese cash…) the
unlikely pair of superannuated
Walter Mittys found themselves
laughing all the way to the…
bar… and plotting further ad-
venture.”
Dennis Dixon reported
on his recent brush with our
medical system: “As for my
latest news, in late April I was
hospitalized for a pulmonary
embolism on my left lung. That
got cleaned up, but my intes-
tinal tract was blocked up (big
pain) – turned out to be kidney
stones, which got zapped. The
antibiotics seemed to have
taken care of the (light case of)
pneumonia, and the gallstones
they found are small and ‘80
percent of everybody have
gallstones – no big deal as
long as they don’t hurt.’ And I
met with an infectious-disease
doctor to take a look at me,
because I tested positive for
the TB scratch-on-arm test.
So, aside from that, I’m having
a great time in the warmth and
sunshine of our New England
springtime and saw Patty Lar-
kin in Rockport recently. I went
skiing a half-dozen times this
past winter –my only complaint
is their senior rates don’t kick
in for many more years (I hate
paying retail).”
We found a note from last
fall (Oops. Sorry, Leo) from Leo
Romer: “As you know, I was in
the States for two months and
visited ma’ main man, Guy An-
tonioli, in Austin. I took a break
from Hurricane Hugo Chavez
& Co. Wow, now that was a
breather and a change of scene.
During my break from our
Venezuelan pressure-cooker,
I visited my two daughters in
Florida and had my 60th birth-
day in Little Havana, downtown
Miami (8th Street), at the Ver-
sailles Restaurant with them.
My youngest daughter, Maria
Carlota, was pregnant back then
(February and March). Since
then she’s become a mom, and
I’m a very freaked out grandfa-
ther! I’m still speechless.”
And from one of our resi-
dent thespians, Bram Lewis:
“Working on a new play, The
Mask of the Jaguar King, with
Kate Erbe of Law & Order and
Ricardo Chavira of Desperate
Housewives. The reading at
Signature Repertory went well,
and in attendance were Richard
Lederer and Peter Seymour.”
1972
John Henry Low
jhl@knick.com
JohnHenry Low files this form
report: This quarter’s Form of
1972 formnotes are all about
our ongoing “When Two orMore
Are Gathered in My Name” De-
partment. Pres Stone reported
that he visited Kauai with Susan,
his wife of 35 years, to celebrate
his Six-0, and “sensed that
our former Form Director and
Four-0 Reunion Party Impre-
sario Charlie Bronson, located
in his remote corner of this
already remote island, needed
a visit from the mainland and
his sordid, distant past. Pres
and Susan walked away with
lighter wallets and more noni
than they knewwhat to do with,
noni being Mr. B’s new life mis-
sion. But life is not all noni for
Charlie, as later they hoisted a
few barrels of rum to catch up
and reminisce.” Pres further
reports that “noni tastes simply
awful (think blue cheese), and
the rum went a long way in
killing the taste. Furthermore,
Charlie’s life on the Garden Isle
of Hawaii ain’t all bad, as he
was surrounded by a bevy of
ladies. Wasn’t that always the
case?” Pres and Susan continue
to live in San Francisco, whence
Charlie emigrated. Pres runs
the Bay Area local chapter of
the Form of 1972 Ale and Quail
Society, the bounty of which he
will dispense to all visiting 1972
formmates.
In an effort to prevent Char-
lie’s recent move to Kauai from
tipping the earth’s axis too
much toward the left coast,
Keith Rollinson told us of a
move back to the right coast
from his current home in West
Lynn, Ore., (near Portland) back
to Boston. In fact, Keith will,
at least temporarily, become a
roommate of Tom Iglehart ’69
in the Jamaica Plain neighbor-
hood in Boston. Keith’s new gig
will be the post-production
manager at Emerson College
in Boston. Emerson is a leading
university in film, video, audio,
and communications. Keith has
long been a musician, com-
posing old music, new music,
and film music, and has been
involved with a video and audio
post-production career over
a couple of decades. Keith did
some documentary film work
FORMNOTES
Pres Stone ’72 (l.) and Charlie
Bronson ’72 celebrating Pres’s
60th on Kauai.
Catching up with Jose Wiltshire ’73 (bottom, far right) at the home
of Ken Williams ’74 in Newark, Del., are (l. to r.) seated: Wayne
Gilreath ’74, Ed Shockley ’74, Jose Luis Huertas-Perez ’75; standing:
Peter Patton ’73, Severo Nieves ’76, Ken Williams, Larry Woody ’72.