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1971
Mark M. Wheeler
mwheeler@
wtinvestmentadvisors.com
From Scott Nelson: “As to
news, I have given up on the
North and have fled South to
avoid those “snowy and un-
characteristically bright winter
days.” New address is 65 Per-
simmon Court, Kiawah Island,
SC 29455. If there are any golf-
ers in the class, they can prob-
ably recognize the appeal of this
place, especially as bothmy wife
and I golf, having officially re-
tired. My kids are grown (both
in Boston, son with Fidelity and
daughter in a doctor of physical
therapy program at Mass Gen-
eral) so no reason to put up with
the Chicago weather anymore.
Anyone in the area or stopping
through Charleston is welcome
to look me up.”
From Chris Mooney: New
snowbird abode: 1352 Landings
Drive, Sarasota FL 34231. “It’s
been 43 years since I saw most
of you – say ‘hi’ if in the ’hood.”
From Peter Murphy: “I am
founding a for-profit residen-
tial college, which solves the
root learning and financial
problems in higher education
by providing the world’s first
fully integrated, secular, fixed
curriculum, teaching under-
graduates to think using the
interconnected, essential con-
tent and method of Western
civilization: history, literature,
science, economics, and phi-
losophy. Leaders Collegemay be
renamed once a select investor
is found who values a self-
sustaining, true, and objec-
tively good legacy.”
From Byam Stevens : “I was
recently in London – took 40
patrons of Chester Theatre
Company on our annual London
theatre tour (Dublin in the fall,
London in the spring). We saw
Helen Mirren, Kristin Scott-
Thomas, Rufus Sewell, (Sir)
Anthony Sher, Iain Glen, and
Rupert Everett in plays by
Pinter, Hare, Chekhov, etc. Put-
ting the final touches on my
16th season as artistic director
at CTC, which will include the
world premiere of a play by
Stevens Sater, with music by
Duncan Sheik (the creators of
the Tony Award-winning
Spring Awakening).”
From Riker Davis: “Still at
the same house in Ruidoso,
N.M., since 1977. Unlike so
many other areas of the country
the economy is pretty good
here. The oil patch in our back
yard is very healthy these days
and Ruidoso is the closest place
for Texans to get out of the heat
and play in the mountains. My
wife, Cindi, and I run Condotel
Corp. with over 120 vacation
rentals of all shapes and sizes.
It is all good until the pager
phone rings at midnight for
some trivial reason. We have a
ski shop too – Rocky Mountain
Sports. We need bilingual staff
to properly take care of our
Mexican guests. My two years
of French with Mr. Archer plus
a semester at the University of
Grenoble in 1971 are not doing
me much good in the South-
west. Life is good here off the
beaten path at 7,000 feet in the
southern Rockies.”
From Rob Barker: “Still
working for Big Pharma. Fortu-
nately, for the time being, I’ve
been able to continue some of
my malaria work (around the
edges of my ‘day job’ working
on rare genetic diseases), in-
volving research both in my lab
and with colleagues at the Har-
vard School of Public Health.
That aspect remains fun and
challenging.”
And lastly: Bram Lewis,
Peter Seymour, Trip Spencer,
Tony Hairston, and Mark
Wheeler recently reunited in
New York at the A.R. Gurney
’48 play The Old Boy, which,
unsurprisingly with a name like
that, was based at SPS. The set
was straight out of the old din-
ing hall in Upper. Bramwas one
of the first to produce the play
and had a series of insightful
questions for “Pete” Gurney in
the question-and-answer pe-
riod after the performance.
1972
John Henry Low
jhl@knick.com
JohnHenry Low files this form
report: “This quarter’s Form of
1972 most gracious hospitality
award goes to . . . Henry Laugh-
lin and his charming wife,
Linda. Henry reported that
Clayton Prugh and his wife,
Hydie, and eldest son, Charlie,
visited us in Steamboat Springs,
Colo. We had a great time intro-
ducing them to the great out-
door life of Colorado. Over the
course of five days, we rode
snowmobiles in the back coun-
try, enjoyed spring skiing at its
best, strapped on snowshoes,
and cross country skied. It was
a wild time with many stories
and lots of laughs until the last
day, when Hydie fractured her
leg on a double black diamond
at Steamboat. We wish Hydie a
speedy recovery. While good
attorneys like Clayton always
seem to have a contrary point
of view, this time he agreed with
Henry’s opinion, adding ‘we had
a great time and enjoyed recon-
necting with Henry and Linda,
who are consummate hosts,
although searching for a trauma
surgeon who takes Oxford in-
surance is a trial.’”
Henry Laughlin’s renowned
hospitality was also affirmed by
Jeffrey Keith, who reports:
Clayton Prugh ’72 with son Charlie,
still wondering just why Henry
Laughlin ’72 told them to turn the
snowmobile that particular way.
Jeffrey Keith ’72 lecturing on color theory at the Steamboat
Springs Center for Visual Arts, next to his work “Snow Day.”
Q Belk ’73 and puppy Winston
Churchill greet faculty member
Joe Holland.
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