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finished a busy year as a Rotary
International District Governor
for 60 Rotary clubs in Southern
New Hampshire and Vermont.
This post-governor’s year, Tony
is leading a Rotary Global Grant
to provide $780,000 worth of
maternal and pediatric medical
equipment for five rural clin-
ics in Mongolia. Since then, he
has been busy leading a small
Rotary team to the Philippines
and volunteering for these
mission projects: five times to
Honduras, three to Haiti and
one to the Dominican Republic
and spending the three years
to prepare for the year as a
district governor. He says hello
to all. Binny Clark reports that
Gampo Abbey, a monastery
on the northern tip of Cape
Breton, has put up a 30-year
retrospective slideshow made
by Canadian Film Board Direc-
tor Kent Martin. Some of his
music is used on the soundtrack
and can be heard on YouTube
(search: Celebrating 30 years
of Life and Friendship at Gampo
Abbey). The music is a tradi-
tional Irish fiddle tune, ‘Slane.’
Binny re-worked the words of a
7th-century Celtic ‘breastplate’
hymn to come up with the lyric.
The monks and nuns sing a
four-part arrangement of his
towards the end of the clip).
Stewart Bell has been subject-
ing his wife, Lis, to a nostalgic
mini-film-festival via Netflix: a
retrospective from the Memo-
rial Hall playlist circa 1957-61.
Of the four titles he can remem-
ber, two are still on very long
wait, but we have enjoyed The
Time Machine , featuring the
legendary YvetteMimieux (alive
and well, according to Google,
and almost exactly our age) and
A Kid for Two Farthings, with
Primo Carnera as the Python,
the supremely self-confident
wrestler whom Dorm 4 alumni
will surely remember, as they
will Richard III, still in queue.
Did we see The Guns of Na-
varone at school? What other
movies can you remember?”
Tod Rodger writes: “Big
celebration this first day of
spring. I have biked a quarter
million documented miles in 47
years. Lots of great memories
with lots of great friends – not
all of whom are still with us. A
few bruises along the way. Like
life? About 100,000 miles onMr.
Blue (1984 Specialized Expedi-
tion above), who celebrates his
30th birthday this year, and 18
years since he was re-painted
by Hot Tubes in Shirley. Still
looks new – like me? What’s
next? 55 miles on our 55th
reunion? 500,000 kilometers
(10-15 years?) Set new world
one-hour record (16.2 miles for
100+ age bracket)? Best wishes
for another good year! I’m still
helping Peter (Pell) peddle car
racks.”
Mike Seymour concludes
with his own news: “My wife,
Maggie, and I are happily rowing
3+ days/week in 8s and 4s with
the Beaufort Rowing Club and
are part of launching Compas-
sionate Beaufort Communities
(cbc-sc.org), one of more than
190 localities worldwide which
are part of the Compassionate
Cities campaign (compassionate-
action.org/cities).”
1962
Seymour Preston, Jr.
seymourp576@gmail.com
Lewis Rutherfurd writes: “Hi,
class of 1962…like all in our
class I am shocked by the death
of Robin Ross. In my case, we
remained friends at college
and thereafter. I knew his wife,
Louise, very well. I just wanted
to say I miss him. At his fu-
neral, Tony Schall and Bob
Mueller delivered wonderful
memories and tributes. Those
in attendance included Phil
Heckscher and John Kerry.
I hope to complete a doctoral
thesis by the end of June 2014.
It’s been a part-time project as
I am still an investor based in
Hong Kong. I will move back to
the U.S. and be bi-coastal as I
have three kids and five grand-
children spread out and all need
me desperately [just kidding]. I
hope to teach a semester or two
per year after the doctorate is
granted. Best wishes to all and
hope to see some of you soon.
Toby Hall sends this news:
“We’re just back from a trip to
Chicago where we spent four
days with our new grandson.
It was a very happy event. We
have a granddaughter on the
way to our younger son in
Philadelphia at the end of June,
so this will be a year of popula-
tion explosion in the Hall family.
It seems a long time coming,
as I am 19 years older than
my grandfather was when he
became a grandfather. Now I’m
back home sitting here awaiting
the arrival of the UPS truck,
which any minute is suppos-
edly bringing an advance copy
of the book Printing as a Way of
Life: Rocky Stinehour and The
Stinehour Press, upon which I
have been working for seven
years. That will make it a very
fine day indeed.”
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John Groman
jgroman@usa.net
When FormDirector John Gro-
man asked his formmates for a
few notes for this update, there
was strong reaction to his sug-
gestion that the form was in its
“waning years.”
Jerry Nelson replied: “My
waning years aren’t waning.
My young guys won’t let me
retire, so I’m busier than ever.
As you know, I lost my wife of 42
years, Mary, in September. My
daughters are doing well, both
living in San Francisco, so I am
on the road a lot, either work or
pleasure. Just came back from a
week at Steamboat Springs with
two daughters, a son-in-law,
his brother, my brother, and two
of his sons. Still able to get down
the slopes at almost 69! Best to
everyone in the Form of 1963.
Great reunion!”
“Ryland Howard and Zan
Carver echoed Jerry’s senti-
ment about not being in their
‘waning years’.”
Bill Crane writes: “I re-
cently decided to ditch my
legal career (except for the
possibility of a small amount
of pro-bono work) and will
retire at the end of June. The
summer will include spending
more time with local grandchil-
dren and sailing on the Charles
River. In September, I begin a
15-hour-per-week internship
in the chaplaincy office of the
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
(one unit of clinical pastoral
education) that follows frommy
volunteer work with palliative
care patients at MGH and with
patients at a hospice residence
in Cambridge.”
Tom (Arthur) Thomas
writes: “Just about to throw
my sixth annual benefit dinner
for organ donor awareness. I
enjoy this celebration every
year because the students at
Tod Rodger ’61 celebrates riding
250,000 miles in 47 years, about
100,000 miles on Mr. Blue, his
1984 Specialized road bike.
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