Page 40 - Alumni Horae: Vol. 94, No. 3 Spring 2014

Lawrenceville in the Lives Sav-
ing Lives Club put their all into
it from planning, to cooking, to
serving, to getting closer over
a cause that they believe in
supporting. Nancy and I just
finished building a home in Lake
Placid, and for my 70th birthday
she secretly invited the whole
family up to the house to ski,
shovel, snowshoe, shovel, skate,
shovel, and celebrate with a
dinner at the famous Cascade
Inn Restaurant and Bar, a place
where conversation is dominant
because the TVs are 13 inches
wide and were manufactured
in the 1950s! I love that place.
My son, Christopher, is work-
ing at a job that I frankly do not
understand in NYC (but Make-
peace would), and my daughter,
Jackie, who just finished three
years with Elsevier, a publisher
in the science field, would love
to put her art history degrees
front and center in her life. This
week she is inNewMexico in the
land of Georgia O’Keeffe, just
wallowing in the joy of the art
of a woman whose landscapes
she loves and having amonth to
herself. Nancy, my enormously
energetic and wise spouse, is
still happy in her role as dean
of students at Lawrenceville,
although she will admit she is
beginning to listen to my pleas
to join me in retirement.”
1964
Richard S. Sperry
overcable@aol.com
www.sps.edu/1964
Form Director Rick Sperry
gives us this reunion update:
“As of this writing, over 45
formmates (85 with spouses)
have signed up for our SPS ’64
50th Reunion, which kicks off
May 28 at the Woodstock Inn in
Woodstock, Vt., and continues
to Concord. Major planned
activities are a Friday walk-
ing tour conducted by Ellerbe
Cole ’62, a lecture on SPS his-
tory by former faculty member
Berkley Latimer, Friday dinner
at the Upper, Saturday 50th
reunion crew, formdinner at the
Kimball-Jenkins Estate, and a
departure Sunday brunch at the
new home near SPS of Kyri and
Rob Claflin. SPS Form Agent
Tony Parker and the 50th
planning committee have been
putting the pieces together,
including a first-ever SPS 50th
reunion website, with bios of
now over 50 formmates…all by
our talented website team of
Ted Lichty (on St. John’s) and
Richard Johnson (Seattle).
There is an in memoriam sec-
tion for our 16 formmates lost
since graduation, for whom
there will be a commemoration
at the Friday night dinner. Mike
Howard is heading up the 50th
reunion crew, JB Richardson,
our Woodstock afternoon group
gathering, LivyMiller, our wine
and dinner committee, Bob
Grantier , the in memoriam
committee, and Fred Dillen,
our books and authors com-
mittee. Fred is one of many
SPS ’64 authors including Alex
Shoumatoff, Chris Tilghman,
Ted Morgan, Shep Paine,
Jim Schutze, Ned Downey,
Roland Betts, Rick Ebbeson,
and Bronson Platner. All are
available on Amazon. In other
news: TonyAsvaintra has been
living in Hong Kong and is now
retired from the investment
community, actively playing
golf and pursuing his hobby
of car collecting. His son, Dino
’88 , graduated from SPS, as
have the children of numerous
other formmates. Rob Claflin
says that the new house he has
been building in Concord off
Pleasant Street for the past five
years will be 90% ready for our
Sunday 50th reunion brunch.”
John Staples reports that
“Sarah and I just celebrated
our first (yes...first!) anniver-
sary, and are settling into our
new home in Carmel. She has
a daughter, Halley, who is a
junior at Middlebury, currently
on a semester abroad in Taipei.
My daughter, Banks (Princeton
1996), lives in Ventura, Calif.,
with her pediatrician husband
and her daughter and twin sons.
SonWill (Princeton 2000), who is
a screenwriter in Los Angeles,
is married and has a daughter
and a son on the way. Son Ja-
mie (Middlebury 2007) lives in
San Francisco, where he works
for OPower, an interesting en-
ergy management company. I
am practicing law in Carmel,
and retired some time ago as
a Lieutenant Colonel from the
Air Force Reserves following an
active duty and reserve military
career as a helicopter pilot,
which spanned theMarineCorps
(Vietnam 1970-71), the Califor-
nia Air National Guard, and the
Air Force Reserves. In recent
years I’ve had the pleasure of
seeing Rick Sperry for cocktails
in Pebble Beach and spending
an afternoon on the golf course
with Mike Lanahan , both of
whom were roommates at SPS.
Some of you may remember
Ken Schley ’61, a Sixth Former
whenwewere in the Third Form.
Ken and I got to know each
other shortly after I moved to the
Monterey Peninsula in the early
eighties, and he has been a very
close friend ever since.”
Fred Dillen submits this: My
new novel, Beauty, launched in
March. Some nice early notices,
short, reads fast, no difficult
vocabulary, available at book-
stores or Amazon for Kindle and
iPad, and so on. (See a review of
Beauty in this issue of Alumni
Horae.)
Rick Sperry concludes with
“Many formmates we have not
heard from for many years have
sent in their bios to our 50th
reunion web site at 50threunion
.sps.edu. We’re delighted to hear
from Jamie Niven at Sotheby’s,
Jim Chubb in Aspen, Ned
Downey in Hawaii, Bill Gordon
in Alaska, Bob Grantier in
Toronto, Coby Everdell in San
Francisco…and many others.”
1965
Richard D. Billings
rdbusmc@aol.com
Nat Prentice submits these
updates: “Jim Watkins has
found plenty to do since retir-
ing in 2008 from U.S. Bank as
head of the Trust Department.
Jim notes that he worked in the
same facility and had the same
phone number for 34 years, dur-
ing which time the name of the
bank went from First Wisconsin
National Bank to Firstar then
to US Bank. He and his wife,
Pat, live in Erie, Colo., a short
distance from both Boulder
and Denver. In his eagerness to
help those less fortunate than
himself, Jim oversees the work
Colorado University students do
in helping low income individu-
FORMNOTES
Chris Ross ’69 ponders his next step after 30 years in public service.
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