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Civil War Soldier and Spy. Ac-
cording to our renowned film
critic Larry, this is “a sharp,
honest, beautifully shot piece
of film-making.”
Jeffrey Keith reports “I did
get a studio visit – too brief –
from Charlie Marburg ’73 a
month or so ago. He is painting
diligently, as we artists must,
and was very kind with his
words about my work. (This
is why I say his visit was too
brief.)” Jeffrey also sent in a
photo of his recent work “More
Sail!” a whimsical “cartoon”
(on mylar) that shows how he
plans to win the 2014 Quissett
Yacht Club/Quissett Harbor
Invitational Herreshoff S Class
Regatta, August 2-3, 2014. All
formmates and Paulies in gen-
eral are invited to cheer him
on. And those who bring along
S Boats are invited to compete
against him. For those who have
not had the pleasure of sailing
with Jeffrey, the red boat has an
uncanny resemblance to Jef-
frey’s red Herreshoff S boat, the
Coyote, which he has lovingly
restored. This picture also looks
like his strategy for a challenge
he has made to race against
your humble scribe’s ice boat,
the Cold Front. The Cold Front
enjoyed an extraordinary sea-
son sailing on very thick ice on
the mighty, tidal Hudson River
while accompanied by many ice
boats, including many famous
restored ice yachts that were
originally sailed in the Hudson
River Ice Yacht Club by famous
Hudson River families such as
the Roosevelts, Astors, Living-
stons, Aldriches, Vanderbilts,
and others. The Hudson River
fleet was also joined by the
North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and
Yacht Club of Red Bank, N.J., and
their fleet of famous ice yachts
from the late 1800s. One of the
highlights was the recently
restored Rocket of Red Bank,
N.J., a 50-foot behemoth, which
sailed with the Hudson River
50 footer, the Jack Frost . For
those who don’t sail ice boats
regularly, these 50-footers are
very rare, since most of the his-
toric fleet is in the 25- to 35-foot
range, while most modern ice
boats are 12 to 20 feet long. This
year’s Hudson River ice sailing
was widely covered in themedia,
including The New York Times
and the NBC Evening News. And
finally, speaking of ice, those of
uswho are ice-obsessed enjoyed
an “old fashioned” winter here
in the Northeast and northern
climes, which reminded me of
that January in 1969 when we
were in the Third Form and
walked from the Quadrangle
to the Upper (now Coit) every
morning for breakfast when the
mornings were 30 below zero
for two or three straight weeks.
In addition to allowing for great
ice sailing and other outdoor
winter sports, David Holt, edi-
tor of OptiMYz, Canada’s leading
health and fitness magazine,
enlisted yours truly and my
wife, Constanza, to submit a
column about this year’s Red
Bull Crashed Ice Finals in Old
Quebec inMarch. Hopefully you
can look for our piece in a future
issue of OptiMYz . As this sport
is getting increasingly popular,
and in the interest of keeping
SPS on the cutting edge, I have
nominated SPS hockey players
Eric Carlson and Form Agent
Mike Sweeney as competitors
for Crashed Ice 2015. Your SPS
hockey skills (and hockey pads)
will come in handy navigating
the breathtaking (OK, treach-
erous) downhill ice-skating
course that is 400 meters long
with 40 meters of vertical drop.
Tryouts and qualifiers begin
in November 2014. Good luck.
Please continue to send in news
of your reaching the milestone,
particularly when you include a
formmate or two in the celebra-
tion. And check out some of the
links and photos in our form’s
Yahoo and LinkedIn Groups.”
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Donald A. Keyser
dakeyser@fiduciary-trust.com
Victoria Wilson-Charles
sends news from the Pacific
Northwest: “We have a new
winemaker this year and are
anticipating his first vintage
with us, including a late-har-
vest Chardonnay, which could
be a once-in-a-lifetime experi-
ence from our Oregon hillside.
Tanaya, our oldest, loves Car-
FORMNOTES
“More Sail!” Ink on mylar (2014), by Jeffrey Keith ’72, showing
how he plans to win the Quissett Yacht Club Regatta this August.
Emilio (Lin) Giralt ’72 teaching
at Rice University.
In February, Larry Woody ’72
performed a set of his original
songs at The Meetinghouse in
Philadelphia, Pa.
Earlier this year, Tiffany and Jon Sweet ’78 packed up their LA
brood – Harrison (13), Owen (11), and Samantha (5) – and flew
to New York for a house party with Melissa and Thor Thors ’78
and their brood – Gardner (12) and Wilson (10).
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