Page 17 - Alumni Horae: Vol. 93, No. 4 Summer 2013

After Chapel, we gathered on Rectory
Road and paraded in 93-degree weather
all the way to the cool Matthews Hockey
Center, where the rink was set up for
lunch. The high temperature prompted
the School to dispense with coats and ties
throughout the weekend, even in Chapel.
It was nevertheless a beautiful day – you
could say a “Halcyon” day – except that in
the afternoon the Shattucks swept all of
the five crew races.
The climax of our visit was a congenial
dinner at the Rectory hosted by Mike
Hirschfeld ’85 and his wife, Liesbeth, for
the Forms of 1938, 1943, and 1948, after
which an SPS van carried us back to our
hotel in Concord. It should be noted that
throughout the day shuttle buses and golf
carts provided transportation, eliminating
the need for a car. The cheerful support
of the staff to the welfare and convenience
of old-timers, especially the handicapped,
was nothing short of remarkable.
Tours of the new Lindsay Center for
Mathematics and Science were scheduled.
Displayed in addition to state-of-the-art
classrooms and labs were a robotics work-
shop, a Foucault pendulum, a solar obser-
vatory, and a room with a retractable
sphere, on which images can be projected
in amazing ways. The latter feature is not
available in any other high school.
Another new facility not scheduled but
worth a visit is the 85-acre Winant Park,
located about 100 yards up Fisk Road
(which in our day was the route to row-
ing at Long Pond) just outside the School
gate. Trails from the commemorative
pavilion there allow climbing to the top of
Fisk Hill. This park was created in coop-
eration with St. Paul’s by our late friend
Riv Winant, in memory of his illustrious
father, John G. Winant of the Form of
1908, former SPS teacher, N.H. governor,
and ambassador to the UK during WWII.
Norm Walker and Win Shiras Bob Deans displays his form sign
The Forms of 1938 through 1958 gathered in Coit for a multi-form dinner
WENDY CAHILL
PETER FINGER
LOUIS H. FOISY
Rob Deans IV ’08, Rob Deans III ’73, Bob Deans Jr. ’43, and “Wizzy” (Deans) Mooney ’78 17