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REUNIONS
LOUIS H. FOISY
35th: Form of 1978
FORM PHOTO (l. to r.), row 1: Liz Cave, Cynthia Colt, Linda Richards Bolesta, Leslie
Groves, Wizzy Deans, Angus Beavers, Sandy Burchill; row 2: Jess Baily, Thor Thors,
Chip Olney, Anne Butterfield, Ted Erhard, Katie Thayer McCammond, Lita Remsen,
Lisa Hughes, Carolyn Revercomb; row 3:Judd Nelson, Frank Hunnewell, Curtis Starr,
Amy Nobu, Andrew Rose, Arthur Bingham, Tom Luz, Quinny Zimmerman, Nora
Tracy Phillips; row 4: Rob Rout, Graham Galloway, Earle Simpson, Tim Steinert, Dan
Smith, Kevin Foley, Michael Haney, Jon Old, John Tweedy
At Home at Our 35th Reunion
by Anne Bartol Butterfield
I just ain’t got the time and I’m wasted and
I can’t find my way home.
– Steve Winwood
If the form of ’78 has a theme song, this is
it. Like a crazy Chapel chime, these lines
act as homing beacons through our heads,
soaked into us on many a Saturday night
in the 1970s by the singing of KT Thayer.
And home we were at our 35th reunion,
swaddled in a rare May heat that made us
avoid tight, wet embraces, putting energy
onto the kisses instead. And with them
came confessions. Up rose themes of loss
and renewal, corruption observed, and
service pursued.
Nora Phillips’s dad, Mr. Tracy, died five
years ago, so she chose to take on form
director, to connect with us a man she
deems so special. Linda Richards Bolesta
told of how the Teamsters, among others,
ran her film shop into a well-timed
liquidation – for the crime of getting too
good. To the suggestion of “going along”
to keep afloat, Linda protested: “I’m not
good enough at math to run two sets of
books!” Now there’s a lack of math to make
Sheilah Mahry and Leslie Groves
JANA F. BROWN
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