Page 43 - Alumni Horae: Vol. 93, No. 4 Summer 2013

After unconfirmed reports of some
late-night hijinks on Friday evening, our
reunion kicked off in earnest on Saturday
morning, with formmates congregat-
ing on the Chapel lawn for registration,
coffee, and small talk in the face of the
rising heat. The skies were clear and the
grounds as pristine as ever, and we soon
found ourselves following a great number
of bagpipers and older Paulies down Rec-
tory Road. There followed a rising level of
excitement as to how much swim time we
would be able to get in that afternoon.
After lunch, the form made the mass
pilgrimage first to the dock on the Lower
School Pond, and then to the dam, where
we discovered that the rope swings had
not managed to survive these past five
years and that the bridge constructed by
certain unnamed members of our form
as an ISP project had aged so badly that it
had given our collective form a bad name.
Shoddy craftsmanship notwithstanding,
all parties agreed that the experience
of trekking through the grounds and
revisiting hallowed spots in the woods
struck a chord within each person’s being
that was badly needed and beautifully
restorative.
After our chill session spent swimming
and catching up, form members split up,
with some opting to attend the alumni
games and Boat Races and still others
deciding to T the D on the Chapel lawn.
After catching the Flagpole Ceremony,
we decamped to the Days Inn, our well-
appointed home away from home for the
weekend. In varying stages of formality
in dress, we hopped on a school bus for
the short ride to our dinner venue – the
highly touted Tandy’s Top Shelf on Main
Street in Concord. Inside, we received a
warm welcome from the School’s alumni
office and were graced by the presence
of Rector Mike Hirschfeld ’85.
We then turned our attention to the
great food, pool tables, and Boston Bruins
playoff game and savored our first real
social interaction as a form with mem-
bers of the Concord community.
Our crew of 65 strong formmates made
it back to the Days Inn, mostly in one
piece, and found to our great delight the
massive Checkmate order that had been
placed by Courtney Bogle, our wonderful
form director. As the night drew on, form
members posted up in the parking lot and
were joined by alums from other forms,
both old and young, who wished to savor
the dying hours of the night with us in
making merry.
Sunday morning brought plans for
brunch, planes to catch, and some of us
intent on recreating our frelkiest experi-
ences on School grounds. The Form of
2008 may have physically departed, but
the same cannot be said mentally: in fact,
a group is already deep into making plans
to come back up for the six-year.
JANA F. BROWN
LOUIS H. FOISY
JANA F. BROWN
Tom Hearne, Fred Vennat, Trent Blossom,
and Will Morris
Eric Jones, Sophie Hollingsworth, Meherazade Sumariwalla, Xavier Williams, Stephanie
Crocker, and Ellie Roberts
Diego Nuñez, Chaz Plimpton, Justin Ang, Will Morris, and Will Ahmed
Campbell Cannon, Lucy Soderberg, Sophie Evarts, Virginia Nelson, and Annabel Tory
LOUIS H. FOISY
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