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in the Hands music group in
Brooklyn, and Abigail ’02 will
be a third-year Columbia law
student. “Much to be grateful
for,” Coby says.
David Irons writes that his
article, “How to Paint a Legend,”
will lead the Cultural Index sec-
tion of the September issue of
Departures magazine. The ar-
ticle reports on the retrospec-
tive exhibition of the work of
Balinese wayang painter Ketut
Madra that he’s curating at the
Museum Puri Lukisan in Ubud.
“If there are any classmates
who’ve always wanted to visit
Bali, mid-October of this year
would be ideal. A half-dozen
friends from NYC and the Bay
Area are joining us.”
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David Parshall
dparshall@peifunds.com
Neil Malloy and I had a delight-
ful lunch together in New York
in June, getting caught up on
the past 48 years! Neil has lived
most of his life in Venezuela and
has spent much of his profes-
sional career with an interna-
tional steel business, initially as
its chief financial officer and, in
more recent years, as chairman.
He visits the U.S. several times
a year, often to see his daughter
and grandchildren inMiami and
(bravo!) has committed that he
and his wife will join us at our
50th reunion. In the meantime,
he has graciously offered to
greet any of us who might be
traveling to Caracas. After our
lunch, Neil and I took a stroll
along Central Park to the Simón
Bolívar monument, where I took
the included photograph of
him. Look closely. He is holding
a copy of Bill Oates’s recently
published papers, Views from
the Rector’s Porch.
Nat Prentice shares: “For
one reason or another, I had
the opportunity to talk recently
with a few of our formmates,
all of whom had good news to
share. The main themes that
developed were grandchildren,
getting used to or considering
retirement, and, in a few cases,
making the decision to move
after living many years in the
same place.
Just breaking into the ranks
of grandparents and very
proudly so are Ed Bartlett,
Chris Herter, Dick Livings-
ton, and David Parshall. Our
pacesetters in grandchildren
are David Martin with sev-
en, Bob Young with four, Jim
Gibbons with four, and Rick
Billings with two, including a
recent addition. All are doing
well, especially Gibbo, who has
established residency in Maine,
Mass., and Fla. in addition to his
place in New York City since
his retirement from JP Morgan
Chase.
Roy Farwell is getting used to
retirement and seems to like his
role as “houseboy.” He spends
a lot of time at the gym and
performing weekly gigs with his
band.
Mike Yahng, who put the
Silicon Valley Bank on the map
in China, is contemplating re-
tirement, but may be too impor-
tant to actually do so. Many of
those I talked with, however, fall
under the category of (happy to
work for the foreseeable future,
but not as hard as I used to).
I was fortunate to spend some
in-person time with Andrew
Wylie, who in a most friendly
manner offered to help my
younger son, Rhett ’06, with
his would-be career in the art
business. As many of you know,
Andrew has built an excellent
business as a literary agent,
and his client list is most im-
pressive. He has come to know
some extraordinary people over
the course of his career, and his
stories are very entertaining.
Andrew has fond memories of
his SPS days.
Those members of our form
who have recently moved are
Sandy Faison, who said, “the
hell” with Tarrytown, N.Y., and
moved to Eagle, Colo.; Chris
Herter, who followed his lady-
friend to Gloucester, Mass., after
many years in Portland, Maine;
and Dick Livingston, who fol-
lowed his forefathers toHudson,
N.Y., after rearing two daughters
in New Canaan, Conn.
David Parshall writes this
update: “In January, Lexie and
George Howard hosted Debby
and Peter Twining and Martha
and David Martin for a restful
and quite glorious winter week-
end at their house on St. John’s
Island in Florida. The order of
every day was: 1. catching up
after too many years; 2. good
food and fun; and 3. many
memories and long walks down
both memory lane and golden
sands, pretty much all at once.
And, to add to that, Cindy and
Hunt Rounsavall joined the
group one evening, predictably
taking the humor and charm
factors to new heights.
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Thomas J. Iglehart
tom@iglehart.net
Bob Stevenson , president and
CEO of the Eastman Machine
Company, was profiled in Tho-
mas Friedman’s book That Used
to Be Us. The Eastman Machine
Company, a fifth-generation
family-owned business estab-
lished in 1888, today boasts “a
broad base of elite customers in
the wind energy, marine, com-
posites, military, aerospace, and
Formmates from 1965 enjoyed a respite from the January cold
on St. John’s Island in Florida, (l. to r.): Debby and Peter Twining,
George and Lexie Howard, and Martha and David Martin
Neil Malloy ’65 in front of the
Simón Bolívar monument in
Central Park, holding a copy of
Bill Oates’s published papers,
Views from the Rector’s Porch.
Charles Scribner ’69 and grand-
daughter Elizabeth enjoying
some classics at the Metropolitan
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