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from the Schoolhouse. Many noted con-
versations immediately picked up where
they had paused years ago, along with
entirely new conversations involving
things we never knew, including many
social and geographic links among us.
We were joined by an extended family
that included 15 wives, one young son (of
Charlie Musser), two daughters (of John
Hagerty), two grandchildren (of George
Birchard), and one parent (Mr. Charles
Hickox ’39). Natalie Adams, wife of J.Q.
Adams and a 1970 Concord Academy
graduate, updated an old cliché about
the arrival of girls civilizing St. Paul’s,
reporting that the arrival of boys at C.A.
made the girls nicer to each other too.
Co-education is apparently the biggest
win-win ever.
After lingering over wine provided
by Rob Deford’s Boordy Vineyards, and
with reunion polo shirts in hand, some,
including Burke Ross, Todd Rulon-Miller,
and Pete Flynn, continued on to the
Common Man in Concord for even more.
A delightfully full Saturday started early
with group breakfasts at the country inns
where most stayed, a packed memorial
service in the Chapel, self-guided tours
of sculpture by Joseph Wheelwright ’66
at Hargate and of the new Lindsay Center
for Mathematics and Science, the Alumni
Parade marked by student shout-outs
to Bob Rettew, and a lunch with kilted
bagpipers who preceded the Form of
2014 in a march through the alumni
throng. At the Flagpole Ceremony, John
Hagerty was called up and joined by other
past Gordon and Loomis Medal recipients
to congratulate this year’s winners.
The Colby Hill Inn in Henniker was
canopied by stars for our Saturday dinner
(no shepherd’s pie), where Procter Smith
arrived to complete our turnout and
George and Joanne Carlisle attended as
WENDY CAHILL
Doug Stewart, Paul Reingold, and Phil and MaryAnne von Stade
David Burling, John Bronson, Daphne DeLong, and Todd Rulon-Miller
guests of honor. All prior form agents
and form directors of SPS 1969 were
recognized with specially engraved
glasses, while newly elected – and now
very dearly departed – Form Director Joe
Walker spoke about plans he was already
making for our 50th. Tom Iglehart’s new
video and photo retrospective set to
music slipped us easily into a late-night
reverie, recovering things otherwise lost
in the swirl of time.
Late Sunday afternoon, after a small
but hilarious lunch at the Rettews’ and a
glimpse of the Form of 2014 graduation,
two of us paddled up Turkey Pond to the
dam, an area largely unchanged for hund-
reds of years. Our kayaks coasted as the
shadows lengthened. A great blue heron
folded up its six-foot wing span and picked
its way through the grass when, suddenly,
its magnificent beak shot into the water,
bringing up a small black fish, our closing
reminder of life racing on and on, within
us and without us. Our 50th calls.
Joe Walker, Eliot Larson, Bill Reedy, Tom Whitney, and Dave LeBreton played golf before Anniversary Weekend
LOUIS H. FOISY
LOUIS H. FOISY
LOUIS H. FOISY
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