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past leaders of the School, most
notably, Dr. Drury, and most re-
cently, Bill Matthews ’61, who
wrote in a July 10, 2008 letter to
all in the SPS community: ‘How
to serve? That ideal is – and
has always been – at the heart
of a St. Paul’s School education,
where learning in community
aims toward a purpose higher
than personal gain.’
“Is this what today is called
social entrepreneurship? We
invite all within the SPS com-
munity to participate this up-
coming spring on May 18 in
the inaugural SPS Sparks Day
of Service. This Southern New
England event will convene at
the Knowles Mill Park on the
Pawcatuck River in Richmond,
Rhode Island. Please go to www
.spssparks.org to learn more.”
Steve Crandall also reports
that he was hanging out in
Rhode Island with Mark Cam-
eron’s kids, Ian and Shreve,
over the holidays. “Both of them
are so much like Mark, with big
hearts and constant smiles. Ian
has been active in establishing
Middlebury College’s Center
for Social Entrepreneurship
and has been a very helpful
resource in the development of
the SPS Sparks initiative.”
Jamie Hogg reports that his
daughter, Betsy, “took over the
female lead in the Broadway
play Peter and the Starcatcher.
A very amusing ‘prequel’ to
Peter Pan , it won five Tony
Awards and is on the 10 best of
2012 lists of the critics for The
New York Times and The New
Yorker. If you have the time and
inclination, I would recommend
the show (of course, I would
probably recommend the show
even if it was a bomb).”
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Mark M. Wheeler
mwheeler@wtinvestment-
advisors.com
In the true spirit of ’71, Bram
Lewis chose December 21 to
host not the usual holiday get-
together, but a combination
“Mayan End-of-the-World/
Artie Party.” He gathered the
largest group of the faithful
outside a reunion in memory.
Bram was joined by Brook
Boyd, Chris Denison, Ter-
ry Gruber , Tony Hairston,
Woody Pier , Spence Rumsey,
Bill Selby , Peter Seymour,
Nick Shorter, Fred Stillman,
Byam Stevens , Trip Spencer,
Mark Wheeler, and Bill Wood.
A non-SPS friend of Terry’s
wondered aloud, “I can’t believe
you guys still stay in touch with
each other,” but of course he
didn’t experience SPS with us,
so we forgave his curiosity. The
spirit was more than conviv-
ial: reminiscences shared, old
acquaintances renewed, new
friendships begun, and of partic-
ular note, the four we have had
the least to report on over the
past few years gave new depth
to the gathering: Brook Boyd
is having a successful career
in real estate law in New York;
Nick Shorter is head of pediatric
surgery at SUNYDownstate; Bill
Selby is the managing director
at Gabelli Asset Management;
and Bill Wood is director of
business virtualization at Glaxo
Smith Kline.
We wound up around mid-
night, reassured that the world
would not end and there would
be further such evenings to
share. As we filed out, saying
our last goodbyes, our host
stood outside in his shirt-
sleeves, silhouetted by the New
York winter sky, smiling and
waving much in the same way
one of us remembers himunder
a New Hampshire sky many,
many years ago.
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John Henry Low
jhl@knick.com
John Henry Low files this form
report: “And the Oscar goes to…
D.A. Pennebaker! Congratula-
tions to Frazer Pennebaker’s
father. D.A. received an Oscar in
December for lifetime achieve-
ment for his work in documen-
tary filmmaking. Frazer lives
with his wife Pam in New York
City. His son Nate is attending
Pitzer College in Los Angeles
and his daughter Mae attends
Trinity College in Hartford. Af-
ter graduating from Hampshire
College, Frazer has been the
producer at Pennebaker Hege-
dus since 1980 and has produced
all of D.A. Pennebaker’s films.
When I asked Frazer about his
meteoric career path, he rather
humbly recounted the history as
(loosely interpreted here) ‘One
day I was working as a carpenter
in the office and I was asked if I
wanted to be a producer.’ Frazer
has numerous credits, includ-
ing The War Room, Kings of
Pastry, Daytime-Emmy-award-
winning Elaine Strich: At Liberty,
and another 18 titles on IMDB.”
Charlie Bronson writes: “I
recently quit my job in health-
care IT to move to Kauai. The
job was very stressful and in-
tense, with a long, complex,
multi-dimensional sales cycle,
although I believe the future
of our healthcare system will
come out of the incredible work
begin done by the professionals
in Medicaid HMOs, my former
clients. I moved to Kauai for a
simpler lifestyle, but also for
the opportunity to serve oth-
ers directly, one-on-one. My
work now impacts each person
immediately, which is more
fulfilling than B2B sales. I live
on a farm from where I can see
FORMNOTES
At the Oscar dinner, front row (l. to r.): Chris Hegedus, D.A.
Pennebaker, and Frazer Pennebaker ’72. Second row (l. to r):
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
Charlie Read ’70 and Pat Currie
’70 exploring the Pantheon in
Rome in June 2012.
Hy Blair ’70, Steve Crandall ’70,
and Craig MacColl ’70 (not
pictured) teed it up in Denver
in September 2012.