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the Pacific – albatrosses, monk
seals, and humpbacks. The Kauai
Food Truck, my fave, made their
own bumper sticker that sums it
up: ‘Kauai has two speeds: slow
and slower.’ I’m working on my
networkmarketing business and
my farmer’s market business.
One is for retirement; the other
for immediate gratification. Both
work with ancient, whole raw
foods consumed as medicine. I
intend to be one of Medicare’s
healthiest seniors! Soooo, I’m
thinking the 50th could be in
Kauai?” Can you imagine the SPS
Hawaii Five-0
Hawaiian shirts?
The “late”
Dawes Cooke
, who
was so late that he regrettably
missed our Four-0, writes: “It
took my daughter’s high school
graduation and two flight can-
cellations to keep me from this
year’s Anniversary. Reading
Charlie’s evocative account of
the weekend onlymadememiss
you more. All is well with the
Cooke family. I am busily prac-
ticing law, mainly civil litigation,
now in my 32nd year with the
same firm. Helen is substitute
teaching and enjoying staying
in touch with our three kids.
Dawes III is doing an internship
at the Freedom House in NYC,
on the first rung of his foreign
service career. George works
with an architecture firm here
in Charleston. Both boys are
engaged to be married, Dawes
this year and George next year.
Celia is a freshman at the Uni-
versity of South Carolina, liv-
ing her dream of tailgating
and rushing sororities. Most
important, everyone is happy,
doing what they want to do. I
hope you’ll come to Charleston
and drop in on us! I’m going to
make it to the 41st if possible,
but Dawes III is getting married
shortly thereafter, so it is pos-
sible I’ll be grounded during the
run-up to the wedding! I hope
I’ll see you, though.”
David Holt
chimes in from
the Great White North: “My son,
Ben, stayed at home in the fall,
preparing to enter a master’s
programin jazz guitar at theUni-
versity of NorthTexas, the oldest
jazz program in the U.S. (and
therefore the world). I continue
to develop the OptiMYz health
and fitness media company,
where I ameditor andpart owner.
I also work on my strategy-
consulting program, with the
help of a designer and a yoga
teacherwho alsodoes animation.
My wife, Donna, and I visited
daughter Claire in Quebec. Here
is the answer to Graeme Boone’s
question about my revelation
at our reunion. Donna had it:
‘Gee, those guys can talk about
anything.’ Meaning: not a bunch
of know-it-alls, but a bunch of
open-minded people. The world
needs more of this.”
Blair Scribner
, whomade an
all-too-brief appearance at our
40th, was appointed director of
themiddle school at the Buckley
School in New York City, where
he also teaches English and
sixth grade. After Penn, his first
teaching gig was at the Indian
Mountain School in Lakeville,
Conn., where John Henry Low’s
daughter, Spencer, is currently
in the fifth grade.
In November, NAPFA – the
National Association for Per-
sonal Financial Advisors – held
its 2012 East Conference at the
Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Md.
John Henry Low attended a
session taught by our own
Rick
Miller
, who co-taught “Un-
derstanding Longevity.” At the
same conference, John Henry
taught a session on “Counter-
Party Risk: The Biggest Risk You
Didn’t Know You Were Taking
with Your Client’s Money.” John
Henry says, “Just like during
our Millville days, Rick and I did
have a few ‘differences of opin-
ion’ on some of the finer points
in our respective presentations.
In our Third Form year at SPS, I
learned very quickly never get
into an argument with Rick, who
would always win them, and
before long he was moving on
to glory with the debating team
under Richard Lederer’s tute-
lage. The odds of two members
of the Form of 1972 speaking at
the same NAPFA Conference
(or even any two SPS alumni)
are lower than the odds of being
struck twice by lightning.”
Larry Woody
writes: “I en-
tered my book into the
Writer’s
Digest
2012 self-published book
contest. I did not win, but here is
what an anonymous judge had to
say. ‘
In Black InWhite
is a highly
entertaining, honestly told per-
sonal story. In the opinion of this
judge, the book’s key strength is
Mr. Woody’s incredibly natural
style of writing. Interspersing
slang and vernacular freely with
standard grammar and usage,
he does a great job of rendering
the gritty city experiences that
shaped him. The reader gets
vivid picture after vivid picture,
with lots of interesting details.
Mr. Woody also does a good job
representing the core values that
he took away from his family
and the streets, as well as the
unusual experience of his being
ripped from familiar surround-
ings and transplanted to a high-
toned prep school, thanks to a
scholarship program. Overall,
an engrossing memoir of a life
well lived.’”
1973
Samuel E. Belk IV
1975
Al Besse
was honored in Oc-
tober: “I’m pleased to say that
I was awarded the William Way
LGBT Community Center’s
inaugural Humanitarian of the
Year award, along with a citation
from the mayor of Philadelphia.
I think the last time I received
such a momentous recognition
was when the Rector presented
me with a set of SPS blazer but-
tons at my graduation.”
Charlie Bronson ’72 enjoying
the local recreation near his
new home on Kauai.
Hawaii
Five-0
(reunion) anyone?
Jack Bogle, founder of the Van-
guard Group, and John Henry
Low ’72 take a break from their
respective speaking engagements
at the November 2012 NAPFA
Conference in Baltimore.
The mayor of Philadelphia pre-
sented Al Besse ’75 (r.) with the
William Way LGBT Community
Center’s inaugural Humanitarian
of the Year award.
