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Lessons and Carols service at
the Church of the Advent in
Boston, where I ran into form
agent Mike Sweeney and his
wife, Kathie, and Penny Gray-
son, sister of Jim Moorhead
and mother of Lucy Grayson
’01 and Daphne Grayson ’06.
I still get out on the ice a bit
as a referee. Sweeney is trying
to talk me into trying that Red
Bull Crashed Ice Course thing
in Quebec in March with him.”
Larry Woody sent in a link
(youtu.be/iSFd_WTp6bo) to a
YouTube page featuring “Pris-
oner’s Lament,” a song and
video he wrote. Larry told me:
“I wrote ‘Prisoner’s Lament,’
inspired by Nelson Mandela, 27
years ago. Coincidentally, that is
the number of years he spent in
prison. The photos [in the video]
were taken at Eastern State
Penitentiary in Philadelphia,
Pa. I admired him. The song
also reflects my feelings around
the phenomenon of racism, and
apartheid embodies that sort of
evil. Yet the song is hopeful – I
think.” The link is in our Yahoo
Group along with a copy of the
lyrics.
Dawes Cooke writes: “All is
well in Charleston. Dawes III
was married in June, which kept
me from attending our Four-
One. George will be married in
April. Celia is a sophomore at
the University of South Caro-
lina. This year I was given the
Worthy Adversary Award by
the South Carolina Association
for Justice, which is the orga-
nization of plaintiffs’ attorneys.
That is sort of like being elected
homecoming queen, but it’s a
nice honor nevertheless!”
David Holt, our prodigious
Great White North correspon-
dent, reports: “My daughter,
Claire, married Nathan King
in a village near Sherbrooke,
Quebec, on October 13 –Ca-
nadian Thanksgiving! Nathan
is a physiotherapist who works
with athletes at Bishops Uni-
versity and also with several
of Canada’s national teams. He
is a golfer and has my eclectic
reading tastes. Guests included
my sister, Linda Fairchild ’73,
who lives in the Bay Area. Our
son Ben is studying jazz guitar
in Texas.”
Halsted Wheeler sent in a
mystery photo of one of our
formmates “holding his trophy
fish.” This calls for a little con-
test: First to correctly identify
the formmate gets highlighted
in the next issue of our Alumni
Horae formnotes.
Doug Chan shared this up-
date: “San Francisco Mayor Ed-
win Lee appointedme to serve a
six-year termon the city’s five-
member Civil Service Com-
mission, which oversees the
city government’s workforce.
I served previously as the vice
chairman of the San Francisco
Human Rights Commission.”
John Henry Low concludes:
“Happy Birthday to the Form
of 1972! Most of us are turn-
ing the big Six-0 and have
enjoyed hearing about some of
our celebrations. Please send
in news of your reaching the
milestone, particularly when
you include a formmate or two
in the celebration.”
1973
Jose Maldonado
jmaldon54@gmail.com
JoseMaldonado writes: “It was
a treat to reconnect last spring
with so many of you during our
40th anniversary. Q Belk did a
spectacular job organizing the
weekend.
“On a personal note, I’m
happy to report that our son
Alejandro (Ali) ’17 is thriv-
ing and thoroughly enjoying
his Third Form year at SPS. A
good thing for the School, he
is so much not like me. He is a
member of the Chapel Choir (do
I remember going to Chapel?),
club hockey (aMaldonado play-
ing hockey?) and getting good
grades (I’ll leave that one alone).
In all seriousness, over the last
year, I’ve visited the School quite
often and am deeply impressed
with the curriculum, focus on
community service, diversity,
and facilities (Lindsay Center, in
particular) the School offers. As
the parent of an SPS kid, I know
that Ali is fully embracing it all.
Peter Patton shares: “I at-
tended a DanceAfrica event in
Philadelphia set up by Terri
Shockley, wife of Ed Shockley
’74. Ed was also there and doing
much better after a stroke about
a year ago.”
John Campbell shared this:
“I noticed in a recent issue of
Alumni Horae the return of
woodenplaques as sponsored by
our form’s fellowship grant. Nice
to see that tradition revived.”
This January update from
Rob Houghton: “After teach-
ing for 25 years and being a
principal of a middle school
program for 11 years, I have
left education (but I am sure not
permanently) and am pursuing
(while I still have the energy)
photography, so I have returned
to my old SPS nickname of
‘Hotophoto!’ If the spirit moves,
you can check out my website at
www.robhoughtonphotography
.com. It has been a hefty learn-
ing curve, and I am eager to get
back to more photojournalistic
work, but I love being a learner
again. My wife of 23 years has
been a French teacher at Mid-
dlesex School here in Concord,
Mass., for 29 years now, so both
of my kids (20 and 17) have gone
there, something I hope SPS
will not see as switching al-
legiances but adding new ones.
My daughter is at NYU and cur-
rently studying in Berlin, and
my son just got into Hamilton
College early decision, so we
are all breathing more easily
these days.”
1974
Art Sistare
sasart@sbcglobal.net
www.sps.edu/1974
1975
Randy Blossom
randy.blossom@blossominsur-
ance.com
In November, Diana Olney
wrote: “After 20 years of selling
business information products
and consulting services for
large companies such as Reu-
ters, S&P, and IHS, I resigned!
I decided to leave the large
company environment and start
my own business. This past fall,
I launched a marketing busi-
ness to expand the brand of J.
Hilburn Men’s Clothier for the
Washington, D.C., area and am
really enjoying starting a ven-
ture in a totally new industry.
SPS taught us to be resource-
ful and resilient, and building
a business certainly requires
these attributes, along with
making sure to seek out enjoy-
ment every step of the way. Not
much time for golf right now,
but hopefully I can return to my
former addiction next summer.
If you are in the D.C. area and
need great-fitting men’s cloth-
ing made with the finest Italian
fabrics, look up DianaOlney
.JHilburn.com or check Face-
book at JHilburnMetroDC.”
1977
Annie O’Herron Burleigh
annie.oh.burleigh@gmail.com
Beth Frank sent us a note:
“2014 was a year of ordinations
for me. After receiving my
M.Div. from Bexley Hall, I was
ordained to the transitional dia-
conate of the Episcopal Church.
The Right Reverend Mark Hol-
lingsworth Jr. ’72 , Bishop of