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birds are most welcome to stay
with us.
Jim Hatch
spent Christmas
with family in Marin, Calif. “My
big event this year (aside from
retiring from active work) was
gettingmarried, and I amenjoy-
ing my new life and wife Kathi.
She has a home in Jupiter, Fla.,
where we will spend most of
January and February.”
Ed Tiffany
shares:
“
Our
daughter, Kathrene, bore a son,
Wyatt Knowles Bell, in October.
We spend time with their two-
year-old daughter, Alden, as
they live down the street.
Peter Pell
spent Christmas in
Locust Valley, N.Y. His daughter,
Allison, and two granddaugh-
ters live nearby. Son Peter and
his wife, Tice, are expecting
their second child. “Since Chris-
tine’s death I have once again
taken up hockey and play with
the lowest level men’s group at
nearby Beaver Dam. Skating
fairly okay thanks to cycling,
however upper body and stick
work equal to Isthmian eighth
and ninth. A formmate who
was an early houseguest at my
new digs described the condi-
tions as Spartan, bordering on
monastic.”
Peter Britton
says that “life
on the farm continues to in-
volve commercial composting,
diverting organic, including
meat from over 60 supermar-
kets, schools, colleges, and
curbside. Another path has me
constructing a mobile climbing
wall modified for experiential
education – includes a cargo
net for climbing, two zipwires
and a jump for life. It is com-
pleted and tested and soon to be
shipped in a 40-foot container
to Rwanda. Who would have
thought either path?”
Eric Herter
writes: “I’m
gearing up for my first return
to Vietnam in four years, partly
to visit the in-laws, and partly
to try to cobble together a film
on what the “American War”
was like from a Vietnamese
perspective.”
Ned Toland
shares: “Life in
Southern California is good, but
it’s hard to believe that we
approached 90 degrees today
– very unusual for December,
and more like October tem-
peratures. Harbingers come
to mind, but let’s not go there.
Being retired from teaching for
11 years has allowed me to de-
vote a good deal of time to
tennis (the BNP Paribas Ten-
nis Tournament is held each
March in Indian Wells). It’s
a privilege to be a tennis club
member there and witness
the likes of Roger Federer and
Novak Djokovic waging seri-
ous battle against one another.
The Episcopal church beckoned
me back about a year ago, and
while many good changes seem
to have occurred in the liturgy,
the church in Palm Desert still
employs its old fashioned Rite I
service, reminding me after all
these years of the hellfire and
brimstone sermons we endured
at SPS so long ago.”
Marshall Bartlett
spent
Christmas inNewYork Citywith
his son, Stephen, his daughter-
in-law, and two wonderful
grandchildren. You may be
interested to know that
Tony
de Bekessy
has surfaced on
the radar of the 50th Reunion
Committee at Princeton.
StuDouglas
still loves skiing
and traveling with his sweet-
heart, Martha.
Tad de Borde-
nave
says: “Connie and I are
enjoying retired life just off the
Potomac. Her high reputation
as an artist of the watermen
around here has me known as
the artist’s husband.”
David
Niven
writes: “I am
currently
between wives, have four really
terrific grown-up kids, ages 23-
33. I spend my time inventing
fun, educational board games
for middle-school-age and less
fortunate inner-city children,
which are donated to schools
and youth organizations by
foundations around the coun-
try. Themost successful is ‘Sou-
venirs’ – a family trivia game
with 3,000 printed questions/
answers about the most famous
historical/cultural manmade
and natural sites in the U.S.
“
JohnShattuck
was inLand-
grove, Vt., for the holidays
with his wife, children, and five
grandchildren before return-
ing to Budapest, where he’s
running the Central European
University and “contending
with autocrats and oligarchs
springing up everywhere east
(and also in some places west)
of Berlin in the post-post Cold
War world.”
Tod Rodger
writes:
“I’m
enjoying lots of good walking
and physical therapy after a
tough year – broken pelvis in
bike accident, back surgery
to relieve pinched nerves,
jaw surgery, and relatively
trivial cataract surgery. It’s
a challenging major adjust-
ment to give up riding, hiking,
kayaking – maybe temporary
or maybe longer. This fall I
got back into coaching crew
between surgeries. Great Bay
Rowing is one of many non-
profit clubs that have sprung
up to promote rowing. We
had about eight adults and 40
high school kids learning to
row and competing. When I
helped Cambridge Boat Club
plan and run the first Head of
the Charles 50 years ago, no
one imagined how popular fall
racing in this format would
become. I’m hoping to continue
when we return to N.H., and
maybe do some rowing myself.”
Bobby Clark
writes: “I am
very lucky because I still get
to see the School a lot. I have
a granddaughter at SPS (Third
Former). She plays on the
field hockey, ice hockey, and
lacrosse teams. I go to most
of the games. Nothing special
but fun with family (11 grand-
children). I am still working but
less time and less pressure. I
am in the office by 7 a.m. and
out by noon. I still enjoy the
camaraderie.”
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Seymour Preston
Seymourp576@gmail.com
Suzanne and I sold our house in
Katonah, N.Y., in December and
moved to our place in Keene
Valley, N.Y. Most of our belong-
ings are stuffed into a 8
’
x 8
½
’
x
20
’
pod. I will continue working
part-time in N.Y.C., with Goldin
Associates, a couple of weeks a
month in the city and home as
matters require. A nice transi-
tion to
JimBarney
’s state of re-
tirement. I will be interested to
see which state has the greater
pull. During the fall of 2014,
Wick Rowland
served as a
Fulbright specialist in Ethiopia,
working with the U.S. Embassy
and the Ethiopian government
on broadcast policy matters.
He advised government agen-
cies on their plans for digital
television conversion, con-
sulted with broadcasters, and
lectured at several universities
on communications history and
policy and the implications of
social and other new media for
developing nations. The winter
2014 edition of the Catlin Gabel
School
Caller
(Portland, Ore.)
Wick Rowland ’62 delivering
the news at Oromia Radio &
Television in Adama, Ethiopia.
