36
Commission is responsible for
overseeing the introduction
and regulation of the casino
industry in the state, an in-
dustry about which I knew
absolutely nothing. But I’m
learning fast. On an unrelated
note, I remarried in April 2014
to Ann (Godfrey) Ogilvie. We
now live happily in Cambridge
and Dartmouth, Mass.”
Dulany Howland
writes:
“Vicki and I are the proud
grandparents of nine grand-
children – five boys and four
girls. Grandchildren keep you
young and can quickly fix your
electronics. I saw
Lewis Ruth-
erfurd
at Bailey’s Beach in
Newport this past summer.”
1964
Rufus Botzow
rcbotzow@charter.net
Rick Sperry
reports on a great
SPS ’64 rendezvous in France:
“Before our 50th reunion two
years ago, a group of 12 form-
mates and spouses gathered
in Umbria, Italy. We had such
a great time that we decided
to get together again, this time
for a week in early October in
Provence, where we rented a
lovely chateau called “Arc en
Ciel” just south of the pictur-
esque market town of Lourma-
rin in Vaucluse.
Rob Claflin
and
Haven Pell
(plus wives, Kyri
and Simmy) were the organiz-
ers. They were joined by Bonnie
and
Bill Gordon
, Anne and
Bob Walmsley
,
Peter Gerry
and Taylor Terhune,
Jad Rob-
erts, Mike Howard
, Claire and
Tony Parker
, Mina and
Chuck
Coggeshall
, Nancy Collins, and
me. Lourmarin is a lovely town
with great restaurants and a
wonderful Thursday open-air
food and craft market. Side
trips included visits to nearby
Cucuron (site of the Russell
Crowe film
A Good Year
), the
medieval cities of Goult, Gordes,
Avignon and its famed pa-
pal palace, Aix-en-Provence,
Arles, with its ancient Roman
coliseum, and the Saturday
antiques market at L’Isle sur
la Sorque, among others. We
dined as a group in many of the
small area restaurants most
evenings, or also just stayed and
relaxed at Arc en Ciel, where we
enjoyed the local French cook-
ing of our hosts. Several in our
group made extended side trips
either before or after the week
together – the Coggeshalls and
Sperrys in Catalonia, Spain,
and then Barcelona, where the
Coggeshalls also met Patty and
Livy Miller
. Exploring Catalo-
nia, the Costa Brava, Barcelona,
and parts of the Basque Country
added a whole new dimension
to the trip. Significant GPS and
navigational issues aside, it was
a wonderful adventure. Overall,
our group had a terrific time
together and we are already
thinking about our next out-
ing, perhaps two years hence
to Ireland.”
David Irons
sends this: “In
January, I spoke on “The Story-
telling Art of Bali” to an invited
audience at the American Mu-
seum of Natural History in New
York City. After curating two
exhibitions of Balinese Wayang
painting (Google that) at the
Museum Puri Lukisan in Ubud,
Bali, in 2013 and 2014, I am now
working with co-authors on a
descriptive book about Bali-
nese ceremonial daggers, called
keris
. The book is illustrated
with photos of many of these
that I bought while living in Bali
for a year in 1973. I’m doing at
70 what I thought I wanted to
do at 28. Working with Balinese
artists and scholars is a whole
lot easier with today’s technol-
ogy than it was 40 years ago,
when most of Bali still had no
electricity. Getting there, how-
ever, is still a 30-hour trip.”
Alex Shoumatoff
reports:
“I was hoping to be golfing my
way into the sunset about now
and have been trying to wind
down my writing career, which
I only have had for the last half
century because I learned to
write at SPS, but it’s refusing
to cooperate (as
Robert Muel-
ler
’62
pointed out in a recent
article in
Alumni Horae
, “not
everybody gets to learn how to
write”). Just putting the finish-
ing touches on my 11th book,
and the first in 20 years,
From
Bedford to Borneo: The Educa-
tion of an Animist
, and working
on the excerpt that will be in the
March
Smithsonian
. Heading
off with my wife, Rosette, for
the Jaipur Literature Festival,
a huge love-fest for the writ-
ten word attended by 100,000
and 200-plus writers, where
I will be on three panels. And
I just became a grandfather!
Life is good. The day ain’t long
enough.”
1965
Randy Morgan
wyndmoor@comcast.net
John Rice
jwrice460@gmail.com
Angus McLane
shares: “I still
live and work in the Pacific
Northwest. I teach a popular
parenting class called Triple P:
Positive Parenting Program, a
program from the University
of Queensland, Australia. The
course is widely taught in many
countries in North and South
America, Europe, and Asia. So,
I travel a lot as a contracted
trainer, mostly in the States.
My classes are small groups
of counselors, nurses, social
FORMNOTES
Formmates from 1964, spouses, and friends gathered for dinner
in France, (clockwise from l.): Haven Pell, Taylor Terhune, Bob
Walmsley, Mike Howard, Jad Roberts, Kyri Claflin, Bill Gordon,
Simmy Pell, Rob Claflin, Mina Coggeshall, Anne Walmsley, Chuck
Coggeshall, and Bonnie Gordon.
Jeff Wheelwright ’65 on one of
his backpacking adventures.
Formmates from 1967 (l. to r.): Frank Van Dusen, Corky Moore,
and Ham Clark in the Grand Canyon before their successful – but
totally soaking – run through the Colorado River’s Lava Falls Rapids.
