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Alumni Horae
. I think most – if
not all – of us wish not to draw
attention, even though the
purpose is that. SPS remains
ingrained in our memories, if
not in our lives. Certainly for
me. I miss our classmates a ton
andhopewe have a record turn-
out for our 45th in 2017. Thank
you for hounding and inspiring
us, John. Your ‘beseechments’
do not go unheeded.”
John Chapin
writes us from
his home in Raleigh, N.C., that he
and his wife, Terry, returned to
the School inDecember to attend
the annual Lessons and Carols
service and the performance of
the
Nutcracker
. He shares: “On
a balmy 62-degree afternoon,
we toured the grounds with
former master Denny Doucette
and saw the marvelous Lindsay
Center for Math and Science,
whichDenny insists should have
had ‘science’ come first when
it was named. We have been
summertime neighbors of the
Doucettes in Hancock, Maine,
where we have adjacent homes
overlooking Frenchman’s Bay.
We also have a home next to the
Blue Ridge Parkway in Blowing
Rock, N.C. If anyone from the
Form of ’72 is planning a trip
near any of these locales, we’d
be very pleased to have you stay
with us.”
David Holt
reports: “My son,
Ben, graduated from the Uni-
versity of North Texas with a
master’s in jazz guitar. We were
there for his recital. Daughter
Claire and her husband, Nathan,
moved to Halifax from Quebec.
She is working for a recruiting
firm. I visited my Norwegian
relatives in September, tooled
around with Jaguar Klubb of
Norway; kayaked on Oslof-
jord with an old friend I met in
Marblehead, Mass., in 1963;
played golf in the rain with my
father’s younger brother, Teddy,
who was just back from his old
school in Oxford. ‘So, David,
what would we be doing if we
weren’t playing golf?’ he asked.
‘Wewould just be sitting at home
doing nothing.’ Punch line: He
had his 96th birthday a few days
later. On my mother’s side, my
aunt Carla Emerson Furlong,
aged 93, played harp with the
Newfoundland Symphony Or-
chestra in November 2015. She
played Newfoundland Scene, an
evocative harp piece written for
her years ago bymy grandfather,
Frederick Emerson.”
Your humble scribe and his
family (Constanza and daughter
Spencer) spent some time with
David Holt
’s Aunt Carla and
her family when we all visited
Newfoundland for some wilder-
ness travel adventures in June.
It was a special treat to spend
time with them, and in addition
to their wonderful hospitality
and graciousness, they taught
us much about Newfoundland’s
fascinating history, culture,
and language. Newfoundland
is simply stunning. Our adven-
tures included icebergs (we saw
hundreds of them, even close
up in a zodiac boat), breath-
taking mountains (one giving
the opportunity to walk on the
Earth’smantle), whales, Atlantic
puffins, and other pelagic birds,
(even a Newfoundland dog or
two), drinking plenty of iceberg
water, and, perhaps more im-
portantly, iceberg martinis.
Please keep your cards and
letters and photos coming in.
And, good night, Mrs. Cala-
bash, wherever you are.
1973
Jose Maldonado
jmaldon54@gmail.com
Peter Patton
was in touch and
said his law work keeps him
busy settling one case when
another one pops up.
Rob Deans
reports a suc-
cessful annual golf outing with
Alden Stevens
and
Homer
Chisholm
in Georgetown, S.C.,
in October. Rob reports that
“not surprisingly, Alden is still a
remarkable athlete and usually
comes out ahead.”
Jim Brooke
sends news
on his whereabouts: “Greet-
ings from Kyiv, Ukraine, (that’s
the current spelling). After
18 months turning around
a newspaper in Cambodia, I
moved here over Thanksgiving
weekend to help boost the
Kyiv
Post
, Ukraine’s only English
language newspaper. With a
huge international website
presence (150,000 U.S., Cana-
dian, U.K., and German web
visitors each month), the
Kyiv
Post
has become the West’s
window on Ukraine. Flights
between Russia and Ukraine
were cut in October, making it
harder for the Moscow-based
foreign press corps to come
down here. So, the
Kyiv Post
has a big responsibility to cover
the Russian-fed war in the
east, the fight for free market
reforms in Ukraine, and the
ongoing battle against corrup-
tion. The EU started free trade
with Ukraine on January 1, and
now plans visa-free tourism for
Ukrainians later this year. The
east-west battle is on for the
future of Europe’s largest coun-
try. I am working here in Kyiv
to upgrade the paper and the
website. Starting in February,
I also will be in and out of N.Y.,
Washington, and Toronto, partly
to organize Ukraine investment
forums. I hope to catch up with
formmates when I am on the
East Coast.”
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Chris Rulon-Miller
chrisrulon@mac.com
News from
Ken Williams
: “My
daughter, Brianna, just com-
pleted her first semester at the
University of Delaware. I’ve
been in touch with
Ed Shock-
ley, Rob Porter
, and
Wayne
Gilreath
and I’m trying to ar-
FORMNOTES
Al Besse ’75 (l.) and husband Scott Evers, with dogs Jackson and
Jake, at their home on Casey Key, Fla.
On Martin Luther King Day (l. to r.), Carl Lovejoy ’75, Michael
Fosberg, Gregg Townsend ’75, and Chris Pope ’75 joined the SPS
community at Memorial Hall to watch Michael’s play,
Incognito
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