Beginning this month I’ll be covering classmates working in the arts or communications—please send your news, plus if you’re doing art as a hobby or collecting art!


From Ted Mortimer: “I spent most of the 1980s in L.A. playing in a wide variety of groups, writing and recording and generally pursuing my musical dreams. Relocated back to the Upper Valley in 1987, when I formed a band called Dr. Burma, which enjoyed a long and fruitful run as one of the top R&B bands in the northern New England area. At various times the band included Doug Southworth ’73, Michael Geilich ’79, Don Glasgo, leader of the Barbary Coast, and my wife, Linda Boudreault, as lead vocalist. After 27 years we disbanded that band last year. I’m currently playing alt-country with the Stone Cold Roosters as well as some solo and duo shows. I’ve also recently joined a terrific band called the Party Crashers as guitarist and vocalist. Music is and always will be my first love!”


From Charley Monagan: “Forty-three years of writing and editing and still at it. The work has included newspaper reporting, magazine writing, eight books (The Neurotic’s Handbook, How to Get a Monkey into Harvard), speeches for the Connecticut governor and, in order to pay the children’s college tuition, 25 years as editor of Connecticut Magazine, which I left two years ago. I’m now freelancing, most notably including book and lyrics for a musical, Mad Bomber, produced by a regional theater here in Connecticut and named Best Musical of the Year in a national competition run by L.A.-based Musicals Inc. Currently I’m fighting through yet another challenge, a novel—my first—that’s an imagining of the tumultuous life of an actual Connecticut woman, Carrie Welton, who lived from 1842 to 1884. Getting inside the head of a troubled, fiercely independent, sexually confused woman of 150 years ago has been great fun. Meanwhile I’ve been married happily to Marcia these 32 years, with three kids raised and set loose into the world following expensive outings at Johns Hopkins, Fordham and Dartmouth. All remain single and their mother is getting anxious.”


From Ted Loughman: “I’m writing a book about my dad’s World War II boat, the USS Macaw, a submarine rescue vessel that ran aground at Midway January 16, 1944, attempting to rescue her first submarine, the USS Flier, which had also run aground. The Flier was pulled off the reef one week later. The Macaw remained stuck until huge waves dislodged and sank her the night of Feb 12-13, 1944, with a loss of five of the crew, including the captain, Lt. Cmdr. Paul W. Burton, and three enlisted men from the submarine base at Midway who drowned in an ill-considered rescue attempt when their rearming boats capsized amid the heavy surf.” 


As a WW II buff whose grandfather badgered the U.S. Navy to bring him back on active duty in the Pacific in 1942, I’m looking forward to Ted’s book!


—Bill Price, 12 Lummi Key, Bellevue, WA 98006; bill@drivasolutions.com