Class Note 1980
Issue
Sept - Oct 2016
From time to time your humble class scribes remind our faithful readers that we write for a magazine. The magazine is published on paper and delivered by mail. In other words, it is not Snapchat, thankfully. As I write this, “Are you ready for the summer?” is stuck in my head, but by the time you read this, you will be humming about soft September sunsets where the hours pass like dreams. Ironically, perusing photos posted on Facebook in real-time provides more news than the word-limit allows; please share them on the class page.
With school out for summer, Kathryn Flitner Wallop has announced that she is joining the faculty at the newly constructed Pathways Innovation Center in Casper, Wyoming. She will continue to teach English and language arts in this novel public school program for 11th- and 12th-graders that features a nontraditional setting, including homemade breakfast and daily aerobic exercise. In Katie’s words, “I’m fired up about the projects we will create to facilitate learning in real-life situations with work and career interests in mind. As a group, we are limited only by our imagination and desire to succeed. Seldom do learners have opportunities as game-changing as the one we have just been gifted.”
To kick off summer on a high note, Dave Chilcote celebrated the Cavs’ NBA title with a Jackson Browne concert in Akron, Ohio. Bruce Reeves took in a show at the Trident in Sausalito, California, featuring the saxophone playing of Chris Sullivan, son of Kevin Sullivan ’79. Meanwhile, Dave Bumsted enjoyed the peace and relative quiet of listening to the loons on Lake Placid, New York.
As part of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase (Maryland) High School 40th reunion activities, Joe Mannes toured Westland, the surviving school in the merger between his Western Junior High and my Leland. Ron Chen, Scott Slater, Meg Coughlin LePage, Peter Boone, Cathel MacLeod and Cheryl Waterhouse all went back to Phillips Exeter Academy for their 40th. In a similar but different setting, Wade Herring impressed the Macon (Georgia) Central High School Class of 1976 with dance moves not seen since the days of disco Beta. No doubt looking forward to a speedy return to the dance floor, Eric Pfeiffer took his new hip for a two-mile loop around Kendall Pond in Gardner, Massachusetts, less than three weeks after his replacement surgery.
Jim Puiia attended a family reunion in Scarborough, Maine, with all seven of his siblings and his youthful-looking mother. Debo Hart Goth, husband Bill and their two daughters toured Spain and Italy. Brian Boyer, wife Gretchen and their three children toured a healthy portion of Wisconsin and Illinois by running a total of 70 miles in the Chicago Ragnar relay race that starts in Madison, Wisconsin. Later this summer I look forward to seeing Debo in the Breckenridge, Colorado, mountains and the Bri in the Lake Temagami, Ontario, wilderness.
Enough about summer: Whom will you see in Hanover on October 29 when the Big Green take on Harvard for Homecoming?
—Rob Daisley, 3201 W. Knights Ave., Tampa, FL 33611; (813) 835-7722; robdaisley@me.com; Frank Fesnak, 111 Arbor Place, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@yahoo.com; Wade Herring, 1 Verdell Drive, Savannah, GA 31406; (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com
With school out for summer, Kathryn Flitner Wallop has announced that she is joining the faculty at the newly constructed Pathways Innovation Center in Casper, Wyoming. She will continue to teach English and language arts in this novel public school program for 11th- and 12th-graders that features a nontraditional setting, including homemade breakfast and daily aerobic exercise. In Katie’s words, “I’m fired up about the projects we will create to facilitate learning in real-life situations with work and career interests in mind. As a group, we are limited only by our imagination and desire to succeed. Seldom do learners have opportunities as game-changing as the one we have just been gifted.”
To kick off summer on a high note, Dave Chilcote celebrated the Cavs’ NBA title with a Jackson Browne concert in Akron, Ohio. Bruce Reeves took in a show at the Trident in Sausalito, California, featuring the saxophone playing of Chris Sullivan, son of Kevin Sullivan ’79. Meanwhile, Dave Bumsted enjoyed the peace and relative quiet of listening to the loons on Lake Placid, New York.
As part of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase (Maryland) High School 40th reunion activities, Joe Mannes toured Westland, the surviving school in the merger between his Western Junior High and my Leland. Ron Chen, Scott Slater, Meg Coughlin LePage, Peter Boone, Cathel MacLeod and Cheryl Waterhouse all went back to Phillips Exeter Academy for their 40th. In a similar but different setting, Wade Herring impressed the Macon (Georgia) Central High School Class of 1976 with dance moves not seen since the days of disco Beta. No doubt looking forward to a speedy return to the dance floor, Eric Pfeiffer took his new hip for a two-mile loop around Kendall Pond in Gardner, Massachusetts, less than three weeks after his replacement surgery.
Jim Puiia attended a family reunion in Scarborough, Maine, with all seven of his siblings and his youthful-looking mother. Debo Hart Goth, husband Bill and their two daughters toured Spain and Italy. Brian Boyer, wife Gretchen and their three children toured a healthy portion of Wisconsin and Illinois by running a total of 70 miles in the Chicago Ragnar relay race that starts in Madison, Wisconsin. Later this summer I look forward to seeing Debo in the Breckenridge, Colorado, mountains and the Bri in the Lake Temagami, Ontario, wilderness.
Enough about summer: Whom will you see in Hanover on October 29 when the Big Green take on Harvard for Homecoming?
—Rob Daisley, 3201 W. Knights Ave., Tampa, FL 33611; (813) 835-7722; robdaisley@me.com; Frank Fesnak, 111 Arbor Place, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@yahoo.com; Wade Herring, 1 Verdell Drive, Savannah, GA 31406; (912) 944-1639; wherring@huntermaclean.com