Class Note 1955
Issue
Monday, April 12, I had breakfast at Lou’s with our 55th reunion catering specialist Larry Pilchman, followed by an hour measuring spaces at the Hopkins Center studios with Mary-Therese Braun for our art exhibits, followed by a conference with Barbara Krieger at the Rauner-Webster archives. Dick Blodgett and Jere Daniell joined me to review the array of 1950s memorabilia for the Rauner exhibit. Gale Parker, Karen Gorton, Joe Kagle and Peter Teal will be among the artists presenting at Hopkins Center. John French (reunion chairman), Betty Brady, Ralph Sautter and Joe Mathewson deserve thanks for arranging our great 55th reunion.
Gordie Russell has been chosen as Avenidas Lifetime of Achievement 2010 honoree from among a field of people who have made a difference in their community. Avenidas works to promote positive aging. Gordie exemplifies the successful traits of remaining active, involved and committed to the causes he cares about. He was a general partner at the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and has held senior management positions in the biomedical and healthcare industries. A founder of the Sun Valley Writers Conference, Gordie serves as a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Woods Hole Research Center and Ravenswood Family Health Center.
At our 50th reunion Gordie received an honorary doctorate of humane letters. He is also a member of the Native-American visiting committee and the President’s Leadership Council and was former chairman of the Dartmouth medical board of overseers. Equally important, Gordie shared goaltending with Dave Conlan in an era without benefit of the sophisticated face masks of today. He continues his hockey connection as an owner of the San Jose Sharks.
Peter and Annie Teal spend winters in Tucson, Arizona, and return to their home in Billings, Montana, for the summers. A Harvard Med School graduate, he commutes from Arizona one week each month to continue his orthopedics practice, but no longer does surgery. Among his patients are veterans, many of them missing limbs and suffering from post-traumatic stress. Annie has a degree in gerontology and worked in a retirement home.
Allen and Janet Root live in Tampa, Florida, where both continue to work full time. His specialty is pediatric endocrinology and pediatric medicine. He is chairman of the Florida Neonatal Screening Committee, a public health program started in 1980 to deal with congenital hypothyroid condition, an excellent use of tax dollars enabling some talented children to survive and prosper. Allen not only sees patients but is teaching and writing as well. Janet has been chairman of the arts and humanities department of Shorecrest Prep School and serves on the board of the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Their three children, all M.D.s, endowed the Dr. Allen W. Root Contemporary Art Lectureship at the Hood.
Homecoming will be October 29 and 30 with bonfire, Harvard game, beautiful campus and friends.
—Bob Fanger, 1010 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02138; (617) 354-2735; rfanger1@msn.com
July - Aug 2010
Monday, April 12, I had breakfast at Lou’s with our 55th reunion catering specialist Larry Pilchman, followed by an hour measuring spaces at the Hopkins Center studios with Mary-Therese Braun for our art exhibits, followed by a conference with Barbara Krieger at the Rauner-Webster archives. Dick Blodgett and Jere Daniell joined me to review the array of 1950s memorabilia for the Rauner exhibit. Gale Parker, Karen Gorton, Joe Kagle and Peter Teal will be among the artists presenting at Hopkins Center. John French (reunion chairman), Betty Brady, Ralph Sautter and Joe Mathewson deserve thanks for arranging our great 55th reunion.
Gordie Russell has been chosen as Avenidas Lifetime of Achievement 2010 honoree from among a field of people who have made a difference in their community. Avenidas works to promote positive aging. Gordie exemplifies the successful traits of remaining active, involved and committed to the causes he cares about. He was a general partner at the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and has held senior management positions in the biomedical and healthcare industries. A founder of the Sun Valley Writers Conference, Gordie serves as a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Woods Hole Research Center and Ravenswood Family Health Center.
At our 50th reunion Gordie received an honorary doctorate of humane letters. He is also a member of the Native-American visiting committee and the President’s Leadership Council and was former chairman of the Dartmouth medical board of overseers. Equally important, Gordie shared goaltending with Dave Conlan in an era without benefit of the sophisticated face masks of today. He continues his hockey connection as an owner of the San Jose Sharks.
Peter and Annie Teal spend winters in Tucson, Arizona, and return to their home in Billings, Montana, for the summers. A Harvard Med School graduate, he commutes from Arizona one week each month to continue his orthopedics practice, but no longer does surgery. Among his patients are veterans, many of them missing limbs and suffering from post-traumatic stress. Annie has a degree in gerontology and worked in a retirement home.
Allen and Janet Root live in Tampa, Florida, where both continue to work full time. His specialty is pediatric endocrinology and pediatric medicine. He is chairman of the Florida Neonatal Screening Committee, a public health program started in 1980 to deal with congenital hypothyroid condition, an excellent use of tax dollars enabling some talented children to survive and prosper. Allen not only sees patients but is teaching and writing as well. Janet has been chairman of the arts and humanities department of Shorecrest Prep School and serves on the board of the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Their three children, all M.D.s, endowed the Dr. Allen W. Root Contemporary Art Lectureship at the Hood.
Homecoming will be October 29 and 30 with bonfire, Harvard game, beautiful campus and friends.
—Bob Fanger, 1010 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02138; (617) 354-2735; rfanger1@msn.com