Class Note 1977
Issue
Sept - Oct 2016
I, Nancy Vespoli, am standing in for class secretary John Bird this time around. Be sure to save the date for our 40th reunion with the classes of ’76 and ’78, less than one year away: June 15-18, 2017. Penny Kurr Rashin hosted ’77s for an afternoon of golf at her Country Club of New Canaan in Connecticut on June 7. Two foursomes, including Penny, Ann Duffy, Dan Mahony,Kim and Mac Taylor, Tuck and Leslie Bradford and yours truly, participated. We dusted off our brassies, baffies and mashie niblicks for an exciting round on the course with a stop at the 19th afterward. Mark Pruner had more important business to tend to, so while we played he made enough on real estate deals in Greenwich, Connecticut, to buy the drinks. Thank you, Penny and Mark! More games to follow, and if you are inclined to host a similar event, let our mini-reunion chair Leslie Bradford (leslie.e.bradford@gmail.com) know! We can get you subsidies!
I recently visited Bets Kent in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In January she retired from a 28-year career at Cambridge Associates and also married John Everett, MIT ’76. She has just completed a vacation home on Pleasant Lake in New London, New Hampshire. Talk about revving up after 60! Sounds like a great start.
Down in Fort Worth, Texas, George Shackelford—deputy director of the Kimbell Art Museum—reports that he is putting the finishing touches on this fall’s upcoming exhibition. Monet: The Early Years will feature 65 paintings, including the Impressionist artist’s first exhibited work (1858) and most of the best-known masterpieces of the 1860s and early 1870s. Loans are coming from museums in Europe and North America (the usual suspects, including the Musée d’Orsay, the Met, the National Gallery, among many others), as well as from private collections. You can see the exhibition October 16 through January 29, 2017, at the Kimbell and February 25 to May 29, 2017, at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Legion of Honor. Sounds like two great opportunities for mini-reunions!
Max Anderson is also in the art news. The New York Times reports that Max “will become the president of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta, which preserves and promotes works by self-taught African American artists, primarily in the South.” Congratulations, Max!
Leslie Bradford sent this report. “Many of you know Dave Wood, and read his moving column in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine in the November-December 2015 issue in which he wrote about mental illness, the need to confront and de-stigmatize it and, most importantly, of his own personal struggles of and with his son and family. Unfortunately, a number of classmates gathered on June 3 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, for a memorial service for David Wood IV, who passed away in May and was beautifully remembered at the service. Dave and Bobbie were steadfast in their love and support for “Young David” and Dave’s call to action to bring mental health issues into the open was inspiring. The church was packed, reflecting the love and warmth and breadth of the community.”
—Nancy Vespoli, 604 West Lake Ave., Guilford, CT 06437; (203) 887-9872; nancy.vespoli@snet.net
I recently visited Bets Kent in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In January she retired from a 28-year career at Cambridge Associates and also married John Everett, MIT ’76. She has just completed a vacation home on Pleasant Lake in New London, New Hampshire. Talk about revving up after 60! Sounds like a great start.
Down in Fort Worth, Texas, George Shackelford—deputy director of the Kimbell Art Museum—reports that he is putting the finishing touches on this fall’s upcoming exhibition. Monet: The Early Years will feature 65 paintings, including the Impressionist artist’s first exhibited work (1858) and most of the best-known masterpieces of the 1860s and early 1870s. Loans are coming from museums in Europe and North America (the usual suspects, including the Musée d’Orsay, the Met, the National Gallery, among many others), as well as from private collections. You can see the exhibition October 16 through January 29, 2017, at the Kimbell and February 25 to May 29, 2017, at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Legion of Honor. Sounds like two great opportunities for mini-reunions!
Max Anderson is also in the art news. The New York Times reports that Max “will become the president of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta, which preserves and promotes works by self-taught African American artists, primarily in the South.” Congratulations, Max!
Leslie Bradford sent this report. “Many of you know Dave Wood, and read his moving column in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine in the November-December 2015 issue in which he wrote about mental illness, the need to confront and de-stigmatize it and, most importantly, of his own personal struggles of and with his son and family. Unfortunately, a number of classmates gathered on June 3 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, for a memorial service for David Wood IV, who passed away in May and was beautifully remembered at the service. Dave and Bobbie were steadfast in their love and support for “Young David” and Dave’s call to action to bring mental health issues into the open was inspiring. The church was packed, reflecting the love and warmth and breadth of the community.”
—Nancy Vespoli, 604 West Lake Ave., Guilford, CT 06437; (203) 887-9872; nancy.vespoli@snet.net