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CLASS Spring 2008 Send your news for the next issue to NOTES [email protected]. Dear Alumni: Our Spring 2008 issue of Trinity-Pawling Magazine this year will take the form of a final report on the success of our Centennial Campaign and its impacts on the boys, faculty, and families of Trinity-Pawling School. Look for it in your mail in June. We didn't want to omit our seasonal edition of Class Notes, however, so we prepared this edition for online publication. Keep in touch with your T-P friends year-round. Go to www.trinitypawling.org and click on 'Alumni.' Enjoy! Trinity-Pawling School Office of Alumni Relations C LASS N OTES ’33 ’44 ’51 Class Agent Class Agent Class Agent Paul Brinckerhoff Bill Lutkins Pete Foster Pete Foster writes: “I noted Tom McCoy’s ’03 comments in the February T-P in Touch and would like to offer a ‘ditto.’ As class ’38 ’48 agent, I have pleaded with my classmates for years in an effort to raise our percent Al Fisk writes: “I’m 86, my wife is 80, and Class Correspondent & Class Agent contribution. There were 70 classes we live on Sonoma Mountain. We have Joe Callo represented in the February issue. Only five children, two doctors, one teacher, one 330 East 38th Street, Apt 25A eight (11%) were at 32% or better. Think scientist, and one banker whom we see New York, NY 10016 of all that potential to help T-P grow! As frequently. I am on the board of Sonoma (212) 972-8651 for me, I continue to plug away at the real Classical Music Society, which I started four [email protected] estate business. Family is all well, and Jayne years ago. I go to a book club and work still puts up with me! My best, as always.” in my garden that has 57 roses. I like to Bruce Moody is happily preparing for cook and can still beat my kids at cribbage the casting and production of his theater sometimes. My wife is good at crossword work, Skittish, in San Rafael, CA, in June. puzzles.” ’49 Skittish is actually a collection of 12 short comedies, each one for two actors, two Class Agents chairs, a table, and a door. They are written Ralph Bates for all age groups and genders, and according Frank Bowman to the talent that shows up for the auditions, ’39 six will be performed. Bruce is marketing Skittish to little theaters and community Class Correspondent theaters around the Bay Area and around Robert Potter ’50 the country, for the plays are perfect for 21 Kenwood Circle such theaters and such audiences. Bruce was Queensbury, NY 12804 a writer and editor on the National Lampoon (518) 832-7306 Class Correspondent & Class Agent Bob White during its heyday. His work has appeared 73 Mahoney Avenue in The New Yorker, Look, and The National Class Agent Review. One of his first theater performances Ed Essertier Stoughton, MA 02072 (781) 344-9162 was in The Necklace of the Madonna with Bob Rafelson ’50 and Rory Harrity at Ed Essertier is running for re-election Woody Cornell is keeping busy by Trinity-Pawling in 1950. Both Rory and as class secretary for his class (1943) at volunteering during the winter months for Bob went on to big time Hollywood movie Princeton. The five-year term would begin Old Island Restoration Fund’s house tours makers. Accordingly, Bruce advises anyone at their 65th reunion in June and conclude and Key West Art & Historical Society’s at T-P interested in future success in the in 2013. Ed’s wife of 2 ½ years, Shirley, antique show. theater to find The Necklace of the Madonna continues to paint in watercolors and oils as Bill Mead reports that he sold his and perform this work at once. they continue to enjoy their home and new- Pete Ten Broeck Brooklyn Heights house in 2006. “We now is still doing consulting found friends in Culpeper, VA. reside in Sussex County, NJ. Our stuff is work, volunteer work, and keeping busy. still in Tri-State Area self-storage units—the tyranny of things!” ’42 Bill Flagg and his wife Gloria have moved into a new, beautiful retirement home. He www.trinitypawling.org tells us that their two great-grandchildren call it a grand hotel. 2 Trinity-Pawling Magazine Spring/Summer 2008 C LASS N OTES and grandchildren on a sailing trip in the Grenadines, since it is hard to visit them each year in Singapore, Minneapolis, and San Francisco. This means that they won’t be at the T-P class reunion since they are saving their overseas travel time for the Grenadines in July and August. Gil Lamb reports that he and Linda will celebrate her 70th birthday with their first- ever cruise on Holland-America’s 14-day Baltic cruise beginning June 3. “It’s going to be great,” he forecasts. They are still involved with the Historical Society—a passion of Linda’s, in their Bellville, TX, home. As for Gil, he enjoys computers, newsletters, planting more fruit trees, and waiting for the Texas Blue Bonnets to hatch. Finally, he states proudly, “I still need no assistance (at Bill Rewalt ’53 was feted as a founding member of Rotary Club of Grand Cayman Central. age 73) to get out of bed.” Jeff Nugent—you remember, the studious one—says that he is “Pleased to be in my 44th year of teaching economics at ’52 Class Agent USC, where, in contrast to a lot of places, Ike Van Wagner the students get better every year. But Class Correspondent teaching is also getting more difficult every John McDermott Tuck Noble has had a busy 2008, so far. He year. 618 Shady Lane is president of the local barbershop chorus “Last week I had a short visit from John Placentia, CA 92670 and was show chairman for their big show Thorne from the Development Office of (714) 993-1373 in March. He also sings in a barbershop T-P, showing impressive engineering [email protected] quartet, plus a quartet at church. He is drawings of the new dining hall that will director of public relations for his Rotary soon be under construction and available Class Agent Club and writes articles for the Arizona to our next reunion. I was most pleased to Henry Fisher Republic, in addition to teaching two writing hear that, thanks to a generous donation courses at the local community college. He from some alumnus/parent, T-P will start Henry Fisher tells us: “Happy to be retired, is putting the finishing touches on his fourth teaching Chinese. In my opinion that is a spend time as a volunteer driver to assist novel, Ever the Twins Shall Meet—a sequel to brilliant move. Greetings to all!” ‘shut ins.’ Our daughter, who is a doctor, his novel, Changing of the Gods, which was Bill Rewalt was featured in an article along with her husband runs a mission published two years ago. In September, he in the Grand Cayman Net News, in which hospital in Koza, Cameroon. Our son is an and his wife, DenisAnn, will travel to Israel it was reported that the local Rotary attorney in San Francisco, and his wife is a and Jordan for a two-week excursion in the Club of Grand Cayman Central held its pediatrician with the U. of California San Holy Lands. changeover night in late October 2007. Francisco Hospital.” Tuck also wrote to us about the following Bill was honored as one of the founding classmates: members of this chapter, which continues Phil Haughey is still working and its signature community service projects enjoying it. He remains in touch with Tony of “bus shelters, cleaning up the beaches, Leeds, Tom Crowley, Terry Ray ’55, John home repair projects, Junior Achievement, ’53 Troy ’54, and Dick Clasby ’50. Phil says: improving and enhancing literacy, Take a “Dick’s grandson Will ’08 is a student at Kid Fishing, the science fair, and now the Class Correspondent T-P and a terrific athlete like his grandfather! burglary prevention program.” Tuck Noble Hope everyone is well at T-P.” 10501 East Arrowvale Drive Quincy Hunsicker and his wife, Sun Lakes, AZ 85248 Carolyn, continue to enjoy retirement in (480) 802-3130 Switzerland (Zürich, Klosters, and Lugano) [email protected] and their twice-a-year visits to San Francisco. This summer, they are taking their children 2008 Spring/Summer Trinity-Pawling Magazine 3 C LASS N OTES Alumni from ’55 to ’03 Enjoy Game on Renovated Tirrell Rink Almost 30 alumni, ranging from the Class of 1955-2003, returned stayed to view the varsity team compete against Kent School in the family members witnessed their husbands and dads playing hockey to campus in February for the first Alumni Hockey Game played on semi-annual night game. Patricia and John Tirrell ’50 were on hand for the first time! A good time was indeed had by all, and with a the newly refurbished Tirrell Hockey Rink. The game was followed to accept a jersey signed by all of the players, in honor of his father, couple of Advil after the game, all was better. by a reception at the home of Amy and Brian Foster ’79. Many Dave Tirrell, the late coach for whom the rink is named. Many board of ACLU Massachusetts. Over ’54 ’55 the years, he has been on the boards of Noville, Inc., an international flavor and Class Correspondent Class Agent fragrance firm; Kendal at Ithaca, a large Steve Wilkinson Alan Davoll retirement community; Big Brothers/Big Box 4551 Reservoir Road Sisters; Community Foundation of the Twin Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520 George Luce was on campus in February Tiers; Barclay Friends School; and other (845) 534-7601 to participate in the annual Alumni Hockey community boards and committees.