NotesAlumni Finding other Explore Punahou Alumni ‘Ohana, Punahou Alumni our new, private, online directory of Punahou alumni. Search for classmates, is a click away! professional contacts and friends here. Log in at ohana.punahou.edu to search the directory and update your contact information. Questions? Email [email protected] Alumni Notes Policy EDITOR’S NOTE » Send alumni updates and photographs directly to Class Correspondents. If public health conditions permit, we will hold the Alumni » Digital photographs should be high- resolution jpg images (300 dpi). Lu‘au on Saturday, June 12, 2021. The most updated » Each class column is limited to 650 words so information about your Reunion events can be found at that we can accommodate eight decades of classes in the Bulletin! punahou.edu/reunion. » Bulletin staff reserve the right to edit, format and select all materials for publication. Class of 1937 answer his own phone! He is considerably deafer J: “Yes, Jimmy Case from Kaua‘i, in your than I am, so our beginning was not so easy. Class of 1937.” James Case 3757 Round Top Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822 D: “Jim? Jim who? I don’t know any Jim.” Deryk lives in Normandy Park, a small town on [email protected] | 808.949.8272 J: “Jim Case from Honolulu. In your Class at the southwest fringe of Seattle. He lives alone Punahou.” (They don’t pronounce Honolulu in his own attractive cozy home. He has one I thought it was time to check in on a surviving right up there.) Finally, “Jimmy Case.” surviving son, who is in New York. A couple of classmate to see if we were still surviving, so I D: “Oh, Jimmy Case from Kaua‘i. Oh!” his step-grandchildren come up from Seattle, gave him a call. Surprised to have Deryk Row 72 Punahou Bulletin Alumni Notes Hau‘oli la hanau! Dick Cox ’38 celebrated his 100th birthday by viewing his own birthday parade from his driveway in Manoa. Well-wishers drove and walked by with signs and songs. Dick said, “It was not your usual birthday celebration, but still a joyous event!” Front row, from left: John Chock ’01, Dick Cox ’38, Pia Chock ’97 seated with her daughters, Catie and Frankie. Back row: Frank Stanton (Fenny’s husband), Lydia Cox ’66 Chock, Fenny Cox ’67 and John Chock ’66. Not pictured, but were there celebrating were Dick’s children, Midi Cox ’62, Janet Cox ’64 Brown and David Cox ’71. maybe once a week to clean up and check up California, during her married years and cheerfulness.” A commuter from Wahiawa, she on him. Otherwise he takes care of himself. raised two daughters, Jennifer Clark Hardesty still found time for her many “extracurricular He says he is “very hard of hearing, but and Lisa Clark Cloven. She adored her activities … and to work on her China dog otherwise, okay.” The surprise is that Deryk is grandchildren and frequently took them on collection.” We know from her 50th Class the oldest student in our Class and I am the trips. She was very active in her community Reunion memories that she attended youngest. Deryk will be 102 in January 2021, and gave generously of her time and skills. Georgetown University (and married and I am “only” 100. She will be greatly missed. classmate, James Baggett), then also Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Florence then served in Class of 1941 Class of 1945 Baptist churches in Kentucky, on Maui, Kaua‘i Gregg Butler ’68 Betty Spangler Nolen and O‘ahu, directing church programs for 32 (son of Laurabelle Maze ’41 Butler) 9 Camino Vista Court, Belmont, CA 94002-2124 years. Her daughter, Johanna, reports that her [email protected] | 805.501.2890 [email protected] | 650.591.2415 mother loved dogs, cooking and planting roses and orchids. Florence’s husband, the Class of 1942 Class of 1946 late Rev. James Baggett, passed away in 2001. Florence is survived by three children, Jon, Nancy Dew ’74 Metcalf Willson Moore David and Johanna; four grandsons; and her (daughter of Barbara Fritschi ’42 Dew) [email protected] | 808.356.3649 brother, Herbert Takahashi (the last sibling of her [email protected] | 808.223.9246 From our thinning Class members, we sadly original family of seven, which included Betty lost two more in 2020. Here are some personal Takahashi ’48 Masaki, Gladys Baker-Grimes, Class of 1943 glimpses into their lives. Harry ’52, George ’56 and Abraham ’57). Virginia “Ginnie” Markham ’47 Davenport Florence Takahashi Baggett left us on April 23, Alice Blaney Holmes passed away on April 22, shared that her sister, Elizabeth Markham 2020. Our Oahuan remembers Florence as 2020, in Cody, Wyoming. Born in Chelsea, Clark, passed away recently, after several “an industrious student and excellent sports- Massachusetts, into a military family, she years with bone cancer. She lived in Orinda, woman” with a “bubbling personality and grew up in many locations. Alice attended Winter 2021 73 Alumni Notes Punahou from 1938 to 1941 and had she cleaning house and walking. Flora is a lot Class of 1949 stayed, she would have graduated in our Class more productive than most of us. of 1946. She received a bachelor’s degree in Beverly Blom Dudley Fullard-Leo took a break from the chemistry from Wellesley College in 1950. She [email protected] | 360.647.5223 Islands to spend a few months at his home in and her husband, John F. Holmes, worked at The weekend of Aug. 30, 2020, Vancouver, Washington. He had business Ellen Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) Townsley’s Forum residence matters to tend to, as well as celebrating his Schattenberg on a Navy/ WHOI Arctic venture in 1952, that went on evacuation alert. The Santa Cruz 92nd birthday. landed on the polar ice cap to study the wildfire was 11 miles away. Residents were feasibility of ocean study through the ice. In the Joan Baldwin Spalding keeps occupied with advised to pack papers, medicines, clothing early years, their family moved around the U.S. daily walks and jogging. She is also finding and any animals. Ellen and her cat, Alice, were following John’s job. They even experienced great satisfaction in homeschooling her ready to go for four days. When the alert was Hurricane Katrina while in Louisiana. Alice grandson, Ben. called off, Ellen went back to her schedule of raised three children, and remained active in swimming, reading and talking on the phone Leonard Stanley is happy to report that his the League of Women Voters, as well as 40 with family. In the past, while living in San book, “Adrian: A Lifetime of Movie Glamour, years with the Girl Scouts as troop leader, Diego, the Townsleys had experienced a near Art and High Fashion,” was published by camp counselor and director. She was also a wildfire. The police came in the middle of the Rizzoli Publications in November 2019. member of The Garden Club in several states. night to get them to leave their home. This Googling the book, Leonard failed to mention Once John passed in 2009, she moved to time there was no departure, but hotel rooms that his book has received many glowing Wyoming to live with her daughter. Alice is were available if needed. survived by her daughter, Elizabeth; her sons, reviews. A synopsis of the book read, “This Jim and Ted; three grandchildren and three book is a bright and vivacious look at the Izzy Lamb Ryan checked in from Honolulu in step-grandchildren. fashion, art and homes of one of the most September, while the city was in its second celebrated fashion designers of the 20th lockdown. At that time, rules were for one On a lighter note, by now you have received century – Adrian.” Adrian designed costumes person on the beach by themselves, no family the registration to update your contact for iconic movie stars, such as Greta Garbo, members, one hiker at a time, no restaurants information for Punahou, and your attendance Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland open, take-out only. Izzy has been reading a at our 75th Class Reunion. Please fill out and and Katharine Hepburn. The younger genera- lot. She also watches some TV shows and return pronto. Optimistically, the pandemic tion wouldn’t know who they were, but waits with all of us for relief from boredom! will be under control and travel, plus the usual “seniors” would know them all very well. Brewer reported that her fun Reunion activities, can resume much as Congratulations, Leonard! You hit the jackpot! Frances Holbrook we enjoyed in years past. The 2021 Punahou granddaughter, Rianne Ellingwood, just Alumni Lua‘u is planned for Saturday, June Great news from Muriel Otani Kashiwa! Her graduated from Western Washington 12, 2021, so note that on your calendars. We late husband, Genro Kashiwa, once a partner University and is now studying to become a will plan a couple of ’46er functions for earlier at Goodsill, Anderson, Quinn and Stifel, had pilot. Frances’ twin granddaughters, who just that week that you will not want to miss. A hui collected and edited 72 stories penned by graduated from high school, will be going to hou kakou! soldiers, who were Americans of Japanese the University of Washington, but are now ancestry (AJA) in World War II. These 72 studying at home due to COVID-19. Thick stories are contained in six volumes of books. smoke from nearby wildfires has made Class of 1947 He and Muriel wrote two additional books; dangerous breathing conditions for Spokane. Mandy Blake Bowers “Collection of Memoirs,” which dealt with his Frances and her daughter, Kit, celebrated Kit’s [email protected] | 808.988.5362 experiences as a Platoon leader in the 442nd birthday at Nordstrom.