Commencement 2o11 - Friends' Central School

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ALUMNI/AE NEWS
Notes from Friends
profit health care organization since
1994, serving on committees as an officer
and chairman of a fundraising campaign.
The mission of Avow is to provide
quality end of life care to patients
whereby they are pain free, spiritually
nourished, and die with a sense of dignity
and purpose to their lives. The health
care provider also offers grief counseling
and bereavement services to the families
of the patients.
1959
Dick and Bonnie Forster Richards
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary
on August 5. They met at FCS in second
grade, started dating in ninth grade and
have made a wonderful life together.
Their three sons, Whit, David, and Drew,
planned a surprise party for them at a
nearby resort. All the guests, including
their seven grandchildren, kept the secret,
and Bonnie and Dick were overwhelmed
by the love-filled occasion.
1960
Rich Ulmer is president and CEO of
InVitro International in Irvine, Calif.
His company, which develops and
commercializes non-animal test kits and
laboratory services, participated in the
Eighth Annual World Congress of Non-
Animal Testing Methods in Montreal
last August. Ulmer also writes that his
first granddaughter is just about to start
her sophomore year at UC Santa Cruz.
“Needless to say,” he writes, “we don’t
feel old enough to have her that far along
in school yet. Fondest greetings to all the
Class of ’60, and let’s start thinking about
a follow up to our great 50th Reunion …
how about a 55th?”
1961
Joan Fleischhauer Smith was so sorry
to miss her 50th Reunion. She retired
in June after 18 years as Upper School
Head at Roland Park Country School
and 46 years as an educator. “I’m loving
retirement!” she writes. “I will continue
to do some work for the school, starting
with a trip to Korea in September.”
1964
Martin Crabtree writes, “I have felt
indebted to the values and education I
received at FCS. As a result, my parents
and I became attenders of Radnor Friends
Meeting. In 1975 I returned to Switzerland
and became a high school teacher of
English, and I also taught German to
exchange students. My wife and I are
friends of the Friends, and although we
are members of the Swiss Protestant
Church, we attend Meeting for Worship
every three weeks in our area. In a delicate
and inoffensive way I have endeavored to
impart the importance of as much peace as
is humanly possible into the minds of my
students, as well as the merits of a simple
way of life. I wish all of my contemporaries
everything they need for the future, and I
wish FCS, its students, and faculty and staff,
all the blessings they need!”
1965
Larry Levin’s first book, Oogy: The Dog
Only A Family Could Love, spent 10 weeks
on the New York Times Nonfiction Best
Seller list after publication in October
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2010. It has been
published in eight
countries, made it
onto several “Best
Of” lists for 2011.
“Oogy and I do a
lot of fundraisers
for local rescues
and shelters and
visit schools whenever we can,” he writes.
Levin’s sons, Noah and Dan, are juniors
in college, and his wife, Jennifer, is busy
with her law practice as well as being a
certified Zumba instructor. Levin is an
attorney with International Recoveries,
LLC, in Ardmore.
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