Celebrating the Arts - Dwight-Englewood School

CLASSNOTES
Dwight-Englewood School
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D 51
Class Rep:
Elinor Lockwood Yeo
133 Day Street
Newton, MA 02466
Email: revelinor@alumnae.smith.edu
Kathleen MacGregor Randolph
continues to enjoy Arizona, travel to
Maine to visit her son and his family,
Alaska for cool weather, and excursions
to California for a change of scenery.
She is sorry to miss the 60th reunion.
She sends her best regards to all!
E 51
Class Rep:
James Webster
4277 Bitterroot Road
Reno, NV 89509-0640
Email: jwebster@gabelli.com
To all my classmates from the ESB Class
of 1951: I have been thinking of a way to
honor our School on the occasion of our
60th Reunion and what I’ve come up
with is a Challenge for all of us! For each
and every one of our Classmates who
gives $60 in honor of our 60th Reunion,
I will match that $60! It would be great
to have 100 % of our Class making a gift
in honor of our time at ESB! What do you
say, gentlemen? You can call Pat Boig in
the Development Office at 201-569-
9500, ext. 3411, or go online and make
your gift at www.d-e.org/supporting.
Can’t wait to hear how many of you
make a gift! Best regards, Jim Webster.
D 52
Class Rep needed:
Joan Lyman Larson sent in this note:
“Bob and I are still very active in golf and
tennis. I sold paintings this past summer
at the Historical Society Show in Quogue.
All our children and grandchildren are
doing well. I feel very lucky. I just visited
my Aunt Dorothy Lyman Hewitt D’ 29
and Emily Lyman Mussells D ’33, who
are 98 and 94, respectively! Amazing!
We had fun talking about how great
Dwight School was and still is.”
Audrey Stein Merves reports: “Life in
Philly is hectic and fun for us. We
became grandparents for the 8th time
on May 4, 2010. Our youngest daughter,
Jennifer Robbins, and husband Brian
have a son, Nicholas Ethan. He lives a few
blocks from us, so we see him every few
days. What fun. We moved into the city two
years ago from the suburbs. I love it—Stan
not so much. Driving to his office on the
expressway during rush hour is no fun. I
am busy in civic affairs. I sit on a board at
the University of Pennsylvania, on a board
at Temple University, and just took on
another directorship as a board member
of the Walnut Street Theater, the oldest
theater in America. I am enjoying all of it,
and it does keep me busy. Three of our
grandchildren graduate from college this
spring, one each from Emory, Oglethorpe,
and Lawrence universities. Three more are
sophomores at Harvard, Maryland, and the
U.S. Air Force Academy, and one is still in
high school. If anyone from our class has
relocated in or near Philly, please contact
me; it would be fun to spend a lunch
together and talk of Dwight days.”
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Class Rep needed:
Vincent Felitti sent in the following news:
“I am a semi-retired internist living with
my wife in La Jolla, CA, for the past 43
years. I have three adult children and get
to travel a fair amount now; invited
because of medical research I’ve been
involved in. Things have worked out well,
overall. I haven’t been in Englewood for a
half century, but it would be nice to see
what happened to the school. On
reflection, it was a remarkably fine place
and I’m grateful for the demands the
Masters put on us, even though that
gratitude might have been lacking then.”
The passing of Tommy Johnson is noted
on page 58 (In Memoriam). Jon Foote
ESB ’53 composed a poetic tribute called
“Tommy, you were my Best Friend.”
The following is an excerpt:
At Eaglebrook, we began to part,
you being a year older.
Your speed was a legend and other
than that, my memories fade a little.
Despite the fade, they revive some on the
soccer field—when Gov. Dummer and PA
games brought us together as opponents.
I still couldn’t catch you, you were much
too fast—
But I evened the field by scoring one that
won the game at last.
Our lives have gone down different trails
And haven’t crossed too often…
BUT in the end, my thoughts are clear.
First Best Friends never part, as the
Mem’ries live forever!
D 53
Class Rep:
Cynthia Walz Doggett
Two Thornton Lane
Concord, MA 01742
Email: cwdogg@aol.com
Anne “Vyt” Vytlacil lives in Washington,
DC, and has her own architectural
firm with a specialty in residential,
commercial, and institutional renovation
projects, combining contemporary design
with historic preservation. She is the
daughter of modernist painter Vaclav
Vytlacil, and after his death a few years
back she donated her father’s house,
studio, and land to the Art Students
League of New York, which then
established The Vytlacil School of
Painting and Sculpture. Well done, Vyt!
Carvel Glidden is a member of the
Belfast (Maine) Life Drawing Group,
which held an exhibit of figurative work
at Belfast’s Clifford Gallery last June.
The show, titled “The Figure Revealed,”
contained a range of work in sculpture,
bas relief, charcoal, and pencil drawings,
paintings, and portraits, shaped wire
figures, and even an artist’s sketchbook.
Carvel was one of the exhibitors. The
Belfast Life Drawing Group provides a
way for serious artists to study the figure,
avoiding the cost of instruction by
sharing modeling fees. The purpose of
the exhibit was to acknowledge the
commitment of this group to the classic
art practice of drawing from a live model.
Mimi Dickey Smith has been weaving
on a loom for over 20 years. She has
participated in national weaving
workshops and seminars. An
accomplished artist, she experiments with
different weave structures, and pushes
the traditional techniques to new levels
by exploring new designs, colors, and
textures. A patient teacher, she loves to
see her students expand their skills and
succeed in what she loves to do. She is a
long-time member of the Weaver’s Guild
of Rochester, NY, where she teaches. In
October 2011, she will teach at the
Eastern Great Lakes Fiber Conference in
Chatauqua, NY.
Camilla Vilas Durfee is also a teacher.
For the past several years she has been
teaching English (part time) to
Georgetown University’s international
students, who range in age from 17 to
35, and come from 30 countries. Over