AndoverMagSpring2015

stay connected...Carly ([son] Peter’s oldest), who is a junior atMontana State University. We will be 14 forChristmas, as [son] Roy and his family will spendit at their home in Utah and enjoy their skiing.”I hate to pass on the following: I have been yoursecretary since 1977 and have really enjoyed it.However, old age has crept up on me. I am not inthe best of health. I wish you would get your headstogether and come up with a new secretary. Thetime is coming close when I cannot do this anymore.I have not missed an issue. I would like thatto continue. [Editor’s note: The Academy is gratefulfor Mary Lou Miller Hart’s long service. If anymember of the Abbot Class of 1947 would like totake over the role of class secretary, please contactLaura MacHugh at lmachugh@andover.eduor 978-749-4289.]PHILLIPSBob Lasley1958 Cherryvale CourtToms River NJ 08755ralasley@comcast.netAlways start on the high notes, which thistime around are the financials of PA. Thetotal endowment fund just broke through thebillion-dollar mark (no, that’s not a misprint) andfor fiscal 2014 reported a return of 16.8 percent.How many of us approached that? The fundincludes 1947’s Reading Room Endowment, nowat $162M, the Language Learning Center Fund,now at $1.144M, and the Reeves Hart ScholarshipFund, now at $419M. Of particular interest, Ireceived copies of letters from two recipients (onefrom New York, the other from South Carolina)of support from the Hart Fund. If you ask, I’d behappy to send you copies of same.The first classmate to report in wasDave Adams, now back in Florida after a granddaughter’swedding in the Adironacks. The groomwas a brightly polished brand-new USMC lieutenant,who brought along his own honor guardarmed with sabres, which created that wonderfulscene of exiting the church under an arch ofswords. This was followed by a dinner cruise onLake Champlain.I then contacted John Addison, now retiredin the San Francisco Bay Area after a remarkableand full-to-the-brim career teaching math (andlogic) to those of UC Berkeley, with interruptionsto teach at Michigan; in Warsaw, Poland; inJerusalem; and at Oxford. He lost his wife of 58years very recently but has four sons all in theBay Area (and four grandchildren) to keep himhopping. Although at Andover only for the senioryear, he reports having “very fond memories.”I then had a very interesting chat withFred Fortmiller, who reported he’s doing almostnothing but is very busy, and then wowed mewith the list: very active in the Harvard AlumniAssociation, conservation matters in Wellesley,Mass., and a child and family services groupworking to promote early intervention...andalso remodeling and enlarging his house. He hasbeen more than assisted in this last activity by hispatient wife. Fred also keeps busy staying in touchwith his Japanese associates, connections madethrough a three-year-plus Navy billet at a supplybase in Sasebo and a career of business consultinglargely in Japan.We cannot stop the tolling bell. Alan Calnanhas died in Brussels. Alan was a longtime residentof Brussels and was very active in the AmericanClub as president and a board member for manyyears. He also served the Fulbright Commissionas board chairman and member for many years.Also, we’ve received word that Bill Hickey ofHanover, N.H., died in April 2014.We extend condolences to their survivingfamilies.1948ABBOTGene Young30 Park Ave., Apt. 12CNew York NY 10016212-679-8931panchogene@gmail.comI’ve just finished watching The Girls of Abbot: AMemoir, a 40-minute documentary, and enjoyed itmightily. So will you. It was shown this past winterat various PA/Abbot gatherings, but if you’d like towatch it online, the link is http://bit.ly/1Af V8Xb.It’s probably safe to say that I am the onlymember of our class whose mother is still living.Well, she is, and my sister Shirley ’51, brotherin-lawOscar Tang ’56, and I threw her a 109thbirthday party at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan,where Mom danced with Oscar in her high heels.Sad news of several Class of ’48 deaths hasarrived. Mary Farrar Bonotto died in August2014. A resident of Princeton, N.J., for most of herlife, she was a writer, a teacher, and an enthusiasticskier. She leaves her husband, Sergio Bonotto,and two sons.Helen Taylor Dodd, who died in February2014, was a member and past president of theJunior League and an active volunteer in herchurch and various charitable organizations. Sheleaves two children and two grandchildren.Eleanor “Muffy” Wallis Herkness passedaway on Sept. 18, 2014. A generous patron ofhumanitarian and cultural projects, she helpedfound and for many years operated the HumaneSociety of Greenbrier County, W.Va., and alsohelped many people who were in need. She issurvived by her husband, Wayne Herkness.Please, please send me some cheerful newsin 2015!PHILLIPSRobert Segal118 Sutton Hill RoadNorth Andover MA 01845978-682-9317robsegna@verizon.netA letter arrived in October from Terr y Buchananto announce that he and wife Fran were on themove again. Along with a group from Californiamade up of senior medical professionals, theywere on an ocean cruise from Montreal to NewYork with stops in Quebec; Halifax; St. John;Bar Harbor, Maine (where he posted his letter);and Boston. In Terry’s eyes, the doctors werethere to keep them “safe if we start to ‘sputter.’ ”The Buchanans planned to dine with Terry’s PAroommate Phil Buckner in New York and totake in some theatre and the sights. He enclosedphotos of their attractive and athletic family andof some travel stops. He says, “We’re healthy, but abit ‘creaky’ with arthritis aches. Medicare and BlueCross still helping our ‘golden years.’ ”The Boston Group met for lunch in Octoberand continued to a memorial service forJim Stockwell at Carleton-Willard Villageauditorium. The picture of Jim with his welcomingsmile added resonance to the remarks of sonWilliam P. Stockwell, who said, “Jim was a gentleman in many ways and could, upon occasion, riseup like a squall moving north, dark and dangerous,out of Marblehead toward Cape Ann. He was aforce to be reckoned with, not by intimidation orphysical size, but by pure reason of resolve andjudgment alone. His themes were excellence, hardwork, accountability, trust, execution, forwardthinking, integrity, and completion. He lovedthe extremely complex and adopted the simplepleasures of life and nature. His knowledge wasvast on many subjects and his advice and opinion,from the trivial to groundbreaking technologies,were sought by many.” In his last days he blockedout his memorial service and chose the hymnsthat should be sung. He especially wanted “AngelsWe Have Heard on High.” When challengedbecause the song was a Christmas song, Jim wavedoff the objection, saying that it was his favorite.And we sang “Gloria in excelsis Deo”!I ran into Betty and Ed O’Connor, who weredown from New Hampshire to lunch with theirdaughter. Signing off from my interruption oftheir meal, I suggested that Ed choose a date whenwe might have lunch and continued through therestaurant to join Andy Lorant for a bite and talkon aging. Ed e-mailed a few days later to set a datefor the following week and say that his brother,as well as a fellow Ed knew in his early days of thebrokerage business, would join us. It was a funtime. Ed is as sharp and witty as ever.A package arrived from Miami. It wasa computer usage guidebook for whichTed Hudson had drawn cartoon illustrations tomake any neophyte using the book feel at ease.70 Andover | Spring 2015