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www.andover.edu/intouchof those, 48 have given every year of the past 10 ormore. Our participation rate was 49 percent.Feel free to contact either Phil if you wouldlike to share news of yourself with the rest of us.If you would like to receive our infrequent butnewsworthy e-mails, send your address to eitherof us. We promise not to abuse the privilege. And,remember, one other place where you mightfind out about your classmates is the Internet.—The Other Phil (Bowers)1957ABBOTAnne Boswell5 Choate RoadHanover NH 03755-1701603-643-5043aboswell@valley.netLucinda “Lulu” Cutler267 Legend Hill RoadMadison CT 06443-1881203-779-5859lucindacutler@gmail.comValerie Ogden Phillips writes:“Dearest Lulu,“I have nothing that compares with themagnificent pictures sent to us, but I am very happythat my biography, Bluebeard: Brave Warrior, BrutalPsychopath, has just been launched by HistoryPublishing Company. It is the true story of a warhero and Joan of Arc’s protector on the battlefield,who left the military when he could not save Joanfrom the enemy and became the notorious serialkiller nicknamed Bluebeard. The story is timely, ashistorical evidence suggests Bluebeard, a returningsoldier, developed severe PTSD, which perhapstriggered his latent psychopathy. While gruesome,the story is humbling. True to the religious beliefspracticed in 15th-century France, the families ofBluebeard’s victims forgave him for his murderswhen he displayed deep remorse. I would love toget everyone’s opinion on the work; the website iswww.bluebeardthebook.com. Best to all.”Thank you, Valerie, for sending your excitingnews about the book you have written. I amordering it.The Cutler family is thriving. Jim III, my oldestson, is 51 and a captain with Delta Air Lines.He lives in my town of Madison, Conn. Alec, 49,is CEO of a global financial company and alsocompetes in world-class sailing. Peter, 48, lives inFairfield, Conn., and works with a small softwarecompany. Their wonderful children—seven ofthem, ranging in age from 13 to 18—are involved insports and music and also do well in school. I lovemy daughters-in-law, too. At this writing, I was lookingforward to a month in Vero Beach, Fla., overthe winter. Anne Luquer Boswell has moved toan assisted living facility near Hanover, N.H. Pleasesend news to Anne and/or me. Love to all. —LuluPHILLIPSStephen C. Trivers151 South Rose St., Suite 611Kalamazoo MI 49007269-385-2757Stephen@StephenTrivers.comGregory Wierzynski4426 Klingle St., NWWashington DC 20016202-686-9104gregor@wierzynski.comClass website: www.andover57.ning.comTo judge from Christmas letters we received,neither the progress of years nor the cruel conditionof the world appears to have dampened the spiritsand wanderlust of classmates.In his letter, Bob Darnton says that he took asabbatical from his job as Harvard’s librarian and,as he puts it, “squandered it” on travel in LatinAmerica, with “rest stops” in France and England,where he delivered lectures at the British Libraryin London on efforts to control expression inBourbon France, the British Raj, and CommunistEast Germany. He’s written a book on the subject,Censors at Work, available on Amazon. Bob alsocreated a website, www.robertdarnton.org, allowingvisitors to rummage through the rich archive of theSociété typographique de Neuchâtel, Switzerland,and gain insight into the world of books on theeve of the French Revolution. During the year,and much to his regret, all three of Bob’s childrenmoved to locations distant from his and wifeSusan’s Cambridge apartment. “We may have to geta dog after all,” Bob laments.“It was an interesting year, but a good one,”Diane and Phil Olsson report. They welcomedtheir first granddaughter in July, and soon afterwardPhil had yet another surgery, but one that finallyworked, to fix a busted hip. Ensconced in Sanibel,Fla., for the winter, he is regaining his normal stride.Vicky and Ron Campbell celebratedChristmas—and their 50th weddinganniversary—in Costa Rica, in the company oftheir children and grandchildren, 10 in all. “I havethoroughly relished my first year of retirement,”Ron writes.Given their Buddhist persuasion, Yvonne andBill Sterling did not celebrate Christmas as a holiday.Bill’s main event was his sister’s 70th birthday,a three-generation family affair in Palm Springs,Calif., including “siblings, children, children-in-law,nieces, nephews, grandchildren—16 in all for everymeal.” Bill penned an amusing description of thisadventure in his class letter, which, as usual, you’llfind on the class website.From Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Austen Zechadashed off this note: “I’ve been flat out startingup my 12th marketing communications agencyin the Asia-Pacific region. Unlike all my previousagencies, which I managed to sell to Westernmultinationals, I’ve become affiliated with Japan’sfourth-largest agency, Daiko. ...My personallife has also been ‘active,’ as I got engaged to arecently retired Malaysia Airlines chief stewardess,welcomed another daughter-in-law into the family,and became a grandfather for the sixth time. I alsomanaged to get my golf handicap down to 18.”Lee and Tom Terr y marked Christmas with aconcert by the Renaissance Revival, the a capellagroup they founded 38 years ago. After the holidays,Tom packed his string bass and Lee’s mandolininto their car, and they drove off to Florida,hoping to pick up gigs there with their band, theSeldom Heard. “Making music with others adds adimension that playing by oneself doesn’t reach,”Tom says.Gentleman farmer Jim Blackmon, alas, spentthe holidays mourning his favorite cow, which diedafter a difficult birth. “Cows are usually just cows,”Jim writes. “She was special.” This one—407, asshe was called—liked classical music and havingher head rubbed. Sam Suitt used to send herChristmas cards.Sam has been traveling to remote areas of Chinaand Myanmar. In Yunnan, China’s most backwardprovince, he writes, “a principal objective for mewas mingling with the numerous hill tribes thatinhabit those areas. Many wear stunning tribalgarb as everyday dress. A major surprise wasthe widespread improvement in the quality oflife. Construction was going on throughout theregion. Skylines were virtual forests of high-risecranes. Myanmar was quite the opposite: an oxcarteconomy, but with millennia-old history. There arestill areas that are off-limits because of resistanceand fighting.”For his annual opera run-through party,John Austin picked Otto Nicolai’s 1849 classic,The Merry Wives of Windsor. It was also the occasionfor a micro class reunion. Jim Cook on the tromboneand John, double bass, played in the 50-strongorchestra, while Lee and Tom Terry, Seth Rice, andBrian Pendleton and wife Susan Stein sang in the35-voice chorus. John McConnell participated asan enthusiastic spectator.Stephanie and Fred Shuman were the subjectof a Wall Street Journal “Donor of the Day” columnin November. As a single father early in his career,Fred liked to end his day jogging around thereservoir in New York’s Central Park with his twochildren. To ensure similar enjoyment for futuregenerations of New Yorkers, Fred and Stephaniemade a gift of $5 million to the Central ParkConservancy to cover repairs and maintenance ofthe track in perpetuity.Bill Kammerer writes from Saint Augustinethat he’s had it with summers in Florida, where he’sremained since retiring from the Mayo Clinic inPonte Vedra, and is looking for a place “up North.”From Tucson, Gary Hammond says he’s superbusy tutoring adult learners in reading and mathand, on the side, taking guitar and dancing lessons.From Woodside, Calif., Nappy MacNaughtonreports he still dabbles in real estate and invitesclassmates who find themselves in the vicinityof Stanford University to stop by.Andover | Spring 201579