Red & Gray Magazine: Focus on Service Learning - The Fessenden ...

CLASS NOTESday to go into small towns and to bird. I wassaddened by the death of Sam Howes ’48 acouple of years ago. He and I roomed togetherfor two years, the last year of which was atWebster House. He and I had always maintainedat least some sort of contact. In recentyears we had stayed with him and and hiswife Susan a number of times. We have fondmemories of these visits. (October 2008)Rick and Susan Mohun in northeastern Iceland.1949Buzzy Schleybuzzman1@netzero.com72 Trumbull RoadEast Falmouth, MA 025361950Roger Gaines ’50 (gainesrq@aol.com) hasretired in Olympia, Washington, and enjoystravel with and without grandchildren.(November 2009)1951Bob WithingtonP.O. Box 1183Norwich, VT 050551952George Bodman ’52 (blrclgdr@aol.com) is verybusy in the decontamination of nuclear andfossil fuel boiler business. He is also doinglitigation cases as an expert witness. He travelsextensively and is “just having a greattime” with two farms and two houses inNew England, New Jersey and Texas.(November 2009)John Shewmaker ’52 (johnshewmaker@earthlink.net) writes from Columbia,driving around Missouri with our son goingto various and sundry fiddle contests, whichhe sometimes wins, sometimes not … This isolder, much older and stranger music [thanbluegrass] … Folks who like Nashville musicare entitled to their choices: this is ours …I have, acting as a lawyer, created a numberof non-profit educational and arts corporations,including two private elementaryschools, one inner-city art school, … andthe National Federation of CommunityBroadcasters. I have [been involved in]Precision Teaching, which is a way of measuringacademic and other accomplishmentas a student proceeds, as a navigation tool,day by day, with accuracy, far superior tothe usual educational metric of ‘percentscorrect.’” (November 2009)1953Ned Tatentate@tateandfoss.com825 Central RoadP.O. Box 276Rye Beach, NH 03871William Brown ’53 (bbbrown@vermontel.net) is semi-retired in Grafton,Vermont, as a master carpenter, cabinet makerand furniture maker. He enjoys skiing andmotorcycle touring and plans to ride toOregon this coming summer. He has been avolunteer firefighter for twenty-five years. Inaddition to his volunteer firefighter post, hehas held several community positions on theSchool Building Committee, Capital BudgetCommittee and Planning Board, and has beena Flood Zoning Administrator. He currentlyserves on the Flood Zoning Board, GraftonImprovement Association and GraftonFireman's Association and is also aQuartermaster for The <strong>Red</strong> Knights Int.Motorcycle Club, Vermont II Chapter.(November 2009)Robert Chapin ’53 (rchapin@chapinlaw.com)writes from Delray Beach, Florida,“Life is good for me and my family: [my]wife and our three daughters. We are blessedwith good health. I enjoy my membership inAmerican College of Trust and EstateCounsel and in the International Academy ofTrust and Estate Counsel. We enjoy coolsummers in the mountains in western NorthCarolina.” Bob practices law in Delray Beachand serves his community in many ways,including leadership positions at his church,Old School Square Cultural Arts Center,Bethesda Memorial Hospital, the city council,Human Relations Committee, and Chamberof Commerce. (November 2009)Alan “Pete” Tenney ’53 (pete10e@ttc-cmc.net)writes from White Sulphur Springs, Montana,“I’m a freelance film, television and outdoorwriter (<strong>Red</strong>-Eye Productions) and split mytime between my home in the south centralMontana Rockies, where I hunt and fish; andmy home in a little fishing village two-thirdsof the way down the Baja Peninsula onMexico’s Sea of Cortez where I write, fishand explore the Central Sierra which formsBaja’s spine. I’m fascinated by ancient pre-Columbian cave paintings which, some havingbeen carbon-dated at over 15,000 yearsold, far predate anything from the Mayans,Aztecs, Caribs or Anasazi.” (November 2009)1954Bayard Livingston ’54 (buliving@aol.com)writes, “I have done a fair amount of travelwith my wife in past months. We took acruise through the Panama Canal in April. InAugust we spent time in Paris and took acruise on the Seine, highlighted by a visit tothe battlefields in Normandy. In January, wetravel to Australia and New Zealand for amonth, and then in June we are planning tovisit the Canadian Rockies. In between, Ihave been traveling to Little Rock to attend tomy Trustee duties for Heifer Foundation … anon-profit organization whose mission is toend world hunger and poverty while caringfor the earth. www.heifer.org” (November2009)20 w w w . f e s s e n d e n . o r g