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D idn’t get many takers on my plea to Stay-At-Home Moms, but the ones I did receive capture,
I believe, their true love of parenting. It seems in today’s busy times too many tend to view
staying at home to raise children an unaffordable luxury or a trivial “job.” It was also extremely
interesting to read about the challenges of being a solo male parent. As with the previous Hoopla
column about Brewster alum love stories, I was equally way out of my league in writing about
parenting, having rarely held a conversation with anyone younger than my English 10 students.
Thankfully, the five parents did an excellent job of writing for themselves.
I’ll be returning to subjects that I have a little more knowledge
about in the future, but with BrewsterConnections being published
three times a year now, I could really use your help. Let me know
what subjects or occupations you’d like me to focus on, or better
still, please write about your own. As I’ve pointed out several times
before, the Hoopla column came into being because many young
alums were writing fascinating, in-depth letters to me, and I felt it
would have been close to criminal to snip them down to a line or two
for the Class Notes section. So do help me out, send me your ideas or
your letters.
I’m always working on future columns: published writers and poets
being one, entrepreneurs being another, and still another, athletic
coaches. If anyone can help me out with any of these topics, please
do!
And, why I’m pleading – yep, those annoying, unreadable postcards
I send out to you each year – it really helps if you return them with
updated e-mails, telephone numbers, and I hope addresses. And
don’t forget to jot down some news, too! This is especially true for
those in classes holding their reunions this coming June 1-3, as we’d
like to send you an updated class list so that you can all plan to meet
up on campus.
Please e-mail me: islesman@batelnet.bs
Please write to me at my mail-forwarding address:
Hoopes, P.M.B. #100
411 Walnut Street
Green Cove Springs, FL 32043
Stop in if traveling in the Bahamas!
Rainbow Bay, Eleuthera
All best wishes to all!
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Matt Hoopes was a faculty member from 1975-1996
and during this time he began the Brewster Browser
student newspaper. Since his “retirement” in 1996, from
his beach house in the Bahamas or his island in Maine
or his rustic home in the woods of nearby Tuftonboro,
Hoopes has helped keep the alumni connection alive in
his role as Brewster Alumni Correspondent. Each issue
he brings life-after-Brewster stories to the pages of his
Hoopla column.