Class Notes March/April 2004

Class Notes March/April 2004

Upcoming events. Northwest mini-reunion, September 16-19 in Oregon, in anticipation of the Lewis & Clark bicentennial, organized by Carl Farrington, Mal Harris, Ed Newbegin and Page Stockwell. If you’d like to join this list and help, please let Carl or me know. Skybox, Princeton football game, November 13, 2004? Tony Dunn and Jeff Miller arranged for a skybox (private tent at top of Yale Bowl) for 40 of us, at $42 per person, including parking, tickets, sandwiches, soda and beer, at the past Dartmouth game, but we had to cancel it because of insufficient signups. We don’t know if this was because of a late and confusing mailing (the fault of yours truly) or a fundamental lack of interest. So, undeterred, we’re trying to see if a skybox at the Princeton game will attract a critical mass of us. If you think you’d like to participate, please let Tony (212-339-0315), Jeff (806-665-3532) or me (804-435-7088) know. Inspired by reading Selling From the Heart by Seth Hoyt, Terry Ellsworth’s son, Tod, has twice been named Salesman of the Year at Greenhill Music in Nashville. Nick Guthrie married Gigi Kegg a year ago. (He sent a great wedding picture). They live at 62C Heritage Hill Rd., New Canaan, CT 06840-4607 (203-966-6192) with her two children. Nick continues to teach high school physics in Naugatuck, and Gigi is pursuing a MSW. Nick’s sons are all nearby: Ned in Boston, Charlie at Dartmouth and Andrew at Darien High School. Jay Lavely is having a great time in California. He has an interesting entertainment law practice in Century City at Lavely & Singer, which he co-founded over 20 years ago, representing figures such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford and Catherine Zeta-Jones (as reported in The National Law Journal). Jay enjoys outdoor life, which includes or included hang gliding and SCUBA diving. I had a nice telephone chat with Charlie “Doc” Marshall shortly before Christmas and tried to persuade him to reaffiliate with our Class. (Doc started freshman year with us and graduated in 1967). Doc’s retired and enjoying life (of course) in Washington, D.C. Kent Nelson will be a visiting professor in English at the University of Texas in Austin. Excelsior. Gil Ott reports that son Gib (16) is now taller than he is and that daughter Laura (12) has passed her mother, Lisa. The Otts enjoy life in Oyster Bay. Excluded from their wives’ reading group in Providence, Barry Preston and some friends started their own all-male book group, which was pictured in the November 2, 2003 New York Times Magazine and captioned “Real men do read.” Thanks to the ever-vigilant Mike Hanson for submitting this morsel. Bob Seibert has retired from pediatric otolaryngology, but wife Joanna still practices pediatric radiology while also working as an Episcopal deacon. They travel and enjoy their three grandchildren, all in Little Rock. Rusty Tilney is converting some old factory buildings, where edged tools like axes were honed on grindstones, into restaurants, shops and condominiums in Collinsville, a village in Canton, CT.