pretty sure they didn’t … (wait for it) … me a chance to catch up with the affable
Class of 1975
HAVE to get married!” (Kangaroo court and popular long-lost son of ’73, Michael
sentenced him to two weeks of work squad Barclay de Tolly. He proudly displayed There is no correspondent for your class.
as Larry Perry’s ’72 lotion boy for that photos of his darling son and daughter. If you’d like to volunteer, please contact Toni
gem.) The rest of Friday night finished up He’s totally immersed in the local Newport Ciany in the Alumni/ae Office at 1-888-
as one would have predicted, with the music scene, performing, teaching, etc. I’m I-CALL-SG or
toni_ciany@stgeorges.edu.
people you suspected of being up to no almost sure he mentioned that he teaches
good not having changed one bit. near or with Sue Coen ’74. The highlight of
Class of 1976
Saturday started off cloudy but cleared
the dinner was the slide show made from
up by 11 a.m. I caught the dedication of the
our yearbook pix, greeted as usual with
Katherine Pratt
new quad in front of Diman North (now
much whooping and cheering. Also
6114 La Salle Avenue
Eccles Hall) now that they knocked down
appearing was a sample of the vintage
Apartment 450
the old pool. As usual, there was a big bar-
video reels that the school is digitizing. Oakland, CA 94611
becue on the lawn outside of King Hall with
Then, we somehow managed to squeeze all Fax: 510-666-0161
a groovy live rock band and we were joined
classmates into a big team photo, that shy E-mail:
katherine.pratt@yahoo.com
by the lovely current SG students Eliza
and retiring Pam Shepley “dropped-it-like-
Ghriskey ’10 (thank god she favors her
it’s-hot” in the lap of Mark Wynne-Willson’s
Class of 1977
mother) and Maria Gebelein ’10 (ditto).
father, Michael Wynne-Willson ’37 who
Just as lunch was finishing, good dad Seth
was nice enough to join us in the photo.
A. Peter Barbaresi
Cunningham split for Portsmouth Priory to
My mom had knitted me a pair of SG 4 Hillsborough
watch his first-born son and heir run for
shield socks, which I was anxious to show Newport Beach, CA 92660
the (boo-hiss) Zebra harriers, but we
off, so I grabbed the other chair, and found Phone: 323-573-1975
E-mail:
pbarbaresi@aol.com
gained in a quick hello from my personal
myself supporting the light-as-a-feather
hero, gentleman farmer John Adams. If my
Lisa Bippart. By the way, Bips, that was a
memory serves, John is a stay-at-home dad
Chap-Stick, and not much of a compliment,
Dateline: May 2008 around Memorial
for kids who are barely at home and he’s got
thankyouverymuch. Tom Bullitt won the
Day. I am a desperate man. Deadlines loom.
the wife working. He was dashing to get the
$100 pool on Pam’s underpants with his
Information is limited. A random thought
perfect Peggy on a plane for Europe. Adams
guess No. 6: scanty! Also, McGraw and Jay
enters my brain. Where is Dickie Corroon? It
for President! (and A for effort for coming
Johnston both tied for the “Good Dad”
has been years. Always fun to be with. A
quite a way just for a fast lunch.)
award by arising at the crack of dawn Sun-
character unique. Google. Strike. Discovery:
day to return home to watch spawn athlet-
a blip about our man and how he met his
As the athletics contests weren’t sched-
ics, and it wasn’t even the playoffs!
soon-to-be wife from a New York Times
uled to start until later in the afternoon,
article (social page, no doubt). This should
’73 as a group walked down to the beach.
Sunday was pretty much taken up by a
be interesting … It reads: “ She walked
We must have gone at least a mile, and we
very well-attended chapel service, including
down to the end of the bar, stood right next
did stuff you would expect guys like us to
a moving dedication of a window for Mered-
to Mr. Corroon, ordered a beer and intro-
do, including the distribution of more
ith Maher Peterson ’88. By the way, the engi-
duced herself. ‘He gave me this strange look,’
cigars by Jono. Jay Johnston treated us to
neers have concluded that the chapel
said Miss Poole, who is 30 (at the time). ‘He
lemon ices on the way back; a great, great
building itself needs work, so pony up, you
said, ‘My mother’s name is Helen. My great-
walk. Later we watched really accomplished
pikers. The drive home to NYC was marred
grandmother’s name is Helen. My sister’s
girls softball, new to many of us, and
by Jono smoking not one, but TWO seegars
name is Helen and she’s pregnant with a girl
cheered at boy’s lacrosse. Caught a glimpse
on the return. Despite all of that, a good
whose name will be Helen.’ Mr. Corroon, 39
of proud parent Peter Lawson-Johnston ’75
time was had by all.
(we know he is waaaay beyond that now),
and his perfect peach of a wife. They had Well, that about wraps things up for our
was an executive of Willis Corroon in New
flown up from their home in Connecticut 35
th
, except for this closing thought from
York, a successor to Corroon & Black, an
in a (horror of horrors) common prop Peter Bullard: “Come the revolution, St.
insurance brokerage company founded by
plane. Apparently the L.J. space shuttle was George’s School is going to be very, very hard
his grandfather and his great-uncle. He
getting the tires rotated. I remember his to explain.”
remembers, ‘I liked her right off the bat. We
wife told me once they discussed what to
See you all at Jack’s wedding!
started talking, and by the time we were
name their children on their first date: All
finished, there was probably about another
together now, “Aaaawwww!!!”
six inches of snow on the ground.’”
Phillet “Mr. Secretary” Dean borrowed
Class of 1974
Careful, if I only could find the time
a shower after giving McGraw and me a lift
There is no correspondent for your class.
to dig dirt on the rest of us …
in the colorful Deanmobile, borrowed
If you’d like to volunteer, please contact Toni
Nothing dirty about the report filed by
from his son Sam and replete with “Phish”
Ciany in the Alumni/ae Office at 1-888-
our man Dru Beguelin. Like many of us, he
bumper stickers. Dinner was a blast; gave
I-CALL-SG or
toni_ciany@stgeorges.edu.
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