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Pamela Flattau writes:
Hello John and Jim: Following Ed's passing in April 2021, Brown University Archives invited our family to submit Ed's "environmental writings" for inclusion in the Climate Change Collection at the John Hay Library. This set of writings includes over 4,000 OpEd columns, about which you can learn more at www.edflattau.com.
Take care.
Pamela Ebert Flattau, PhD
[Editors’ note: One of the last columns by Edward Flattau ’58 dealt with “Lessons Not Learned” about the environment. It appears on the “Having My Say” page of this website.}
Notes Provided by Class Secretary Jill Hirst Scobie (jscobie58@verizon.net):
June 2022:
Sandy McFarland Taylor has been in touch with her childhood bestie, Carol Jadick Hanson, who lives in Lawrenceville, N.J. Sandy visited Carol this past February, traveling with her daughter, Sarah Taylor ’90, from Tuxedo Park.
John Reistrup writes that his granddaughter, Gina Reistrup, is studying for her master’s in public health at George Washington University while also being gainfully employed at a public health clinic at George Mason University. She went to Mpala Research Center in Kenya to learn research methods of vector-borne disease surveillance, i.e., tracking the spread of disease by mosquitoes, ticks, etc.
Kay Ulry Baker writes: “I finally organized myself (including those books, spices, and just about everything else). I sold both New York and Florida townhouses and instead am living in a Lifecare Retirement Community on Long Island. It took quite a bit of downsizing, but I think the Jefferson’s Ferry community here in South Setauket, New York, is worth all that hassle. I’ve had the opportunity to make new friends, renew some old pastimes, and develop new interests. This is a vibrant place that encourages continuing development along with the security of a community. Quite a life change, but always something new.”
Class Secretary Jill Hirst Scobie writes: “Once again I am urging you to frequent the Class of 1958 website (https://sites.google.com/brown.edu/brown-class-of-1958/) or simply search for ‘Brown Class of 1958.’ The class website, set up with the help of Alumni Relations, features many sources of information previously scattered. Just above a letter of greeting from our copresidents, you can learn how to update your profile. This will enable you to get in touch with other alums via info in the Brown database. You can enjoy a photo gallery immortalizing decades of our reunions and mini reunions, news, notes, and tributes to classmates, links to our Class of 1958 Newsletter, Brown Insider newsletter, and the Brown Daily Herald, as well as to the BAM. Copresidents Jim Moody ’65 ScM and Jane Bertram Miluski would like you to bear in mind that in May 2023 we will be celebrating our 65th reunion. Oh, mercy, mercy me! Who knows where the time goes!”
April 2022:
John Spicer writes: “Let me share a family story of remarkable good luck. It is a sea story, an outing planned well ahead by my son, Doug, in Westport, Massachusetts, where our class held its recent anniversary celebration at the Acoaxet Club. The summer of ’21 had been a party to storms and much fog on the Rhode Island oceanfront and Hurricane Henri was heading toward us just as Doug was planning to take me and five family members to sea by way of the Westport River estuary in a friend’s Herreshoff Alerion sloop. The eye of the storm was headed directly for our harbor, but then she (sorry, boats and hurricanes are sexist) slowed her forward progress. I had the helm from the dock and took her into the harbor, on a rising wind against strong tide, sailing a rolling broad tack over tall swells, ripped with refreshing spray. It was a glorious day of full sun and wind, tucked between eerie calm and the expected storm. Henri turned back towards Connecticut and on to New York. But five miles out to sea, we all took turns at the tiller with full sun and wind and returned safely to port.”
Bob Feldman writes: “By the time these class notes appear I will know whether my daughter Hannah has been accepted, rejected, or waitlisted at Brown. She spent last summer attending the Brown Summer School, albeit online. My guess is that there are not many of us who have a daughter applying to Brown for that class (2026). On a non-family note, I thoroughly enjoyed the John Willenbecher show at the Craig F. Starr Gallery in New York. The show presents drawings and sculptures that John created in the late ’60s. Clever, beguiling, and bewitching.”
[Webmaster's note: The news about Hannah's application was disappointing. See Online Conversations]
January 2022:
James Noonan of Oldwick, N.J., attended St. Raphael’s Academy in Pawtucket, R.I., where he played basketball and golf (captain), and was on the track team. An engaged alum, he has become very active within the last ten years, both donating and raising money. Because of this dedicated activity he has been elected to the St. Ray’s Hall of Fame and, along with three others, will be fêted on April 2, 2022.
James Mello writes: “Our son, Roger, and his wife and I have started a woodworking business called Mellowood. Our principal product is Adirondack chairs, but we make other items as well.”
Sandy Taylor
November 2021:
Sandy McFarland Taylor, who resigned this year from her position as Co-President of the Class of 1958. brought intelligence, wisdom, energy, great ideas, endless good humor, and boundless enthusiasm to this office. She was present at every reunion and every mini-reunion. She’d be there to greet you and there to ensure that all ended well. And she attests that she “loved every minute of it.” As the mother of three daughters, two of whom are also Brown graduates, she is and always has been deeply committed to the university and invested in its future.
We salute you, Co-President Sandy, and thank for all your work on behalf of our class over the years. You really have been “ever true.”
As Co-Presidents, Jane and Jim will make a dynamic duo, I’d wager.
October 2021:
Paul Johnson, a Sigma Nu, writes that he visited Bill Chadwick, a Kappa Sigma. Both are connected to Vero Beach, Florida.
Leslie Feifer Peltier welcomed a third great-grandchild, Cleo, born ctober '20 in Chicago, and hopes that Cleo and her parents will visit the East Coast. Great-grandchildren #1 and #2 currently live in Oklahoma. Last year a grandson gave her StoryWorth as a Christmas present. "Weekly you receive questions/prompts to encourage you to write about various aspects of your life. You submit your writing to StoryWorth and at the end of a year all your writings are bound into a keepsake book. Voila! A memoir!"
John Willenbecher writes: "I will be having an exhibition at the Craig F. Starr Gallery, 5 East 73rd St. New York City, from October 5, 2021, to January 15, 2022. The show will consist not of recent paintings but of my earliest paintings on paper and constructions from the 1960s."
(Poster for the show is at left. The gallery's press release notes "the exhibition will showcase ten box constructions and six related works on paper from 1962-67. Most of these seminal works are being shown publicly for the first time. This show marks the artist’s first exhibition in New York in almost two decades and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an introduction by Dan Cameron, a New York based curator and art critic.")
April 2021:
Janet Woodley Koch moved from Rehoboth Beach, DE, to the Templeton of Cary, a continuing care retirement community in North Carolina, to be near her daughter Barbara and granddaughters Nicole, Katie, and Emily.
Joseph M. Kusmiss published his second book of haiku, Spring Visitors, with Red Moon Press. His first haiku book, end of summer, was published in 2015.
Shirley Sanderson Avery is caring for an ailing spouse. She continues to be engaged with St. Andrew’s, her church in New London, NH She is delighted that her daughter and son-in-law have moved next door and is grateful for her son, daughter, in-laws and two grandchildren as well.
Abbe Robinson Young moved from her home in Newton, MA, to NewBridge on the Charles in Dedham, MA. She is enjoying herself by continuing to participate in her exercise class (at first virtually and now socially distanced but in person). She’s also learning new things and taking up new interests such as playing poker and setting up a bird feeder. She is developing a new passion, opera, with a virtual course. Her classmate, Dr. Dorothy Cotton-Pemstein, also lives at NewBridge.
Joe and Jane Bertram Miluski are staying home and keeping well, and managed a tiny Christmas socially distancing with two of their five children: Hank and Mary K. Miluski ’81. Jane is filling the days with reading, knitting, and walking but was gleefully anticipating reaching a three-day, distanced-but-live watercolor workshop in February. She remains grateful that in 2019 she realized a dream of getting most of their large family together for two weeks in a Tuscan vineyard.
Nancy Redden James volunteers with Ventures in Community, which includes various houses of worship, nonprofits, and social agencies that work together. Nancy works for its hypothermia outreach program that provides shelter for homeless people each night from December through March. Prior to the pandemic she served as an overnight chaperone and she still contributes by providing meals.
ORDER A CD OF 'BRUNONIA MEDLEY'
Some classmates have expressed interest in ordering a copy of the Brunonia Medley, arranged by Leroy Anderson, performed by the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Association, and conducted by our own Ulysses “Jim” James at the Class Mini Reunion in Washington, DC. It is 7 minutes of great Brown music and is sure to be enjoyed by all.
If you'd like the CD, remit $10.00 with your name and address to:
Jim Moody, 17 Robin Hood Dr., Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046
You can check on WMPA recitals and concerts at this link:
ALUMNI HONOREES
The Association of Class Leaders honored Co-President Jim Moody with the 2020 Nan Tracy ’46 Award for "distinguished service to his/her class, the Association of Class Leaders, and/or the University." The ceremony to present the award was canceled because of COVID-19, but Jim was ready with an acceptance speech. You can read it in the Brown58Newsletter:
https://brown58newsletter.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/newsletter-issue-12-july-2020.pdf
COMMUNICATIONS TEAM: Your Class of 1958 communications team received the Alumni Achievement Award from the Brown Alumni Association in October 2019. Members of the team are Class Secretary Jill Hirst Scobie and Newsletter Co-Editors Jim Furlong and John Reistrup.
The Class of '58 also was proud to have two of its members honored at the 2014 Brown Alumni Association Recognition Awards Luncheon.
Bill Corrigan received an Alumni Service Award for his work as a Club Leader, Class Leader and his longstanding dedication to the Brown Hockey Program. Starting as a student manager of the hockey team, he has logged a lot of time at Mennen Arena.
Susan Adler Kaplan was given the Ittleson Award for her dedication to Brown over the years, her enthusiastic involvement in Class Reunion Gift campaigns and her prior service as a member of the Brown Annual Fund Executive Committee. Susan was a Brown Trustee (1986-1992) and is Chair of the Trustee Emeriti Executive Committee. She is also Associate Chair of the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership and serves on the Diversity Council.
A "well done" to Susan and Bill!
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SUPER GRANDPARENTS CONTEST!
The winner of this contest, held during our 55th Reunion, was Dick Carolan with 18 grandkids. WOW, that’s an awful lot of birthdays to remember and presents to give. Congrats, Dick!
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