10th Reunion: The Big Red Barn

Thomas P. Loddengaard

Tom was living in Afghanistan before his family made the move to Chapel Hill where Tom enrolled at CHHS. Tom makes his living in the entertainment industry and as a behind the scenes creator of museum displays.

Exhibit Fabricator

Science Museum of

Minnesota

BA Theater & Art

Grinnell College

Class of 1976

Tom brings us up to date:

After dabbling in political science and sociology I ended up majoring in theater and art at Grinnell College. After graduating I moved to Minneapolis to do an internship at the Guthrie Theater. A couple of years later I became touring company technical director at the same comedy theater where Al Franken got his start. He moved on before I started working there, but I did work with Peter McNichol (Numbers, Ghostbusters II) and Linda Wallem (writer for That 70s Show and Nurse Jackie).

I moved on to video and film production as a freelance scenic carpenter building sets and props for commercials and corporate training films. Work ranged from building office sets to a sixteen foot long loaf of bread. I did work one hellish day on a feature film (Sign of the Times) operating fog machines and rain effects while 11 inches of the real stuff fell on the other side of the studio wall.

One of my more consistent employers has been the Twin Cities PBS affiliate, most notably on the science series Newton's Apple

and I have worked on a number of holiday concert recordings that they have produced. I continue to work on a weekly public affairs program Friday nights.

My main job is now working for the

as an exhibit fabricator. Most of our output is for other museums, and I have built exhibits for Discovery Place in Charlotte and the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Touring exhibits I have contributed to include Water Planet, Race – Are We So Different?, and Goosebumps! The Science of Fear.

Peter Morris Hardy

"Where Are They Now?" takes another trip into the land where imagination, talent and creative juices collide to make art and entertainment. If you are in Atlanta, check out Essentil a Theatre where Peter Hardy reigns as a driving force in the role of Producing Artistic Director.

This sojourn begins back in 1966 when Peter's parents made their summer job away from teaching at UNC putting on the symphonic drama Unto These Hills; William Hardy as Director than as Producer and Martha Nell Hardy acting the part of Mrs. Perkins, the crowd-pleasing, peppery mountain woman. They put on more than 2,000 performances over their thirty year run.

It's in their DNA. Peter's sister, Melissa Hardy, and Peter have also both made their mark in the world of performing arts and literature.

Administrative Staff

UNC Business Office

Susan J. Marshall Koronic

Sue's family moved to Chapel Hill during 9^th grade. Now she makes her home in Durham. She has a daughter, Christin. Sue has made her career working with Blue Cross and Blue Shield. She lost her husband unexpectedly to cancer several years ago. Sue was part of the group that met to get this reunion off the ground. She has since gone MIA. Someone give Sue a call or email her.

"WATN?" should have an update on Sue, soon.

John Benjamin Cromartie

Native Son: 13 May 1954

CHHS Vanguard

John Cromartie has been doing some contract work for "WATN?" Studios taking pictures at a couple of steering committee meeting and around town in the old neighborhoods and schools some of which should appear here soon. Don't be surprised when the phone rings and Cromartie is on the on the end encouraging classmates to to get registered. John and Agnes have three grown children and are happily living in Virginia near DC.

Writer/Director/ActorChief Bottle Washer

BA Dramatic Arts

School of Arts & Sciences

UNC at Chapel Hill

Class of 1977

Masters

Penn State University

Article featuring Peter

Essential Theatre Artistic Director Peter Hardy has had his first short story published, in the British fantasy anthology Postscripts: The Company He Keeps. Hardy has sold two additional stories, and is the prize-winning author of over twenty produced plays, including Sally and Glen at the Palace, presented as part of the 2010 Essential Theatre Play Festival, and for which he was named the Critic’s Pick for Best Atlanta Playwright by Creative Loafing.

Bother, Nell, Bill, Melissa and Peter

Peter, Melissa and many other drama and music students put on the wildly successful musical A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum in Chapel Hill in 1972. The show's amazing success led to permanently establishing an auditorium for music and drama performances at the high school.

John G, here is a bio for me:

After graduating from CHHS in 1972, I went to UNC for a long time, switching majors from English to History to Religion to Drama, finally finishing in 1977. During most of that time I worked at the Varsity Theatre, and later wrote a play inspired by my experiences there; Sally and Glen at the Palace, which won an award from the New Southern Theatre Festival in Nashville, and has been produced in Tallahassee and Atlanta. I went to Penn State for my Master's in Theatre, and eventually went to New York City for a few years, doing some directing, before re-locating to Atlanta where I've been ever since. For many years I directed the outdoor drama Unto These Hills in Cherokee, NC in the summers, and during the rest of the year in Atlanta I've been freelancing as an actor, writer and director. In March of 2012 an historical play I was commissioned to write will be produced by Coker College in SC. No marriages or children, just the usual embarrassing personal baggage.

Robert Nelson Anderson III

Rob has a pretty full plate but still found time to get this party started by helping to round up some lost sheep and serving as a member of the Reunion Steering Committee over the summer. Rob commutes to work from Carrboro where he and wife Barbara have set up their home. They have two sons, James and Martin, and an adopted nephew Aaron.

Rob along with around 30 others signed up for American English taught by Mrs. Hines in the summer of 1970 so they could walk out with a diploma a year ahead of schedule in May of 1971. He has used that extra time wisely. Among other accomplishments he can speak three languages; Portuguese, French and Spanish in addition to Southern.

John has an epiphany in the third person: After graduation from UNC, John was playing foosball at Town Hall, going to movies with Peter Hardy, hanging out with Nat and Mary Hall Rodman, and happily driving a Chapel Hill town bus (one of many alumni to work for the Chapel Hill Transit Authority). But he kept having conversations about maps with his favorite geography professor on the F bus heading to Colony Woods and ended up spending the entire 1980s in grad school. Now he's a population geographer with USDA in DC. Here's his atlas of rural and small-town America. He and Agnes (class of '71) got together that first semester at CHHS in 1969 and (finally!) married in 1980. Two kids, Will and Emma, and a dissertation later they moved to DC in 1990, added Josie in 1991 and fell into Northern Virginia suburbia, lives ruled by soccer, PTA, theater arts, and lots of trips to Nags Head and home to Chapel Hill. Now that kids are closer to being on their own, John and Ag can imagine moving into town, walking to work and theater and movies and museums and restaurants and all that DC offers.

Take care,

John

Josie, Agnes, Emma, John, Will

Nelson Junior Cotton

CHHS Vanguard

Nelson put in a career as a bus driver for the Chapel Hill Transit Authority. Since hanging up his transfer punch he enjoys gardening and his role as an activist in the community.

From Mike Esau: "Rebel was the best man at Peggy and my wedding. Later, he asked Burton Floyd and I to be ushers at his first wedding. Burton and I got lost on the way to the church that Sunday. When we got to the church the doors were locked and we had to wait outside until the ceremony had concluded. We still appeared in all the photos and got to attend the reception. Burton even got lucky later on."

Burton's take: "Jeff Umphlett had us follow him and then lost us on purpose. As far as the other, I have no idea what Esau is talking about. He's was unbalanced then and not much has changed."

The carefully carried out plans establishing the underpinnings for the Goose Family Syndicate now stretch back at least to 1955 and and literally the infancy of two of the key players; Goose Waters and purported arms dealer, Rebel "Fly" Umphlett. Check out this passenger manifest discovered at a raid conducted by Interpol at one of Goose's suspected European safe houses. It's the passenger manifest from the USN George Goethals departing on May 14, 1955 from Breaerhaven, Germany and arriving at the Port of New York on May 24. "WATN?" owner Dagny Taggart has filed pursuant the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests that the US Customs and Immigration Service (ICE) as well as the Department of Justice, CIA, FBI and Foreign Service hand over all documents pertaining to Rebel's and Goose's citizenship status and their possible roles in US foreign and domestic intrigue. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Taggart's request, citing the "Constitutional Rights to Privacy" of both Goose and Rebel.

Taggart: "This is a matter of National Security and possibly the integrity of the US Government hangs in the balance. We'll pursue this to the Supreme Court in the interests of all free citizens. My God, Mr. Umphlett has been involved in the manufacture and distribution of animal vaccines his entire life!"

Rebel Umphlett (line 3) and James "Goose" Waters (line 7), coincidental shipmates, German sleeper agents, or something more sinister?

RetiredChapel Hill Transit

Community Activist

Gardening

Virginia Corbette Bush Hackney

Native Daughter: 26 April 1954

After having been born in Chapel Hill and attending school all the way through 10^th grade Corby was another student whose family moved, this time to Wilson, and finished up high school at Fike HS. Married, raised two kids and single again, Corby still lives in Wilson.

After high school -lived at Tick Creek Commune in Chatham County. Moved to New Mexico - lived in another commune

Moved back to NC. Went to nursing school and worked at geriatric/Alzheimer's/hospice nursing from 82-94.

Went to UNC - Art major. Finished Art Education degree at NC Central at the age of 35.

Survivor of ovarian and uterine cancer since 1986...

Real Estate Agent 1995 until who knows- but not your average sort of real estate agent.

Married in 1982-1996 to Don.

Married David in 1997 in Duke Gardens - still happily married, thank you very much.

Sold vintage clothes and jewelry, cooked in restaurants for many years, worked at Somethyme Restaurant and the 9th Street Bakery.

Does some sort of art....

For the last year, been working on Reunion. Odds Bodkins, Esau support system, but anything she can do - he does over... Did do invitations, mugs, website when possible, facebook & various + sundry stuff.

One daughter - Becca - goes to ECU. Looked alot alike in the early years, but not so much anymore. Now Becca is beautiful...