Views from the Hill | 2023 Issue 1

CLASS NOTES

HOPKINS GRAMMAR 1660–1972

DAY 1938–1960

PROSPECT HILL 1930–1960

HOPKINS SCHOOL 1972–PRESENT

DAY PROSPECT HILL 1960–1972

MRS. DAY’S 1916–1938

Please join us on June 2 and 3, 2023, for Hopkins’ Reunion for classes ending in 3 and 8!

1948 HGS 75th Reunion, June 2–3, 2023 Marvin Arons msarons@optimum.net

1950 HGS Robert DeFeo rhdefeo@gmail.com

actual date, 20 June, was also Father’s Day. I got the usual cards. Assembling our whole family is a difficult and expensive undertaking. Doing so twice in less than seven months was not realistic. Give our regards to remaining classmates. I fondly remember our 50th reunion.” 1950 DAY AND PHS Alumnae interested in serving as correspondents for the Class of 1950 DAY or PHS may contact Donna Vinci at classnotes@hopkins.edu.

The number 90 is significant, as several classmates, including me, have achieved that number in age and are pleased to still be above ground. My children and those of Bob Newman , Larry Stern , Wayne Weil , and Al Mongillo all provided birthday events honoring us on the occasions. They were all heartwarming events. Jim Colby returned to the U.S., his first time in decades, to attend his brother’s passing and he asked to be remembered to all our classmates. Jim Bowers : “I don’t have much to say about turning 90. We made a big deal about Jytte reaching 90 at Christmas time (2021) with the gathering of our family: Benedikte, James Keith and children Norm and Kaili from Michigan; Michelle, Torben and their children Sabine and Megan from Denmark; our son, Eric, from Spearfish, South Dakota; at the home of our oldest daughter Christine and her husband, Hugh, in Florida. Their present to their mother and grandmother was the publication of her memoirs, Freedom’s Candles: From Tiananmen to Vilnius . We both belong to a writers’ group, the Bearlodgewriters.com, which is coming out with an anthology this month in which both of us have five pieces published. We’ll be happy to send copies of both to anyone who wants to read them. As for my own birthday, when Jytte turned 90, I considered myself to be the same age. The

Here is your list of classmates who are active, alive, alert, and awake: Marvin S. Arons , Alan S. Cooper , J. Peter Doughan , David E. Fitzgerald , Gordon D. Hall , Henry S. Harrison , David Seccombe , and Stephen I. Traub . I am reluctant to call us survivors. Now, geographic locations: two are in Connecticut, and one each resides in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, and Ohio. At our graduation on June 11, 1948, 54 classmates were listed in the official program and were awarded diplomas. However, in the 1948 Pantagraph (yearbook), only 49 photographs of our classmates were included. Perhaps someone could explain this discrepancy by the next time these Class Notes are published. 1949 HGS Robert Archambault thearchambaults@optonline.net

1951 HGS AND DAY Alumni interested in serving as correspondents for the Class of 1951 HGS or DAY may contact Donna Vinci at classnotes@hopkins.edu. 1951 PHS

Joan Haskell Vicinus joanvicinus@yahoo.com

In response to my Christmas message to classmates, I first heard from Susan Adams Mott that her husband had died at age 90, and that she was coping as best as she could in a silent house in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Sukie Hilles Bush is anticipating getting knee surgery in January 2023. We wish her luck. Susan Myers Jacobs says that she has slowed down a bit, but she looks forward to walking around her apartment, outside, with her walker, just not doing as much as she used to do. My

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