major event this past July was the death of my sister, Judith Brown Haskell Auchincloss 1957 phs , after six years of managing ALS. We, the family, buried her ashes in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in the Haskell family plot. Then, on December 3, there was a wonderful memorial service for her in Manhattan, New York. Judith was a graduate of Vassar College, from which she traveled frequently to New York City, and there was no doubt that she was going to move to Manhattan and spend the rest of her life there. She supported the arts, had season tickets to the opera, and music and art were a very large part of her life. My sister Ann Haskell Knight ’55 phs has moved to my CCRC community, RiverWoods, in Exeter, New Hampshire. It is wonderful to have her here, and we spend quite a bit of time together. 1952 HGS, DAY, AND PHS Alumni interested in serving as correspondents for the Class of 1952 HGS, DAY, or PHS may contact Donna Vinci at classnotes@hopkins.edu. 1953 HGS, DAY, AND PHS 70th Reunion, June 2–3, 2023 Alumni interested in serving as correspondents for the Class of 1953 HGS, PHS, or DAY may contact Donna Vinci at classnotes@hopkins.edu. 1954 HGS Bob Wood bobsmail1936@yahoo.com 1954 DAY AND PHS Alumnae interested in serving as correspondents for the Class of 1954 DAY or PHS may contact Donna Vinci at classnotes@hopkins.edu. 1955 HGS Woolsey S. Conover, Jr. woolcon@aol.com Woolsey Conover , your class scribe, writes that Bea and I had two granddaughters, sisters, who studied this past year at that other New Haven School, the one named for Eli Yale. The younger of the two, Nell Conover-Crockett (see photo of her with
her proud grandparents), received her undergraduate degree with high honors and has been accepted to attend Yale Law School starting next year. Meanwhile, she is working for a consulting firm that has a number of contracts with New Haven and the State. Her older sister, Emma Conover- Crockett, has started her second year at the Yale School of Management and looks forward to a career in management consulting. Peter Goldbecker reports: “I was here (in Florida) for the hurricane, and it was a frightening experience. The area I am in was very fortunate, as we didn’t lose power. Other areas not too far away did. Lots of trees and limbs down, and clean-up will take a long time.” As has been reported to the class, Henry “Hank” Wesley Powell died on July 9, 2022, surrounded by his family. After receiving a B.A. from Yale in 1959, Hank served for three years in the Army before embarking on a long career of scholarship, teaching, and coaching. He completed master’s degrees from Yale and NYU and a doctorate in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he then directed the university’s learning skills program. Hank returned to New Haven and spent more than 20 years teaching English, leading a reading program, and coaching the fencing team at his alma mater, Hopkins School. A lifelong athlete, Hank captained the Yale fencing team, fenced internationally and for the New York Athletic Club, and continued to compete late into life. As a coach, he was immensely proud of his teams at Hopkins, which he led to numerous state championships, and of his many athletes who went on to fulfilling athletic, academic, and professional careers. In his teaching, Hank passed along his deep love of literature to generations of students, who remember his classes as forums for discussion and laughter. He took up other pursuits, from tennis to fly-fishing to raising hunting dogs, with the same zeal and eye for detail that he brought to the fencing piste. Hank was predeceased by his brother, James “Jay” Wesley Powell ’56 hgs , and is survived by his wife, Margaret Ketchum Powell; his son, John Setian Powell; his daughter-in-law, Brittany Elizabeth Powell; and many nieces and nephews.
ABOVE: Woolsey Conover ’55 HGS and his wife, Bea, with their granddaughter Nell Conover-Crockett upon her graduation from Yale University.
1955 DAY Alice Watson Houston alice.houston@yahoo.com 1955 PHS
Lucie Giegengack Teegarden teegarden_lucie@comcast.net I’m sorry to begin this class column with the sad news of our loss of another classmate, Emily Mendillo Wood . Those of you who live in the New Haven area will already have seen or heard this news. Judy Bassin Peknik , Judy Buck Moore , and Pat Spykman Winer all attended a memorial service for Emily that was held August 20 at Emily’s tennis club in Laurel Beach, Connecticut, and appreciated the opportunity to gather with Emily’s family and friends in her honor. Emily attended Foote School before Prospect Hill and graduated from Simmons College in 1959. She later earned a master’s degree in social work and became a registered nurse. After her career in social work and nursing ended with retirement, she engaged in numerous hobbies and was a benefactor of the bird sanctuary at Milford Point, where memorials may be made to the Coastal Center of the Connecticut Audubon Society. Emily is survived by her son, Col. (Ret.) Rawson Wood (Susan), and daughter, Leila (Chuck) Stuhr, and six grandchildren,
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