as well as two brothers and other extended family. Judy Bassin Peknik wrote that losing Emily was a blow, but she thinks often about the fun times they had together. She attended the memorial with her daughter. Others of us saw Emily perhaps at Foote reunions and at some of our class reunions over the years. We also offer our sympathy to Ann “Pickle” Haskell Knight on the loss of her sister, Judith Haskell Auchincloss ’57 phs , who died July 3 after a long battle with ALS, a cruel disease that Judy managed well for many years. Pickle and Joan Haskell Vicinus ’51 phs and their brother, Rob Haskell ’62 hgs , will attend Judy’s memorial service in New York City in early December. A New York Times obituary cited her music studies at Vassar and highlighted her membership in the Cecilia Chorus in New York and on the boards of numerous arts organizations, including the Metropolitan Opera Guild and the Venice Music Festival. Her design sense was manifested in her very successful retail business, AD*HOC. Judy is survived by her son, Rush Haskell Kress. Pickle writes that she herself is perhaps busier at RiverWoods Exeter than she wants to be, taking advantage of exercise classes, book group, garden club, etc., and is a member of the Resident Council. She was traveling to Tennessee to spend Thanksgiving with her two daughters and their families. Judy Bassin Peknik says she has returned to painting after a pandemic pause, as she enjoys exhibiting her work. She is taking acting lessons at a local theater group in New Canaan, Connecticut, which she finds challenging and fun. The secret source of her energy is swimming every day! Judy Buck Moore and I compare gardening notes—the Connecticut climate giving her a definite edge over my short Maine growing season. Her next birding expedition will be to Michigan’s Lower Peninsula and Ohio and vicinity in search of various warblers. I ( Lucie Giegengack Teegarden ) continue to have some editing work, which ensures I don’t forget everything Miss Church taught us so effectively. Also keeping up, of course, with family and the doings of nine grand- children ages 23 to 17. We had a wonderful family reunion in mid-September to honor the memory of my brother “Bobby”— Robert Giegengack, Yale 1960 and Ph.D.
LEFT: Class of ’56 HGS alumni and their spouses in August 2022: Dick and Katte Walton, Nancy and Owen Cylke, Molly Hart, Steve, Bobby, and Mike Griffin.
1968—who died in June after a brief illness. I was grateful to be able to attend his memorial service in June in Winston- Salem, North Carolina. The September memorial turned out to be a gathering of some 75 relatives and friends for a truly wonderful celebration of his life. 1956 HGS Stephen Raffel raffel@post.harvard.edu It is sad news that our classmate Brian Geenty passed away. His son, Gregg, informed us of that recently, although Brian evidently died in 2021. Our condo- lences go out to his family. Peter Knudsen writes that after 54 years of living on the thigh of the Sleeping Giant, “we moved to a small home at 3700A Durham Road, Guilford, Connecticut. Now we see Lake Quonnipaug out of our front windows.” Richard Levine has a new email address: richard.levine18@gmail.com. His new mailing address is 45 Jefferson Road 1-3, Branford, Connecticut 06405. He was busy writing and teaching courses for real estate and insurance people until March 13, 2020, when classes were shut down due to COVID. The classes moved online. He notes that being healthy and vigorous at this age requires daily exercise. His wife is in assisted living and his daughter is in San Francisco, California, so he was alone in his house of 48 years. He downsized into a condo. Dick Walton experienced Ian, the hurricane that hit Florida. Warned by a local weatherman, he and his wife took a three-hour trip to the east coast of Florida. He says, “We stayed on the east coast three or four days before returning to our house on the west coast. We were very lucky. If water in the street had risen about a foot higher, we would have had water damage
to the first floor of the house.” Our primary means of contact is through email. If you do not get occasional reminders, please email your address to raffel@post.harvard. edu so I can add you to the list. 1956 DAY AND PHS Alumnae interested in serving as correspondents for the Class of 1956 DAY or PHS may contact Donna Vinci at classnotes@hopkins.edu.
1957 HGS Alan Cadan alancadan@mac.com
Allan Chasnoff : “I was wondering how many of my classmates play NFL Fantasy Football. This year, I am getting great pleasure co-managing a fantasy team with my grandson Jake. It has become a great bonding experience, and I recommend it to any other sports nuts around.” Dave Opton (responding to Chasnoff): “Allan, my eldest son, is into it big time, but I gave up on fantasy as I ended up starting a guy who had been on IR [injured reserve] for six weeks. Since then, we have bonded with our rivalry in my company’s football pool. Neither of us cares about how we did on a given Sunday as long as we beat the other. What adds to the fun is that my son’s wife is in the pool as well as my son-in-law. Great stuff.” Peter Hart : “It’s been an interesting fall. All the family, minus those in college, were here for Carole’s 80th on September 21. They departed September 25 and Ian, Florida hurricane of the century, arrived September 27. We came through fine, but the devastation to the area was indescribable. Last night, DeSantis took Florida by storm, and we are currently waiting for Nicole, a mere tropical
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