family that includes four thriving grandsons and find a lot for which to be grateful. My thankfulness includes Hopkins and the lasting friendships that we are sharing right here in these writings.” Bill Ablondi : “ Bill Sarris sent something out about not letting the old man in. I’ve really thought a lot about that as it’s a mental attitude. Realtors are staging our house to suit Millennials? This is a new experience for us and one we hope passes quickly.” 1964 DPH Mary Stevens Rider gringastevens@gmail.com 2022 marked 10 years since Becky Field started her photography project documenting cultural diversity in New Hampshire. In October, Becky had six concurrent photography exhibits and gave several talks in southwestern New Hampshire. Recently, she received a grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts for a large exhibit of her photographs of an African man held under house arrest and tracked with an ankle monitor since 2018 for the only offense of asking for asylum. I want to remind everyone of Becky’s books, Different Roots , Common Dreams: New Hampshire’s Cultural Diversity and Finding Home: Portraits and Memories of Immigrants . In January, Becky acquired a very lively and totally lovable Havanese puppy. Tandy Beal writes, “I married Jon Scoville, whom I met when I was a junior at DPHS, thanks to my dear pal of 27 years, Laura Stein , and nine months later, we got married… We are now in our 59th year of celebrating life, laughter, and art together. No kids—and lucky them! Jon is a composer, and we have worked on zillions of projects together, including HereAfterHere: A Self-Guided Tour of Eternity —a multimedia extravaganza about what people think happens after we die. With benefits for Hospice, Noetic Sciences, and others. (tandybeal.com) For 30-plus years I have been lucky to tour with Bobby McFerrin, directing his large shows. Directed Moscow Circus in Japan and Pickle Family Circus for 10 years. The pandemic has increased our work to bring art into the schools as well as The Kindness Project—An Uncompetition Competition . We are still
touring a wild circus, dance and song version of The Nutcracker with singers I met with McFerrin, SoVoSo, who sing the Tchaikovsky live. A life full of adventure and obstacles and miracles.” In reference to her years at DPH, she goes on to say, “DPH gave me a great education… I graduated at 16 and thought I would take a year out from college, which turned into the rest of my life. I saw the Nikolais Dance Company because our DPH dance group, led by Mrs. Ziff, took us to New York City to see it. We went to study with Alwin Nikolais and joined his company, which took me around the world a few times and gave me a great education about art and people… I never felt the lack of a university education, since the training in how to think was so well focused at DPH. I spent years of teaching at universities and was in good stead by the love of reading and gifts like Miss MacNamee’s insistence on Latin as a vocabulary builder; Miss Church’s comment, ‘What would it be like to feel so deeply that you could feel the grass growing’; Mrs. Tate’s assignment to write on ‘Childhood shows the man as morning shows the day’; the shame of getting a D in Miss Booram’s geometry—my first and only—that led me to the second date with Jon Scoville… A European History teacher who shared an ideal that I never forgot: She took me to tea and told me she was about to get married and they wanted to make sure their love could spread beyond themselves and could support others— an ideal that has not left me. I wish I remembered her name. And a last image of DPH learning: Miss Anthony gave us two assignments that were life changing: One was to write an essay about whether we believed in God or not, then prove it! The other was to sit on a plot of land one hour each week for the year and write about it each week… Our hands shot up to ask if we had to use the Latin names, etc. Her answer? ‘Just watch.’ Twenty years later, I realized she was teaching us to observe, and well, to meditate, without calling it that. I wrote a thank you to her and found it arrived a few days after she died. Miracles and obstacles…” In early November, my sister, Lucy Stevens Rutherford ’60 phs , Barbara Stratton , and I enjoyed coffee at The Essex Coffee and Tea Company in Essex, Connecticut. Barbara and I sat next
to each other in Assembly, and now 58 years later, we were sitting together sharing bits of past and present over coffee. Barbara is enjoying Essex and her time at the Goodspeed Opera House. That’s all for now. Be well, Mary. 1965 HGS
Hopkins School wishes to thank Tom Delaney for his many years of excellent service as the Class of 1965 HGS
Correspondent, and to welcome John Cherniavsky as the new correspondent for the class, jcherniavsky@gmail.com. From John Cherniavsky to the Class of ’65: “Dear classmates, I have volunteered to take over from Tom Delaney as the 1965 Hopkins Grammar School class correspondent. If you have not been receiving emails from Tom or Hopkins School, send me an updated email address and I will inform Donna Vinci (the alumni representative), who will update her records. Also, John Mordes is arranging a Zoom reunion on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, at 7 p.m. If you did not receive his holiday email, then you won’t get the Zoom link for the Zoom reunion, so if you wish to participate, send John your email at john.mordes@umassmed.edu. I will be asking for alumni news, but feel free to email me with any news if you have any at any time (without my asking).” 1965 DPH
Alumnae interested in serving as correspondents for the Class of 1965 DPH may contact Donna Vinci at classnotes@hopkins.edu. 1966 HGS Charlie McClure cnmjr132@gmail.com Who said you needed to live in the
New Haven area, or even this country, to see classmates? Peter McLaughlin and his wife saw Mike Piccolo in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Next thing we know someone will look up Bill Walik in Paris this Christmas. Bill and Kathy will be spending December in Paris after spending the summer on their river barge in France. By the way, he has invited any
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