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Dear OTM,

I enjoyed the Winter 2022 issue’s article on ’50 Years of Coeducation’ and want to provide additional information. In 1972-1973, a classmate Lynanne Blount ’75 and I went to the Headmaster, Mr. Brogan, to see if we could have sports other than mountaineering and modern dance. He said we had to check with the male students first. We sent a petition around and all were on board, so we established the first official girls’ team at SKS: softball. Art teacher Randy McGivern was our coach. We played in the spring of ’73 and ’74. Ms. McGivern taught us how to throw a ball “like a guy” and hit the ball. We played the Mount Saint Mary College softball team and got beaten badly because they fast-pitched. We did not, so they struck us out every time. As a side note, Ms. McGivern had a long-haired dachshund and Scott Cantor ’73 wrote NYYWC (New York Yankees World Champions) in her dog’s ear. She was not pleased. Next, we played field hockey coached by Mrs. Van der Woude in the fall of 1974. Karate was also offered in 1974 as a coed sport. A volleyball team was later formed and coached by Mr. Tannenbaum in the winter of 1975. I now live in Wilmington, North Carolina in the same neighborhood as Si Cantwell ’74. He was a columnist for the Star News (owned by the New York Times) and we had a conversation about an article he had written many years after SKS and were surprised to discover that we knew each other! Thanks for reviving these fond memories.

– Debby Davies French ’75

Correction: For his Class Note in OTM’s Winter 2022 issue, world traveler Greg Shea ’62 wrote about cruising on the Saint John River. Unfortunately, the river’s location was incorrectly identified as Nebraska. Mr. Shea was referring to the Saint John River in New Brunswick, Canada. In the absence of a digital image to illustrate his excursion on the Saint John, Mr. Shea sent OTM this photo which shows the intrepid Sheas at Ernest Shackleton’s grave on South Georgia Island: “It is customary to raise a toast to Shackleton here, so I have included a picture of Joan and me partaking of that tradition.”

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REUNION WEEKEND JUNE 9-11, 2023

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Sarah Fulton ’09

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