Fall 2021
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class notes 1950s
highly recommends Amtrak! Paul Walsh ’67
the majors. The first year William was in contact
and his best friend, Clyde Thomas, have been
with Coach Dorwaldt, the AA team traveled
Deborah Acton Tollefson ’59 reports that
shark fishing in Gulf of Maine for many years. The
to Baltimore for a week in the pre-season, and
the fall of 2020 brought a big change for her
friends take an annual Walsh-Thomas fishing trip
he arranged some games with the very top
when she sold her southern Arizona property
that includes their brothers, sons, and grandsons.
teams, but also one with St. Paul’s fledging lot.
and moved to Florida to be near her daughter,
They have fished from Panama to Alaska on the
According to William, that was a mistake. This
Laura. It was a tremendous undertaking to
West Coast and from the Panama to Maine on
was the year that the AA team went on to the
dismantle 60 years of accumulation in a
the East Coast and have also fished Northern
state championship and while Pete was trying
large house and outbuildings. Laura and her
Canada (Miminiska, Ontario, Canada). Before the
to be kind, the score was 29-1 and was called
husband, Britt, decided in June 2020 to build
pandemic hit, they made these annual trips for
early because of injury. William said he thought
a home in Bellacina by Casey Key in Nokomis
22 years straight before the Pandemic hit and
about reverting to the old submarine pitch in the
and that started Deborah thinking. By the end
they are now hoping to restart soon. On those
recent game, but out of regard for his well-being,
of September, she found a house to purchase
trips, the largest shark Paul and Clyde have ever
and others’, he stuck with a sort of overhand
about 3/4 miles away on the same street as
seen was a 24-plus-foot great white. Paul says,
pitch. He said, it had decent speed but he failed
her daughter’s house. In December they all
“We know how big it was because we were in
to remember that the height of the mound
moved in and stayed until mid-March when their
a 23-foot Grady. We were about five miles off
influences the trajectory and length of the pitch.
new home was completed. After 60 years of
when we saw two fins. We thought it was a mom
One bounce and through the catcher (never
Arizona’s hot and dry heat Deborah says she
whale with a pup. When we went over to explore,
happen to you, Rick!). “I thought you guys would
is getting accustomed to Florida’s hot and wet
we discovered that the two fins were the dorsal
appreciate this dangerous moment as I went to
heat, but she’s been told, “Just wait ‘til June!”
and tail fins of a huge great white. Actually, we
the mound after some 50+ years,” William said.
1960s
initially didn’t know if it was a great white or a basking shark. Clyde had the brilliant idea for me to drive the boat about 50 yards ahead and to
John B. Hintermaier ’60 shares what he
the side of the shark and then turn off the engine
calls his “temporary sorrow and everlasting
to see what the shark would do. I did what Clyde
joy” at the passing of his wife, Jane Mary Kissel
suggested. As the shark became even with us, he
Hintermaier, on September 11, 2020. The couple
turned sharply towards us, covering the 50 yards
Shared almost 30 years of marriage beginning
in just a couple of seconds. Clyde was yelling,
on December 15,1990. Jane Mary helped
“Turn on the engine!!!” But there was no time.
raise John’s three young sons who after the
As the shark was about to broadside the boat,
death of his first wife, Marilyn, in May 1987.
perhaps five feet from the side of the boat, he
Jane graduated from Seton High School in
dove underneath and surfaced on the other side
Cincinnati, Ohio and received her LPN from
of the boat in a span of a second or two. Clyde
Jackson Community College with honors in
and I concluded that it was no basking shark and
1996. She received her associate’s degree liberal
that this great white would have sunk the boat if
arts with honors from Washtenaw Community
he had rammed it.” The largest shark the friends
Mark Macomber ’67 shared these two
College and enrolled in the English literature
have ever caught was a 17-foot thresher, which
photos with us. The top photo shows his younger
honors program at Eastern Michigan University
took two and a half hours to bring alongside
son flying through a canyon in Nevada at 560
with advanced placement in the Master of
the boat. The largest shark they have landed
knots with the canyon wall behind him. He flew
Arts program. Prior to her marriage, Jane was
(brought into the cockpit of the boat) was a
100 combat missions in the desert and earned
employed by the University of Michigan’s School
near-record 13-foot blue shark. Paul sends this
five Air Medals. He is now teaching the F-15E
of Engineering and also worked as a paralegal
message to other alumni: “If anyone wants to
Strike Eagle. Mark’s older son is head of robotic
at the law firm of Foster, Meade, Ramsey and
go shark fishing on the Gulf of Maine, give me
surgery at Abbott Northwestern in Minneapolis.
Magill. She was the office manager for Chester
a holler!”
The bottom photo is the jet Mark recently checked out in, as he begins his 51st year in
Engineers and worked in the University of Michigan’s Graduate School Alumni Relations
William Durden ’67 was back on the mound
aviation. He says, “It goes without saying that
office. A memorial service will be held in the
recently after 50+ years. He shares that his first
they can teach an old dog new tricks.” Jeffrey
future when the extended family can gather
job was at the St. Paul’s Schools in Baltimore.
Levine ’67 reports that his new workbook,
to honor Jane. SMarilyn Propp ’65 says
Lacrosse was the only spring sport and the
“Consistent Profitable Growth Map,” has become
she and David Jones are very happy living in
school was a multi-time state champion; baseball
an Amazon Best Seller. The book helps business
Kenosha, Wisconsin where their house has two
was prohibited. William lobbied to change
owners exit their business rich and provides a
large studios and an etching press. Check out
that and became the school’s first coach. Fast
clear 5- to 19-year consistent profitable growth
their website at https://www.proppjonesstudio.
forward to a recent day when William threw
map. Jeff is proud to announce he has also been
com/. The couple recently took a sleeper room
out the first pitch to celebrate 40 successful
chosen to be part of the “13 Steps to Riches”
train to and from Indio, California (Coachella
years of baseball at the school, multiple state
book project. This the first collaborative book
Valley) to visit family for a month and Marilyn
championships, and some players going on to
project on Napoleon Hill’s steps to riches, a The Albany Academies magazine
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