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to Uniroyal where he spent almost his entire career rising to the position of engineering manager of the international division. Manny spent time in Mexico, France, Scotland, Uruguay, Australia, and more. His responsibility was to go to a foreign country and build a tire manufacturing factory from scratch, debug it, and get it up to speed. All of his story is told in his fascinating autobiography, Memories of a Journey Through Time. If you would like a copy—no charge—let me know (you can email me at the above address). The story begins in 17th-Century Spain and follows Manny’s life through Castro’s rise to power in Cuba to Manny’s arrival in the U.S. and beyond. While he had only two years at Andover, there is no more faithful alumnus. Manny has attended many reunions.
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1938 ABBOT & PHILLIPS Dana Lynch ’68 P.O. Box 370539 Montara, CA 94037-0539 650-728-8238 Dana.h.lynch@gmail.com
1940 ABBOT Nadene Nichols Lane 125 Coolidge Ave., No. 610 Watertown, MA 02472 617-924-1981
PHILLIPS Blake Flint The Pines of Sarasota 1501 N. Orange Ave., No. 1924 Sarasota, FL 34236 941-365-0250 blake.flint@comcast.net
Jack Riege is having some serious health problems, but is still playing bridge regularly. His loving wife Sali is seeing he gets the best of care. They are at home in Bloomfield, CT. Manny Cadenas attended Andover from 1936 to 1938 in the Class of 1940. He came from Cuba; his father admired the United States and wanted Manny to speak English and become educated in the U.S. While the Cadenas family fortune had waxed and waned, Manny did not return to Andover after his lower middle year as it was a financial strain for the family. He continued his studies in Havana. With some sacrifice, Manny entered M.I.T. and graduated several years later with an engineering degree. He went from M.I.T. directly
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Ann Taylor Debevoise Pinnacle Farm 222 Daniel Cox Road Woodstock, VT 05091-9723 802-457-1186 Ann.T.Debevoise@valley.net
PHILLIPS Robert K. Reynolds 185 Southern Blvd. Danbury, CT 06810 203-743-0174 rreynolds06@snet.net
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75th REUNION
PHILLIPS Richard L. Ordeman 619 Oakwood Ave. Dayton, OH 45419 937-299-9652 mbo510@aol.com
I’m writing these notes a week after Hurricane Harvey visited Texas and Irma is bearing down on Florida. Checking classmates in these areas, I was able to reach Ross Baker. Dorothy, his wife of 64 years, answered the phone in a cheery voice. Ross said the water had come up within two feet of their house, but there was no damage, although they were without power for five days. He said he is in good health but is almost totally blind. Other than expressing unhappiness with the performance of the University of Texas football team in their opening game, all seems well with Ross and Dorothy. I noted our 75th Reunion will be coming up next year. Ross said he had taken his whole family to our 50th. Looking at Dorothy and the children, he remembered that Dick Duden said, “she’s the youngest looking mama at the reunion!” I was unable to reach Buster Vandervoort, another
Houston classmate, but Ross told me he had been in touch with him recently, noting he has a severe hearing problem. Dick Harshman, in Naples, FL before the hurricane struck, felt there was no place safer than staying at home in his well-protected building with shutters up on two porches. As for others in Naples: Phil Drake, who winters there, was still up North; Dick Baird has moved back to Connecticut; and I wasn’t able to reach Bill Chipman. Forty miles north of Naples in Ft. Myers, Arthur Sherrill, who lives near the water in the Shell Point retirement facility, was in good spirits. People in his building were to be picked up and moved to Shell Point’s hurricane shelter. Dave Thurber, who winters on nearby Sanibel Island, was still in New Hampshire. Good news so far! Noting on an updated class address list that Jack Morris had moved from Maine to Dubuque, IA, I contacted him. Jack told me his wife had died about three years ago. His health had been declining and about a year ago, when he had an offer on his home of 30 years, he made the move to Dubuque to be near his two daughters and five grandchildren who all live in the area. “I’m very happy,” Jack said. I’m pleased to pass along some personal good news about the Ordemans. In June, Martha and I (Richard Ordeman) celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary. Our children organized a wonderful weekend culminating with 35 relatives plus friends gathering for a festive dinner. We’re pleased as to how our children and their families have grown up supporting us and each other. Perhaps the bartender, who had been listening to the proceedings, best summed up that feeling when at the end of the evening he said to one of our children, “I wish I belonged to that family.” I’m sure some of you remember Phil Drake’s older brother, Joe ’41, who was two years ahead of us. Phil, Joe’s son Bill ’73, and his son, Teddy ’11 decided in late May to visit the campus and were able to make an appointment to see Head of School John Palfrey. Here are excerpts from Phil’s report on their visit. It reflects what many of us—who would like to see the campus again—might do and see if we were to return: “We left Greenwich at 7 o’clock promptly and arrived at Andover just shy of 10 o’clock. We were walking towards George Washington Hall when a car passed us. It was John Palfrey. Once he parked his car, I called out his name and he turned and joined us. He opened his office and the four of us sat down in easy chairs. We talked for about a half hour and then walked to the library. We poked around the library and were told that we could go upstairs (where I had never been) to a special room devoted to gifts, pictures, trophies, etc. After a half hour we walked over to The Commons and had a nice luncheon. Teddy introduced us to a friend, Tom Hodgson, a faculty member who was retiring after 40 years at Andover. He walked us over to the Sykes Wellness Center, which was very impressive. From there we could see the athletic fields. A great deal of action was taking place from construction. The baseball diamond had been moved and eight squash courts and other athletic buildings were being built.
Then we drove around the campus to various spots we were interested in seeing—including Will Hall, where Bill and I spent our first year at Andover. We drove downtown and then back to the Addison Art Gallery. We went through three levels at the Addison and one was completely filled with works by Frank Stella ’54. After that we wandered down to Cochran Chapel and found someone to take our picture. There we met Dr. Mary Kantor who has been the chaplain of the Catholic community for eight years. Bill and I were clearly taken by the work of Mary and what she is doing for the Catholic community at Andover. After that we walked back to the chapel’s entrance where 60 to 80 students were about to start a concert. We listened for a while and then left to head home. It was a long day, but one we will remember for a long time to come— proud to be an Andover grad!” After these notes were finished, I received the sad news that Bob Coulson had died of a stroke Sept. 9. Vic Curtin passed away on March 9, 2016, and Charles “Peter” Pinkham passed away in September 2016. Our class extends sympathy to their families and friends. I’ll have a lot more about Bob, Vic, and Charles in my next issue.
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own words. “As the days dwindle down and there are fewer and fewer of us still functioning, it feels good to be one of them,” Harry says. “I still do my own cooking and am coping with being a widower living in a retirement village, content with a simple existence. Instead of traveling I amuse myself by writing and rewriting the story of my life, an overly long book. It is no more entrancing than I am, but I find it occupies my time and refreshes many memories. Living things again is not as great as living them initially, but it is better than missing putts.” (Take that if there are any golfers still among you). As for myself (Angus Deming), as of this writing I am just back from a wonderful two weeks in Paris. My wife Madlyn and I made this same trip at exactly the same time a year ago, only on that occasion I took a nose dive fall just two hours after we’d arrived, resulting in multiple rib fractures. This time I managed to stay out of trouble and to savor the infinite pleasures of this city—more beautiful and magical than ever, it seemed. Some things had changed since our previous visit: Parisians, who had previously appeared indifferent to the march of technology, have suddenly become as glued to their cell phones as New Yorkers are. On the other hand, bicycle riders, of whom there are many in the city’s streets, continue to resolutely shun anything resembling a crash helmet. A sense of style and
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As always, some of these notes may seem a bit dated by the time Andover magazine goes to press, customarily in a different season of the year. But never mind. It’s always good to hear from our classmates no matter when or where. And in that spirit we begin with a brief entry from Mort Dunn, one of our most consistent and reliable contributors. When I last heard from Mort he had recently returned home from a couple of weeks on Cape Cod, visiting his two sons in Harwich near the top of the Cape. “It was good to get away, and to enjoy dining on fresh fish,” he said. On a drive into the town of Chatham one day Mort happened upon the Marconi Museum, named after the inventor of the trans-Atlantic cable. “I’d been going to the Cape for years and never even knew it existed,” Mort confessed. Somehow, the museum reminded Mort that his late wife Sylvia’s brother had worked in Britain during World War II with the group that broke the German Enigma code. A fascinating story in itself, though Mort didn’t reveal much more than that. Meanwhile, our class poet laureate continues to write poetry and to keep up with his reading. As for doctors, Mort has this to say: “I keep fooling them.” Thumbs up to that. Then we come to Harry Hall, who is still at work writing his memoirs, and whom we find in a contemplative mood. I’ll let him speak in his
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