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home — no matter how foreign — and fighting for it with all you’ve got. Not only did Smith love the Spitfire aircraft, his true gift was how he lived his life: fiercely determined and passionate, a real spitfire.”
on the water, at the beach, and trying to catch a slow moving ‘Carolina Girl’ to enjoy beach music with!”
All profits for the book sales go to the Supermarine Spitfire Historical Society in London.
Knox Hubard caught up on the golf course with Chip Vaughan, Pat Branch and Tyler Harris and had a nice conversation with Kirk Materne, who still hangs out in sunny Florida.
1950s 1959 Jack Williams celebrated a milestone birthday this year, surrounded by loved ones, including son Lang ‘89, who graduated from St. Christopher’s 30 years to the day after his dad.
Parke Smith died in 2013 at age 93, but his remarkable story as a pilot in the British Royal Air Force during World War II is now finding a new audience. In his honor, his children have revived a memoir that he wrote in the 1990s, added stories that Smith had left out of the earlier version, as well as photos, and published it anew as “Spitfire: An American WWII Fighter Pilot in the RAF.” Jack Williams ’59 celebrates his 80th birthday with family.
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1967 Dick Carrington writes: “Back in the pre-COVID era, I entered a new age group for national squash competitions. Most of my body was over 70 years old, but I had a prosthetic hip replacement as well as an artificial knee which were relatively new. Returning to competition, I wasn’t sure what to expect from my opponents. I knew I had lost a step when I played with the young guys at my club, but playing people my own age could be a different story — and it was. I traveled to New York and won the Eastern States Squash Championships in the 70-75 division and defeated the current year’s national champion in the process. In conclusion, after a certain age, prosthetics work better than the natural joints of my opponents. The advances of medical science made me feel like the Bo Jackson of 70-year-olds.”
1964 Twins Jim and Preston Smith ’72 hold a painting featuring a Spitfire similar to the one their father flew.
Smith flew 129 missions in North Africa and Italy and over the North Sea. Amazon’s description of the book: “Amazingly, blessedly, he made it home, unlike so many of his friends and comrades. It is to them he dedicated his writing. Smith’s war stories are only the half of it. Smith is skilled at conveying the human connection and camaraderie that forms in war’s trenches and skies. He has a way of revealing enduring universal truths through anecdotes made even more humorous from his perspective as a total outsider. Ultimately, Smith’s is a story about finding 48 | StC Magazine
CLASS SCRIBES Thomas “Bumby” Cary Gresham ‘64 fenwayfan1952@hotmail.com Harry “Le” Leland Frazier Jr. ‘64 lighthorsesh@verizon.net Coley Wortham was honored with the Enduring Philanthropic Partner Award at the virtual National Philanthropy Day 2020 event, which took place Nov. 19. He was recognized for his work with the Children’s Hospital Foundation. George Scott just moved to Beaufort, North Carolina, which he describes as “the nicest seaside town on the whole East Coast.” He’s working in the boat business and emailed that he plans “to spend time
Dick Carrington ‘67 (right) celebrates a squash victory against his opponent Teft Smith.
Harry Harris was elected president of the Kiwanis Club of Richmond for 2020–2021. The 145-member club, which is part of Kiwanis International, serves the metropolitan area by contributing the time and talents of the club membership and financial resources to improve the lives of children in Richmond.
