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= Celebrated reunion in June 2021
1950
1952
the pandemic to say, “Like many, I am a virtual prisoner in my D.C. apartment. My nine grandchildren live in California, Texas, Tennessee and Canada. My two greatgrandchildren live in Chattanooga. (Always reminds me of a WWII song.)”
1953
Ogden D. Miller, Jr. P’84 wrote during
1951
Alan D. Frese was “Looking forward to
June 11-13, 2021 (for Alumni Weekend)! Stay well!”
Crane Kirkbride’s wife, Fiona, wrote to us to
let us know that Crane has had Parkinson’s for 14 years. He is doing amazingly well, but it affects his voice and leaves him unable to communicate verbally for more than a few sentences. Ogden D. Miller, Jr.’s ’50 P’84 father was the headmaster at the time Crane attended the school. “Mr. Miller was a very warm and giving person who took Crane under his wing and at graduation awarded him the Headmaster’s Prize, which meant a great deal to Crane. Another memory from the school is a French teacher who heard him vocalizing and remarked, ‘You have a remarkable voice. You should be a singer.’ This was part of what led him to join the Yale Glee Club a few years later.” Fiona also shared that Crane has been involved in music for most of his life and was particularly active in the Glee Club and the J.E. Jesters Octet during his years at Yale. He has continued to sing throughout the years and is currently working on a CD that will be a compilation of his Irish, Italian, and sacred songs.
Retired U.S. Army Brigadier General Peter Lash sends his regards to his classmates, “Hang in there guys! See you at the next reunion!”
Anthony Delude said, “Wonderful article on
David Hoadley ’51, my brother-in-law!” (See
Bulletin, fall-winter 2020, page 60).
1955
G. Bruce Porter wrote, “Since I retired from
the Columbia Journalism School, my wife, Sara, a painter, and I have been living on an old farm outside Hudson, New York, and this is a special year for us. The most important thing we ever did together was to adopt our daughter, Hana, from China back in 1992. She was in the first wave to come to America. She had been
found at age two weeks beneath a pile of rags in a department store stairwell in Wuhan. The guessing is she’d been left there by her mother, hoping she’d be found and given a new lease on life, as it were. This May, Hana will graduate with a master’s from the Columbia School of Social Work, hoping to work in the field of international refugees. She’s married to Gabriel Gavidia, a project manager for a Manhattan construction company, and a political refugee from Venezuela. They’re expecting soon to begin raising children — one or two, and Hana sometimes says three. Sara and I are so thankful to be part of the new population amalgamation, prospective grandparents of ‘citizens of the world.’”
1956
Jerry LeVasseur’s daughter, Linda
LeVasseur, wrote a book about her father that came out in August 2020 called “Fitness, Fun and Friends: Stories from a Remarkable Life.”
Hana Porter, daughter of G. Bruce Porter ’55, with her husband Gabriel Gavidia
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