Perspective, The Magazine for University Liggett School, Spring 2013

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From the Head of School

Adapting to technology The other day I heard a commentator on

hundreds, maybe thousands of sites

In the school we

television note that this year marks the

that provide data and information on

are dealing with

40th anniversary year for the cell phone.

virtually any topic.

The pictures accompanying the story

showed a man walking with something

explore the ways in which this revolution

that looked like a walkie-talkie of ancient

has impacted us. We meet the Hariks,

days. It mentioned that the cell phone

members of a remarkable family who

weighed a lot and cost a fortune.

have been significant players in this

revolution. We note the ways in which

the possibilities and problems of a continuous stream of information and data.

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I remember the first time I ever tried

In this issue of Perspective, we

to organize a meeting on the Internet

technology is changing our teaching and

when I was the Dean of Hobart College.

learning environment, we see classes

It was a nightmare adventure that ended

Skyping with students around the world,

with all the parties involved throwing

and we see the research-based projects

up their collective hands and agreeing

students are doing at every level of the

to meet the next day for lunch at a

school. And we learn about initiatives

local restaurant.

and programs that we will be adding

and developing.

The Age of Information has been

the appropriate designation for this

decade. We are surfeited with data and

up with the pace of change. What

information from a continuous stream of

the Curriculum for Understanding

sources. When I open my e-mail every

envisions is moving information

day I find a dizzying array of contacts,

to understanding. It is a singularly

most of whom I have never asked to

appropriate and imperative task. Rather

contact me. I no longer control even that

than despairing of this tidal wave

part of my life.

of information, we are engaging our

students and our school into acquiring

In the school we are dealing with

It is virtually impossible to keep

the possibilities and problems of a

the tools to manage, assess and evaluate

continuous stream of information and

data that allows us to learn more surely

data. We have to learn to manage it. We

and advance more confidently into the

need to develop methods of assessing

information universe.

what we see or read. Wikipedia is a

source for just about anything you

Liggett is in the front line of this

want to know. But it is not “secure�

adventure.

information, not vetted or adjudicated

Joseph P. Healey

for accuracy. And it is only one of

Head of School

T he M a g a z i n e fo r Un i v e rs i ty L igget t School

It is great and exciting work and

Perspective The M a ga zine fo r Univ er sit y L igget t Sc h ool Spr ing 2 0 1 3

The Technology Issue Contents

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How one family is helping change the world

Teacher Perspective Technology meets art

The Challenge of Robotics

From the Department of Advancement

Parent Perspective The Reilly Family

Student Perspective Alec Josaitis

Cool Jobs Justin Mazza ‘10

From the Department of Alumni Relations Class Notes Memories of GPUS, In Memoriam, Alumni Events and more

Cover art by Middle School student Alec Azar.

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Connecting our The Harik family World is plugged in.

Four children, all Liggett graduates.

The three profiled here are working at technology companies that are changing the way we live.

By Ron Bernas

Georges Harik,’86

Georges, 41, grew up mostly in

he said. “I think often motivation plays

Dubai and spent summers in Grosse

an important role in getting someone

Pointe visiting family. He saw a TRS-80

interested in a field, and something

computer during one of those visits and

surprisingly simple — like playing video

You can’t read anything about Georges

was intrigued. “I mostly wanted to play

games — can be a great motivator.”

Harik without the writer identifying him

games on them, and at the time you had

as “one of Google’s first 10 employees.”

to go to the arcade to play games,” he said.

from Liggett and went to the University

That says a lot about what kind of person

of Michigan where he earned bachelor’s

he is: He’s smart enough to be hired by a

credits his father with having the

and master’s degrees in computer

company that changed – and continues to

foresight to get him an Apple 2+ on

engineering and a doctorate

change – the world, and he has the vision

which he played the few computer

in computer science. His

to know that having an opportunity to

games available on it.

college focus was on

work at a company like that is the chance

programs that evolve to

of a lifetime.

programming my own games to play,”

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He asked for a computer and he

“I got bored and I started

He graduated early — at age 14 —

solve problems.

At Google, Georges was put at the

in a natural language such as English.”

head of a team whose initiatives included

big influence in my decision to pursue

Gmail, Google Talk, Google Video, Picasa

for ways to help.

computer science,” he said. “It was eye-

Ralph Harik ’97

opening to see how you could have a

and more. His legacy at Google includes developing two mammoth machinelearning programs used in many systems, including Gmail’s spam filter. He was also instrumental in hiring the company’s first few hundred engineers, thereby

all their instant messaging

world-changing company.

platforms into one, easy-to-

Georges left in 2007, but is an

use service.

advisor to Google Ventures, an investor

and advisor to startups in the area of

But Palo Alto, Calif.-based

imo, founded by Ralph Harik with help

Internet applications, machine learning,

from brother Georges, wants to take it a

advertising and technology. His criteria

step further. Instead of creating a service

for investing in something new? It has to

that only allows you to easily talk to

change the world.

There are a lot of services that allow their users to collect

creating the culture and workforce of a

And Georges will be there, looking

people you already know, imo wants

“I look for things many people will

to help users meet people with similar

use – hopefully everyone – and that will

interests in the hopes that they come

make a big difference in their lives,” he

together for commerce, collaboration or

said. “I would say a few things I have been involved with have had that chance, including Gmail and Google Docs, which

friendship in the process. It’s an exciting new type of social media.

“The environment at MIT had a pretty

big impact on people’s lives if you know how to program.”

He also credits Georges: “I spent

a few summers while in college here in Silicon Valley. I took a few more programming classes at Stanford University and spent a lot of time with Georges. At the time, he was starting work at Google. It was pretty exciting to see the company grow and change how information was consumed and distributed.”

After college, he moved to California

where he worked at Oracle for a year. He left to start the company that eventually became imo.

Ralph is a big advocate of bringing

computer coding classes into high schools. “I think it’s one of the few fields where after a few years of education, you

I was the product director of, the Google

can positively impact millions of lives

Ad systems, which I alternately wrote

around the world.”

the business plan for and designed, and

Android, where I purchased the original

hardware like Google’s driverless car and

company developing the technology for

wearable computers in everyday items

Google. In each of these cases, it was a bit

like glasses and watches. “The glasses have

easy to see that with the ability of Google

the potential of really changing how we

to distribute technology, these were going

He says he’s also excited about new

live because they can both collect data that

to be fairly important projects.”

As of late last year, Forbes Magazine

So what’s next?

reported that more than 700,000 people

relevant information on what we see.”

“Right now, I’m excited about

use imo (pronounced EYE-moe) a

the field of machine learning, where

day, sending more than 50 million

the stuff of science fiction, but every

computers can be made to learn to

messages daily.

innovation brings it closer to us, he says.

analyze patterns in data,” he said. “I

think people are about to create machines

master’s degrees in computer science from

that can see and identify objects, move

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He’s

around in the world and interact with us

glad he made that choice.

Ralph, 33, earned a bachelor’s and

has never been collected before and overlay That augmented reality sounds like

Ralph is married to Anna, an architect,

and they have an 8-month-old daughter.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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Nadine Harik ’99

“One day when I was bored, Georges

“Having a supportive environment

decided to entertain me by teaching me

definitely helps,” she says. “I have been

how to code,” she said. “We sat down

very lucky to be surrounded by people

together and created a simple game all

that encouraged me.” The Hariks’

“You don’t look like

in one afternoon. I really enjoyed that

parents did not define “boy” activities

an engineer.”

day, particularly the rush of building

or “girl” academic subjects, she said. “If

something and being able to use it

I was interested in something, then they

Harik has heard a lot. But

immediately.”

encouraged it.”

usually it’s from people she barely knows

so it doesn’t really matter because she’s

she programed until she was at

girls interested in going into the male-

happy to be in the field she’s in.

Stanford University working on her

dominated field of computer science.

undergraduate degree. But her memories

And she urges them – and anyone in the

were times that people told me not to

of that afternoon led her to take

field – to start early.

major in computer science because I

computer science classes. She majored

That’s something Nadine

“In high school and college there

She says that was the last time

And she says the same thing to

“I think computer science is a unique

was too social, liked kids too much and

field,” she said. “There aren’t that

other various reasons,” she says. But in

many fields where you can learn a lot

her college classes and in the field, the

of what you need to know before going

31-year-old said she has always been

to college. If you like playing computer

measured solely on the quality of her

games, then try building one. If you like

work. “I think my confidence stemmed

certain websites, then try replicating

from having a supportive core of people

them or making one of your own. These

around me. Those who really knew me,

in computer science and minored in

are things that I wish I had done more of

the people who I worked with day in and

economics, then earned a master’s degree

before going to college.”

day out, and the people who I respected

in computer science from the University

didn’t treat me differently because I was

of Michigan. She started her career with

one of the few females in my field.”

an internship at Microsoft, then got her

first full-time job at Google. Now she is

The youngest of the four Harik

children, Nadine says her interest in

a programmer at Pinterest, the wildly

computer science started early.

popular idea-sharing website.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet.

The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web

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Teacher Perspective

Art from Technology?

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By Jim Pujdowski, Instructor of Art In May of 2012, all the Middle School teachers were given iPads and asked to incorporate a lesson plan or two that would allow students to use their iPads.

I found a wonderful app called Art Rage and I began learning to use it.

I was very apprehensive about

creating art on an iPad because I am a traditionalist, but after playing around with this app for only an hour I could see major possibilities for using this technology and I said to myself, “The students are going to love this.” In a matter of a couple weeks I created a half-dozen works of Art Rage — art that I’m very proud of.

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Art work created on an iPad with the software application Art Rage by Middle School students: (1) Alyssa Quint, (2) Abby Alcott, (3) Julian Palace, (4) Jada Frost

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When school began in the fall, the

students were busy using this new-age technology. I gave one half-period demo about Art Rage to my sixth-grade class and they were off to the races. First, the students were asked to find a flower they might like and create their own using the app. I printed their flowers and we used them to make clay flowers for a tabletop mosaic that was sold in the Liggett Knight auction in November.

For our second project I had the

students choose a photo of one of six Michigan lighthouses. They could

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then draw over every phase of their

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

lighthouse and take liberty with the texture of the lighthouse, the sky and surrounding features.

Albert Einstein, inventor

Both of these projects were a huge

success because the students gave it their all using the technology. This project made me realize dozens of applications this program has and I hope to continue to use it in the future.

In the process, another technology

myth was broken: You can teach an old dog new tricks. This dog is the proof!

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Art work created on an iPad with the software application Art Rage by Middle School students: (5) Markett Lott, (6) Grant Sachs, (7) Jade Siebert, (8) Adriana Agosta, (9) Nicole Rivera, (10) Danny Bernas, (11) Zach Elliot, (12) Steffi Roche, (13) William Higbie.

Below: Art work created by Jim Pujdowski with the software application Art Rage based on view from the main doors at Liggett.

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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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Liggett Life

Robotics the ultimate challenge

By Ron Bernas This article comes from Liggett Life, our

Each robot earns points based on how

everything only sort of mediocre.”

(almost) daily blog about life at Liggett.

high it climbs.”

It originally ran March 5, 2013. For more

nine are freshman and the other twelve

stories like this, please check out the blog at

figure out how to create a robot that

are divided evenly among the other three

blogs.uls.org/LiggettLife/

can accurately toss Frisbees and climb

grades — came up with a shooting arm

something. Still, Galea said the students

that seems to work and also is able to

Liggett’s robotics team.

and she feel this is the hardest challenge

pick discs up off the floor (something

It’s crunch week for Knight Vision, This weekend is the team’s first meet

So, basically, the kids have to

But the 21 students on the team —

in their three years of competition.

many of the robots at last weekend’s

of the season. Team coordinator Kim

competition couldn’t do) while creating a

Galea and her assistant Tiffany Meyer are

just work on the climbing mechanism,”

“We began with the idea that we’d

strong climbing robot.

feeling pretty good about it. Based on the results of another round of competition last week, they know their team’s robot is able to do things others could not do.

This year’s challenge is called

Ultimate Ascent and the rules, right from the FIRST Robotics website are as follows: “Two competing alliances (compete) on a flat, 27 x 54 foot field.

Each alliance consists of three robots, and they compete to score as many (Frisbeestyle) discs into their goals as they can during a two-minute and fifteen-second match. The higher the goal in which the disc is scored, the more points the alliance receives.The match begins with a fifteen-second Autonomous Period in which robots operate independently of driver inputs. Discs scored during

The robot in action.

this period are worth additional points.

Galea said. “We didn’t know how we

For the remainder of the match, drivers

would be able to create a shooter for

sponsors the robotics competition around

control robots and try to maximize

the discs, but the higher you climb, the

the world, announced the challenge on

their alliance score by scoring as many

more points you get. We focused on the

January 5. All participating teams got

goals as possible. The match ends with

climbing because we figured we’d do

a box of parts, but no instructions on

robots attempting to climb up pyramids

one thing really well and get as many

how to use them. That’s when the work

located near the middle of the field.

points as possible there instead of doing

began. Students gathered Mondays and

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But it took a lot of work. FIRST, which

Wednesdays after school for two hours,

to succeed,” Galea said. “That’s why

year, the team will participate in a third

on Fridays for 5 1/2 hours and for eight

they call it a ‘cooperatition’ — it’s a

competition at the end of spring break. They

hours on Saturdays.

competition, sure, but you often have to

can work on the robots between the meets

In addition to Galea and Meyer, they

cooperate with another team to do well.

to improve them and, they hope, make a

brought in parent Ron Jachim, who has

If a part on someone’s robot fails and we

mark at the state competition in April.

helped for three years and an outside

have an extra one we give them ours and

mentor who has worked with another

we know they would do the same.”

Update

school’s robotics team for years. Parents

Liggett’s robot participated in three

have sent in food and pop (“It’s amazing

Galea said. There is $16 million in

events and it was a mixed bag, but Galea

how much pop 20 kids can go through

scholarships to students who participate

says the team came a long way this year.

There’s also another possible payoff,

“It was our best robot ever,” Galea said,

“And there were other great things, too.”

The first meet, in Waterford, was very

rough, she said. Every robot must be inspected for things like proper wiring, using the proper gauge and type of wire, all in the interest of safety (no one wants a fire in the middle of a robot battle). But Liggett’s robot couldn’t get through this process. All the issues were fixed onsite, but the team only scored 4 points. The Center Line event went much better, several firsts being recorded – including the first time the team ever scored during the autonomous portion of the event and the first time they were selected by another team for an alliance in the first round. Still, getting to the state event Above: Caleb Sword, Tommy Fair and Shedath Chowdhury. Below: The team works out a problem.

required a cumulative point total they couldn’t reach because of the first

in a weekend,” Galea says.) to fuel the

in FIRST robotics. The only two

event’s showing.

marathon working sessions.

Liggett students who applied for the

scholarships received grants to pay for

FIRST Robotics is not about coming in

Galea said, the Stahl Groupe, the Wu

their education, Galea said.

first. It’s about the process.

Family and Becker Ventures have joined

Others have been very generous, too,

The first competition is Friday

Still, the team was energized, and

And with the season barely behind

the school in putting up $16,000 to fund the

and Saturday at Waterford Mott High

them, the process for next year has

building of the machine, which includes

School, with a meet at Center Line High

begun, as team members have already

many parts not in the original starter kit.

School the following weekend. This

made calls looking for mentors and

“It’s a lot of work,” Galea said, “But

the kids get so much out of it. In addition to the tech experience, they learn about

donors to help next year’s team surpass this year’s goals.

“The main concept of the meets is

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

that everybody wants everybody else

Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple

programming, wiring electrical boards, how motors work and even some of the business aspects of the group.” And they learn about teamwork.

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Department of Advancement

With technology, the world’s your classroom In just a few minutes

The sound of laughter drew me. I had

classrooms will now have the same

I learned about the

just left one meeting and was on my way

Smartboard technology the Lower and

to another, but I wanted to know what

Middle School classrooms have. In

was so entertaining to the large group

addition, we’re excited to announce

of high school students packed into the

the school will now have a digital arts

Upper School Commons.

studio designed to help students create

multimedia projects including video,

politics, the people and the culture of a country from a most

I opened the door and slipped in

enthusiastic group

the back and saw, on two enormous

audio, animation, 3D design and more.

of students.

television screens, students from Ghana

describe their daily lives, sing songs,

very blessed and that giving back to the

tell jokes and ask and answer questions

community is important,” said Kristine

from our students. In just a few minutes

Mestdagh, who runs the John A. and

I learned about the politics, the people

Marlene L. Boll Foundation. “My parents

and the culture of a country from a

have a great appreciation for what Head

most enthusiastic group of students. I

of School Dr. Healey’s vision is. They are

was transported and, judging from the

willing to do what they can to help make

reaction of both groups of students, so

that come to fruition. They really wanted

were they.

to make sure Liggett was on the cutting

edge of technology, because they will

Technology in the classroom means

“My parents feel they have been

so much more than simply providing

know how best to use it in the classroom.”

our students with state-of-the-art

computers and software. It is integrated

and students get the support and training

into every aspect of our curriculum.

they need to turn these technological

The videoconferencing system used to

marvels into educational tools. Much like

connect us with the school in Ghana is

they turned a business videoconferencing

just one example. It’s usually used by

system into a global classroom.

businesses, but when used by schools,

the world becomes the classroom.

Liggett and its students. It’s a way of

shaping lives that shape lives. As Kristine

Thanks to a generous gift by John

The school also ensures the teachers

The Boll gift doesn’t just benefit

and Marlene Boll, Liggett is ready to take

rightly says, “In the end, investing in

the leap to the head of the technology

education benefits everyone.”

class. A portion of the family’s recent $4.25-million donation to the school has been earmarked for a major upgrade of classroom technology. Upper School 10

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Kelley Hamilton Associate Head of School for Advancement

Parent Perspective

Bringing out the best

By Lan-Huong Reilly

I was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and lived

consider Liggett until our

there until I was 12 years old.

oldest son was weighing

high school options. He

In 1975, my family fled our country

just hours before the Viet Cong captured

visited some great schools

the capital. We were among the fortunate

but when he spent a day

few to be airlifted from the top of the U.S.

at Liggett, his search

Embassy on the last day of the siege of

was over.

Saigon, with our helicopter taking off just

as sunrise was dawning on my home city.

remember him coming

home from his visit and

My extended family immigrated

I still vividly

to mostly French-speaking regions —

proclaiming he was going

France, Quebec and Switzerland — as

to attend Liggett. I was

we were all educated in French Catholic

taken somewhat aback

schools and spoke French exclusively

as he had his heart set on

while at school.

a Catholic high school

However, my immediate family

for some time, but he

moved to the United States as we were

was adamant Liggett

school had on Sheridan, we transferred

sponsored by a former U.S. Army

was the best choice. Scott and I readily

our daughter to the Middle School

surgeon who met and married one of my

supported his decision as our experience

the next year, and the year after that,

aunts while serving in the war. I married

with the Liggett staff and administration

we transferred our younger son. The

my husband, Scott Reilly, 20 years ago

throughout the selection process was

Liggett staff made sure each child’s

while living in the Twin Cities. We

thoroughly positive and professional.

transition was smooth and non-stressful.

moved to Grosse Pointe in 1995 for career

There was a confidence and competence

Academically and socially all three

reasons and have made it our home

displayed by the Liggett team we found

children have clearly benefited from

ever since. All three of our children —

immensely reassuring, which made

Liggett’s environment.

Sheridan (11th grade), Brynne (ninth) and

the difficult decision of selecting a high

Tristan (fifth) were born here, with our

school quite easy.

programs also have been positive

oldest arriving only a few months after

influences, providing opportunities for

our relocation.

freshman, Scott and I have found it easy

our children to pursue lifelong passions,

As newcomers to the area and first-

Since Sheridan matriculated as a

The sports and extracurricular

and rewarding to become involved with

such as our older son’s love of hockey, or

time parents, we were very interested in

the school. I have volunteered for various

new areas of interest, such as my daughter’s

the educational opportunities the Grosse

activities and have contributed some of

involvement in the robotics club.

Pointes had to offer. We investigated the

my artwork to the annual auction. Scott

public, parochial and private schools, and

serves on the board of trustees, and

have found a school that is committed to

were amazed at the abundance of good

both of us are involved the current

bringing the best out in each child, and

choices in the area. We initially enrolled

capital campaign.

providing its students, and its students’

our children in a Catholic school and

parents, the tools to help them achieve

then in a non-denominational private

our experience at Liggett. Based on

their goals. We only wish we would have

Christian academy. We did not strongly

the immediate, positive impact the

discovered Liggett sooner.

We couldn’t be more pleased with

As parents, we are very happy to

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Student Perspective

Liggett: A Wellspring of Opportunity

By Alec Josaitis

When asked to elaborate on my

a kid — especially a boy — should do. I

be a lifelong passion for theater, and

experiences at Liggett, I gladly accepted

learned this after being teased for simply

numerous other critical skills that have

the opportunity. Soon after I began

taking choir in sixth and seventh grades.

certainly made me a better-rounded

reflecting on my experiences and

Having personally enjoyed the choral

individual. Whether these skills be

writing about them, however, I stalled.

experience, however, I decided I would

carpentry or welding-related (in order

It was not caused by a lack of things

to build the sets for the productions),

to say, and certainly not by a fear of

or leadership roles on and off the stage

having to insincerely praise the school

(such as co-directing a show with a

to please those who asked me to write

classmate and currently serving as

this. Instead, it was caused by just the

director of operations for the Players),

opposite: a flood of wonderful memories.

I am indebted to the organization, and

How do you summarize a high school

Dr. Phill Moss, my director and Chair

experience that seems to have offered

of the Performing Arts Department, for

you the world? From here on out, I

shaping my Liggett experience in such

shall try.

a positive light.

Ah, “I shall try,” that is certainly a

While it is clear that Liggett has

phrase Liggett has challenged me to say

provided me with opportunities, I have

more often. It is this philosophy of trying

tried in return to give back to the school

new things, of pushing yourself farther,

as much as I can. No, I do not personally

that Liggett fosters that has made it such

contribute to the Fund for Excellence (just

a wonderful place.

yet!), but I have worked with my peers

I remember meeting with Mr. Cassidy,

Alec Josaitis in “Master Harold and the Boys.

the current head of the Upper School, in

to create volunteer opportunities for the Liggett community throughout the year.

the summer before my freshman year

“try” out drama. Oh, how things took off

Last September, a few classmates and

in order to discuss my class schedule.

from there.

I cofounded the Liggett Service Corps,

He asked if I had ever taken a drama

whose mission is to provide Liggett with

course before, and if I would like to take

drama program, that I first recognized

one my freshman year. Unfortunately,

the power and comfort of this school’s

I had not had the opportunity to take a

community. For example, almost all

course in theater, as the public school

of my best friends are involved in the

district I had previously attended did

Players organization in some manner. It

not have a performing arts program for

is with these people that I have made my

elementary or middle school students.

high school experience memorable. That

What is even more unfortunate is that the

is not to say, though, that the Players

thought of practicing a performing art

organization is merely a social outlet.

in said school district was discouraged

In the four years I have acted with the

among students for not being something

Players, I have gained what I expect will

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It is through the Liggett Players, our

Alec organized a service project with Focus: HOPE.

opportunities to serve metro Detroit. I have been humbled by the response to our events. Recently, over 25 students and teachers traveled to Focus: HOPE, a nonprofit organization in Detroit with which I have family connections, to package food for seniors and low-income families.

While I have certainly elaborated on

the extracurricular wonders Liggett has provided me, I believe it is essential to finish my reflection with a few words regarding the core of Liggett: unrivaled academic excellence.

Over the past 13 months, I have

engaged in an academic research project, something I believe is the crux of my secondary school education.

This project seeks to understand and embed GPS and GSM technologies in a mobile tracking device. Largely based in fields of electrical engineering, product development, and machine-tomachine communication, the outcome of this project will be the development of a functioning GPS tracking device for motor vehicles, which will be powered by the vibrations of the vehicle’s engine.

“How do you summarize a high school experience that seems to have offered you the world?

I shall try.”

From here on out,

Call this project grand, or too tall

an order for a high school student to attempt. That’s just fine. I will respond with proof that this project is coming along quite smoothly. I believe that Liggett has not only given me the creative skills and confidence to accomplish this academic research project, but has also given me the skills to be successful in life well beyond my days spent on the Cook Road campus.

Here’s to the future, whatever may be

in store!

Above: Alec and Janine Puleo ‘12 in “Moon Over Buffalo.” Right: Aaron Robertson, Alec and Austin Sasser in “Master Harold and the Boys.”

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Cool Jobs

Studying videogame design isn’t all play

By Ron Bernas Like many people who were children in the early years of this century, Justin Mazza ‘10 grew up playing videogames.

Today, he’s a junior at DePaul University in Chicago working toward a degree in videogame design, hoping to turn those hours of “research” he did as a child into a cool job.

He was interviewed over Skype

from Sweden where he’s spending a year studying abroad. When he returns to DePaul in the fall, he’ll finish up his videogame design degree.

Contrary to what one might think,

it’s not all fun and games, Mazza said.

“Other people in the program have dropped out because they didn’t think it was fun.” He says he can understand

screenwriting. “The programming and

that, because in a program like this,

appearance can keep a player happy

growing up, he says the problem-

you can’t help but look at videogames

but the story keeps a player interested.

solving skills he learned on Liggett’s

differently. “It’s a bit of a ruiner.

It’s a bit of a trifecta. You need all three

robotics team help him in his program at

Suddenly you have to look at this thing

working together.”

DePaul. And he encourages students to

you do for fun as school work.”

study computer code: “It’s going to be

in videogame design, he says his degree

That point of view includes a greater

And while he’d like to have a career

appreciation for the storytelling aspect of

will not limit him to just that field.

the game, because as any gamer knows,

there’s more to a videogame than a cool hook and a lot of explosions.

“Sure, it’s good to have the latest

“What they’re teaching are skills

that would transfer to any software development project or project managing,” he said. “You learn how to

graphics and the best looking game,

create budgets and set timelines and

but when it comes right down to it, it’s

schedule. Those are skills that will help

the story that makes or breaks a game,”

in any field.”

he said. That’s why he takes classes in

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In addition to the games he played

commonplace very, very soon.”

Do you have a Cool Job (or are you working toward one)? You could be featured in a future edition of Perspective.

Contact Ron Bernas at rbernas@uls.org with your story.

Department of Alumni Relations

There’s something for everyone at AlumniWeekend 2012-13 Alumni Board of Governors

My favorite time of year at University

ensure that Alumni Weekend traditions

Liggett School is almost here! Alumni

continue for future generations of

Weekend is May 17-18, just a few short

graduates. We really appreciate our loyal

Stacy Buhler ’82 – President

weeks away, and preparations are in

alumni, and the support they show over

full swing.

this weekend celebration. Thank you for

your consideration.

Booth Platt ’96 – Vice President Pahl Zinn ’87 – Secretary Alice Baetz ’64 LIG

The weekend has been thoughtfully

planned out to provide events for

Whether you are celebrating a

families, friends and alumni from all

milestone this year or not, there are a

Aleisa Bicknell ’66 GPUS

different years. I am so pleased to

whole host of events to attend, as you

Carrie Birgbauer ‘93

welcome you all back to campus, and

can see in the schedule. I look forward

hope the weekend helps you connect

to seeing you on campus throughout

with old friends, make new ones, and

the weekend!

Don Blain MD ’41 DUS Elizabeth Bracher ‘87 William Canfield ’64 GPUS

enjoy your old school again! Many of our events will take place right on campus,

Ellen Durand ‘79

and tours will be available for those who

Craig Durno ‘84

are interested on Saturday evening.

This year graduating classes ending

Page Heenan ‘82 Thomas Henry ’61 GPUS Latia Howard ‘03

in 3 and 8 are celebrating milestone reunions, and we will honor them by hosting special reunion dinners.

Abigail McIntyre ‘91

Memorable locations around University

Jane Reuther ’55 GPUS

Liggett School have been selected for

Robin Russell ’59 GPUS Catherine Shell ‘79

these classes to have private dinners.

Volunteers from the Alumni Board have worked tirelessly combing through our

Karen Sutherland ‘81

collection of memorabilia including

Beth Wood ‘89

trophies, yearbooks, class composites,

Friday, May 17 Ladies Luncheon Country Club of Detroit Men’s Golf and Luncheon Country Club of Detroit Saturday, May 18 Alumnae Lacrosse Game Cook Road Athletic Fields, 10 a.m.

Alumni and Faculty Picnic Cook Road Athletic Fields, 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

All-Alumni Cocktail Reception Arts Wing, 5 - 7 p.m.

Reunion Dinners Various Locations on Campus, 7 - 9 p.m.

Dessert Afterglow Arts Wing, 9 - 10 p.m.

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photos and various other mementos to find special items to display for each class.

It’s sure to be a memorable and fun evening.

Alumni Weekend! Contact Savannah Lee

at 313.884.4444, Ext. 415 or email slee@

As nostalgia fills the halls, and

There is still time to register for

hopefully your hearts, I hope you will

uls.org. Registration is also available

consider making a meaningful gift to

online at www.uls.org/alumni.

University Liggett School during Alumni Weekend. By supporting our school, you Spr ing 2013

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Class Notes 1938

Liggett Class Secretary: Jean Downer Hodges 429 Barclay Road Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-2813 trhjdh@sbcglobal.net CDS Class Secretary: We would love to have a CDS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

DUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a DUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1939

Liggett Class Secretary: Mary Louise Goodson Drennen 106 Merriweather Road Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-3623 Sally Baubie Baker wrote that she is the chauffeur for her friends, driving them not only to doctor’s appointments but also to plays, opera and the movies. She still plays bridge at the Ann Arbor Women’s Club and at friends’ houses.

Josephine Rose Karmazin became a long-term resident of the Rivergate Nursing Home in Riverview, Mich., in July of 2012 after only partially recovering from a serious infection that kept her on life-support in the hospital for over a month. Although she has lost a considerable amount of her memory, she is happy and knows that she was a member of the Class of 1939 and always smiles when asked what she remembers about Liggett.

Elaine Kaufman James, when we spoke in February, had just returned from lunch with a friend. They enjoy Toronto’s Winterlicious and Summerlicious events — a week or so of special promotional presentations by top hotels and restaurants. She is busy and making new friends, people who do things. She loves to draw and caption cartoons and promises to send us her latest.

Kathrine Morris Schoew now has four great-grandchildren. Newly arrived is William Cabell Powers, the son of Coulter Powers and a grandson of Kathrine’s daughter, Chrissie.

She and her husband, Roger Powers, now spend half the year in Palm Beach and half in Grosse Pointe. Both are avid bridge players.

Your Class Secretary was sorry she had to miss the alumnae trip to the site of the former Liggett School at Burns and Charlevoix.

Happy Memories of her 12 years there go back to the second grade where Miss Cullen taught us “to cook.” Her recipe for chocolate fudge is still a trusted favorite. We hope to have news of Patsy Giblin Hack and Ann Pelton Babcock for the next Perspective.

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CDS Class Secretary: We would love to have a CDS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

DUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a DUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1940

Liggett Class Secretary: Constance Haberkorn Nichols 176 Kendal Drive Kennett Square, PA 19348-2333 nichols17@verizon.net CDS Class Secretary: We would love to have a CDS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

DUS Class Secretary: William Klingbeil 201 Woodbury Avenue Mt. Dora, FL 32757-2865

1941

Liggett Class Secretary: Jane Kilner Denny 125 E. Gilman Street Madison, WI 53703-1407 Hawkhill@comcast.net CDS Class Secretary: We would love to have a CDS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

DUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a DUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1942

Liggett Class Secretary: We would love to have a Liggett class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

CDS Class Secretary: We would love to have a CDS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

DUS Class Secretary: Robert M. Tonge P.O. Box 357 Waterville, ME 04903-0357 From class secretary Robert Tonge: The DUS class notes space has been void of any news or information about our graduating group for many years, although

Tom Baumgarten, MD, was instrumental in recruiting me to a visit at Cook Road a few years ago.

There were only 15 who graduated in the class of 1942, however, the attendance book records indicated no one knows where these guys went after that June 10 exercise at 3 o’clock.

I do want to say hello to the DUS secretary 1943, Bill Wilson. Saw Bill a few years ago at a gathering of summer regulars. Bill’s brother Bob ’44 DUS was a no-show, but his cousins the Lawson girls were present. As young people we played baseball at the Kensville resort. Our summer experiences began in the mid ’30s and ended after we graduated and went to war.

I was surprised one winter in the early 1960s to find classmate Newt Peabody, MD, at a ski lodge in Kingfield, Maine, with his family. After that surprise meeting we spent summers as member guests at the York Golf Club after, also sailing in the Bay of Maine.

I knew Dennis Ellor lived in England where he returned after the June graduation event. I remember meeting his parents at their Whittier Hotel – his father, an engineer, brought the Rolls engine to Packard Motor where they produced the engine during the war. A few years ago I obtained Dennis’ address, but a visit to London and the Highlands was disappointing – we never connected.

Tom David, one of our 15, if you read this perhaps you’ll tell us where or what you know about John Maloney.

All of our ’42 class were waiting for the long arm of our Uncle Sam offering free board and room and a long vacation. Many of us went into the programs the Navy offered so they could continue their education at colleges across the nation. Don’t remember if DUS ever honored those GI’s who served or who did not return.

My army Air Force days began the following January, and over the next nine months I attended a number of schools before flying to Europe via the Azores and North Africa, landing in Rome one day after the city was liberated.

We flew night missions in the Balkans and Greece, and completed the required 35 combat missions before returning to the U.S. I have, still, vivid memory of my 21st birthday as I was scheduled to fly my 30th mission.

Realizing I was one of 40% who made the flight line that night.

One of our three male children lives in Asia, where he has been for 25 years. We visit his family often and enjoy seeing Elaine and granddaughter Mae Morgan Tonge.

I enjoy good health and spend winters at our ski ramp at Sugarloaf in Maine – summers, our cottage in York, Maine. Now, since returning last year, I can enjoy tennis three times a week. I’m grateful to the teams

Memories of GPUS

By Fran Eriksen What’s in a name? A school by any name is bricks, mortar, teachers, students and learning.

Whether it is called Liggett, University Liggett or Grosse Pointe University School, it is still the same place with special memories for those of us who were privileged to be a part of that special school family.

The names of so many teachers evoke images and memories that will always be aa part of many of us. Names like John Chandler, Grimes, Bellows, Kimber, Trim Arner, Lockhart, Eriksen, Cragg, Shreeman, Hindle, Brock, Arnold, Mendle, Gale, Wood and so many more. Also, kids like Wally, George, Harris, Art, Nels, Mark, Stan, Chuck Dave, Ray and so many more. Just reading ove rhese names brings back so many special memories.

I was blessed, through marriage, to become part of the GPUS family. My husband, Dick, graduated from GPUS, taught sixth grade there, coached there and became head of the Middle School there. Our two sons started their education at GPUS in the preschool headed by their grandmother, Grace Eriksen.

Our closest friends were all part of the GPUS family. It was very hard for Dick to call by the first name so many who had taught and coached him. This was demonstrated so vividly when we went back to Grosse Pointe to be a part of the 40th reunion of the 1965 undefeated football team. It was

heartwarming to watch all those young men hug their former coaches and try to determine whether they could use their first names or call them Mr. or just Coach. What a wonderful night! And yes, we still have that little football labeled GPUS ’57 in our bookcase. The special bond between teacher, coach and student still was strong and special.

The camaraderie among teachers was amazing. The GPUS moving company made up of faculty was a prime example of coworkers helping each other move whenever a change of location was needed. I remember that the GPUS moving company moved all our possessions from an apartment to our first home. The wonderful part was that this was done while we were in Maine working at a camp. It was amazing to find what when we got home, everything was in place — except for Dick’s ties, which briefly disappeared.

So many memories keep coming to mind.

As the years go by, we lose some friends, but in our hearts they are always with us. The name GPUS is imprinted indelibly within us.

By any name it will always be a special part of our lives. God bless GPUS. We will always be grateful for all you give to the Eriksen family.

Having been a part of the GPUS family is to be treasured always.

Send Dick Ericksen your own memories to frantasdick@yahoo.com. Or call 623.251.5285.

Grosse Pointe University School 1954 -1970

From the top, left 1965 football, Clair Lockhart, Dick Trim, Earl Kimber and Dick Eriksen, decending Muriel Brock, Bill Bellows, Bob Wood, Graham Cragg, Grace Erikson and John Chandler.

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Class Notes like Tom and Newt for contributions to my health. What luck we elders enjoy because of these doctors. I’ve had a second pacemaker and new hip.

Ft. Lauderdale draws us to the good weather in spring and fall where we enjoy memories of precious friends and parents.

So classmates if you’re out there in the clouds let’s hear about your adventures, rmtonge@myfairpoint.com.

1943

Liggett Class Secretary: We would love to have a Liggett class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

CDS Class Secretary: Susanne M. Kemp Bartlett 262 Mount Vernon Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-3437 sooze262@aol.com DUS Class Secretary: William Wilson 470 Cambridge Way Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304-3814 wwwilson2@aol.com

1944

Liggett Class Secretary: Roberta Mackey Rigger 830 West 40th Street, At. 304 Baltimore, MD 21211-2125 rmrigger@aol.com CDS Class Secretary: Lydia Kerr Lee 1030 Arbor Lane, Apt. 103 Northfield, IL 60093-3356 A correction from the Fall 2012 Perspective: M. Elaine Wallace Turner and Lydia Kerr Lee were unable to attend their Vassar 65th reunion this past June. The last time Lainie had been to Vassar was to attend the graduation of her son Charles in 1976. What fun!

1945

Liggett Class Secretary: We would love to have a Liggett class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

CDS Class Secretary: We would love to have a CDS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

DUS Class Secretary: Albert M. Mackey, Jr. 276 LaSalle Place Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-3107 amm276las@aol.com

1946

Liggett Class Secretary: Betsy Stanton 805 Edgewood Avenue Rochester, NY 14618-4823 bstanton@rochester.rr.com

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CDS Class Secretary: We would love to have a CDS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

DUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a DUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1947

Liggett Class Secretary: We would love to have a Liggett class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

CDS Class Secretary: Shirley Jerome McKee 9820 Oakhurst Holly, MI 48442-8610 DUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a DUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1948

Liggett Class Secretary: Norah Moncrieff Williams 502 Glen Arbor Lane Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236-1506 JackandNorah@wowway.com CDS Class Secretary: Constance Woodall Fisher 1485 Kingswood Terrace We would love to have a Liggett class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

DUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a DUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1949

Liggett Class Secretary: Ann Bolton Opperthauser 41140 Fox Run Road #610 Novi, MI 48377-4845 CDS Class Secretary: We would love to have a CDS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

DUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a DUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1950

Liggett Class Secretary: We would love to have a Liggett class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

CDS Class Secretary: We would love to have a CDS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

DUS Class Secretary: William J. Cudlip II 284 McKinley Avenue Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-3460 cudlipwj@hotmail.com Dear Fellow Classmates, recently, I picked up the Fall 2012 copy of the ULS magazine Perspective and noted as DUS ’50 class secretary I have not done much reporting or recording of anything during the past 63 years!

My excuse list is rather long but none of it will hold any water, as the expression goes. To make-up for this oversight, I called Savannah Lee, Liggett’s, Manager of Alumni Relations and with her help indicated I would write a “letter” to those of us still about and bring you up to date.

The first thing I thought about is who of the 1950 DUS and 1950 CDS class is still about?

The answer to that thought follows…

DUS 1950 Deceased Dennis Bauman Gus Davis Bill Hester William Klenk Bob Kratzet Noel Melville Bert Miller John Wood Still With Us! William Bell, Haines, Fla. Joseph Berke, Detroit, Mich.

John Brobst, Windsor, Canada Bill Cudlip, Grosse Pointe, Mich.

Bill Heathy, San Mateo, Calif.

John Kolb, Coatsville, Penn.

Boonie Moore, Kent, Conn.

Danny Pyle, Washington, D.C. Warren Sisman, Germantown, Tenn.

Ken Spaulding, Washington, D.C. John Weigele, Charlotte, N.C. No Valid Information Available Charlie Barnett Dick Clark Nils Osbeck Country Day School 1950 Deceased Lee Wadsworth Sarah Weed Mary MacDonald Julie Dickson Adele Huebner Carroll Korneffel Betty Hansen Jo Anne Barkley K. Macauley Still With Us! Gay Buhl Buck, Lake Forest, Ill. Nena Cunningham Dahling, Grosse Pointe, Mich.

Mary Phelan Fuger, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Doreen Booth Hamilton, Chevy Chase, Md. Sara Woodruff Ingold, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Cynthia Wade Lockhart, Chester Springs, Penn.

Barbara Barnum McCollister, Buena Vista, Colo.

BettyLou Givens Middleditch Charlottesville, Va Mary McKean Roby, Grosse Pointe, Mich.

Mary Johnston Satchwell, Warsaw, Ken. Ann Bross Snyder, Winnetka, Ill. Mary Bahr Turino, Bronxville, N.Y. Judy Frost Van Alen, Broomall, Penn.

Jean Wail Garrett, Tulsa, Okla.

The above information is from the alumni records of University Liggett School. If there are any corrections to be noted, please direct them to Savannah Lee at 1 313.884.4444, Ext. 415, slee@uls.org. For reason of protecting your privacy, phone numbers and addresses have not been posted here. If you wish for that information please call Savannah. God bless those who have “gone on” and to those us “still about”…! Que le vaya bien! , or, “may everything go well with you! “ The second thing that came to my mind is how much has changed in the 63 years since we moved on? Too much to note; however, a few highlights…

• A beautiful very much enlarged campus.

• Full tuition fee from $600 in our day to $22,000 today.

• 1950 DUS/CDS senior class size of 40 to a 2013 Liggett senior class size of about 75.

• Today, a Liggett faculty size of 75.

If you would like to bring “us” up to date regarding you and your life, please forward pictures and your commentary to Savannah Lee. The submissions deadline for the next issue of Perspective is in July 2013 .

As a closing thought, maybe those of us “still about” should try to attend the May 1718, 2013 Alumni Weekend. It would be a fun time to get together.

Best Wishes and once again…! Que le vaya bien! Bill Cudlip

1951

Liggett Class Secretary: Barbara Allen Esler 43422 W. Oaks Drive #322 Novi, MI 48377-3300 CDS Class Secretary: Jane Ottaway Dow 191 Ridge Road Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-3554 janeodow@gmail.com From class secretary Jane Dow: Among this year’s Christmas cards was one from Cynthia Wheelock Willis. It included a wonderful photo of “C” and her motherin-law, 107 years young. As you probably remember, Cynthia lost Dick over a year ago.

I’m sure that any of you that received her card would agree that the “Willis Women” have great genes. They both look fabulous!

Pete and I are looking forward to seeing Ann Meader Cooper when she spends time in Islamorada visiting her sister and brother-inlaw, Bette Burr Fenley ’48 CDS and Greene Fenley ’47 DUS. The Fenley’s have been regular winter residents of Islamorada, Fla., for many years.

Alex, Ania, Agata, Tom and Tomek Dow in Poland, 2012.

In February, I had a great catch up conversation with Joanie and Myron May. In recent years they have had a home in Florida at The Villages. For some time, Joanie has been struggling with some serious back problems and has had several operations. When I spoke with her, she was in a rehab facility near The Villages in preparation for yet another operation. She is making great progess. Myron has been a great support going back and forth daily…just home for lunch and dog duty.

She and Myron were very interested in news of our 60th reunion. I filled her in on the great turn out we had and talked about many of the individuals who showed up including the surprise Hazen Pingree.

Joanie brought me up to date on their family. Their daughter Whitney and her husband both continue to be deeply involved in academic endeavors. Whitney is in the process of writing another book. Mike and his family are still living in Texas. Their children are busy with school, sports and performances … their granddaughter is a very talented dancer.

The big news in the Jane Dow and Peter Dow family this year was our trip to Poland.

As some of you may remember, our son, Tom Dow ’83, met his wife, Agata, while he was working in Europe. They celebrated their 20th anniversary this year!

Agata grew up in Poznan. Her grandmother still lives in Poland as do many of her relatives. Because her grandmother’s 90th birthday was on the horizon, plans were made to celebrate her special day.

We joined Tom, Agata, Tomek ’05, Ania ’14 and Alex ’16 on a wonderful trip which included visits to Warsaw and Krakow.

In my last class notes, I reported on the sad loss of Jean Diekoff, Dave Hamilton and George Zinn. However, the editor was not able to include this information. Please see more complete notices in the In Memoriam section of this magazine Jean Diekoff: Jean’s sister Donna Diekoff ’54 CDS reported that Jean suffered a fatal stroke on September 18, 2012. We send our love and condolences to Donna Diekoff and Judith Cohen ’57 GPUS who have provided loving care for her during the last few months of her life.

David Mitchell Hamilton: On September 19, 2012, a gorgeous fall day at St. Paul’s Catholic Church on the Lake, a packed house celebrated David’s life. Dave, and his twin brother John Hamilton were both members of our class for part of our Upper School years. His brother

Bill Hamilton ’48 DUS, and Bill’s wife Susan Whitehead ’53 CDS, came in from Columbus, Ohio. John and his wife, Sheila, came from Jacksonville, Florida. Both brothers spoke at the service as did Dave and Terry’s daughter, Barry, who delivered an eloquent eulogy.

George H. Zinn, Jr.: As you may remember from an earlier Perspective, we reported that George has suffered a stroke, but was recovering nicely at home. We are very sorry to report George’s death on October 6, 2012. George leaves three children, George Zinn III ’83 (Bonnie), Suzanne Z. Mueller ’81 (Kent), and Pahl Zinn ’87 (Christine). He is survived by his devoted wife of 53 years, Mary Anne, and eight grandchildren.

DUS Class Secretary: Edmund R. Sutherland 216 Ridge Road Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-3538

1952

Liggett Class Secretary: Kay Jordan Phillips 14421 N. Ibsen Drive, Apt. A Fountain Hills, AZ 85268-2102 CDS Class Secretary: We would love to have a CDS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

DUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a DUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1953

We would love to have a class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1954

Liggett Class Secretary: Valerie Oppenheim Hart 6849 S Clayton Street Mount Dora, FL 32757-7024 vhartcook@comcast.net A note from Liggett class secretary Valerie Hart: After 59 years we are still going strong as evidenced by the response below. Perhaps it was that our first grade book, “Dick and Jane and Spot,” was quickly replaced with Dickens and Twain and e.e. cummings and we were taught typing instead of how to make cookies and to conjugate Latin and French instead of sew, and our “old maid” teachers, Miss Creighton, Miss Craig, and Miss West told us to go to college to develop our talents and skills instead of just finding a husband. This graduate is convinced it was Liggett’s lust for learning and emphasis on female independence that has brought us to where we are today. The response to our 50th class reunion in 2004 resulted in a memorable experience for each of us who attended. How marvelous it would be if we could celebrate our 60th anniversary on the new University Liggett campus, remembering the past, content with the present, and looking forward to the future.

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Class Notes Coe Cookson Kraus: Jack and I still live in southern Maine and love it. It is quiet and peaceful, even though we must take back roads during the summer months to avoid tourist traffic. Jack and I celebrated 50 years of marriage last June in Russia while on a cruise to avoid the hassle of a party. We are working now on a family reunion we are planning for next June in Orlando to meet and greet our first great-grandson, Gavin Anderson. Because our son’s family lives in the south and our daughter lives in Northville, Mich., it is not easy to arrange their travel time as much as we did in the past. cwkraus@hotmail.com Janet Jones Bagley: Hi everyone, I’m glad to hear from you. Everything is fine down here in Naples for the winter. We did go back to Bloomfield Hills for Christmas for the first time in 14 years. We have a new grandson and we wanted to see him open his presents. After all he is a year and a half. Still playing golf and tennis. That’s pretty silly at my age. What’s going on? Would like to hear from you all.

Luv, Jan janbagley1936@yahoo.com Carol Larsen Marantic: It has been a long time since we have “appeared”, so here it goes: Hi everyone. How nice to once again be catching up. On November 2, 2009, our son Michael, 49, was taken from us as the result of a heart attack. He lived in Portland, Ore. The trip there was a difficult one as we had to clean out his entire apartment and tend to the usual “stuff.” The beauty of it all, however, was that his circle of friends, including his divorced wife, came running, arms extended and took the burden from us. True gifts from Michael. In August of 2011, I had a double mastectomy. With three months of chemo and the unbelievable support from Martha and Joyce, I am cancer free and extremely thankful for friendship. The rheumatoid disease continues to be my nemesis, but I coast and Bob and I have joined forces to help each other “age gracefully.” We are doing well.

Martha Mack Marsh: I have been living in a condominium community called The Cottages at Fishers Landing in Vancouver, Wash., since September of 2001. It is a group of 70 “cottages” that my family declares is just like Main Street, USA, Disneyland. My cottage is a two story Tudor-style haven for me with a glorious purple/eggplant front door. This door is open to welcome any “Liggetteers” who might happen to come to the Portland, Ore., area. I keep busy singing in a chorale called Bravo Vancouver! It is a group of 50-plus men and women who perform “The Messiah” the first Sunday of December, plus other assorted works. I also continue to volunteer at a local fifth-grade classroom helping with the reading program once a week. AAUW meetings and activities, church choir, plus the Landscape Committee at The Cottages spell out my routine. I flew to Maui last February to spend time with my son, Jeff, enjoyed having my daughter, Elizabeth, and her family here this August and plan to go south to Pasadena, Calif., at the end of August to visit my brother George ‘56 GPUS and his wife, Gloria.

Julie Michaels Schlanger: Last year we enjoyed a wonderful trip to Alaska where we were treated to a full viewing of Mt. McKinley,

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along with so much gorgeous scenery and wildlife before returning to our home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. I enjoy ceramics and surf fishing (with Warren in Florida). Our older daughter Laura lives in Greensboro with her husband and two grandsons (13 and 15).

Joanne, our younger daughter, is in Asheville, N.C., with her husband and our 7-year-old granddaughter. I keep in frequent contact with my longtime friend Coe and send my best to all my Liggett colleagues.

Lynn Markus White: We are all doing well. Our girls, Windy ‘84 and Shelley ‘82, visit us often. We celebrated our 50th anniversary in 2012 last summer in Michigan. We took a tour of University Liggett School when we were back. The Cook Road campus is composed of preschool, Lower School, Middle School and Upper School. The new Middle School was completed in time for the new fall semester and it is very special. The old Middle School on Briarcliff is being sold. It was such fun being back. It is an incredible facility. I wish I had grandchildren in Michigan who could take advantage of an education there.

Our grandsons, Riley and John, have a super school system in Winnetka, Ill., because they are in the New Trier district. John, 14, is a freshman and Riley, 12, is in the seventh grade.

The family, including the dog, Tator, will return this week from Nantucket, their special summer home. Tator is a soft-coated Wheaton, and the favorite member of their family.

Carol Phalen Swiggett: Last year began when our daughter, Helen, married Wally Obermeyer on top of Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colo. Everything about it gave me goosebumps. Jim and I were in Guatemala in January and took an “around the world trip” exploring the “World’s Greatest Treasures” and “Legendary Places” in Cusco and Machu Picchu in Peru, Easter Island, Samoa, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Angkor Wat Lhasa, Tibet, Taj Mahal, Serengeti Plain, Luxor and the Pyramids, and Marrakesh. Needless to say it was a trip of a lifetime. Our son. Clif, with his wife and our two grandsons, raised over $20,000 and built a solar energy project to provide a reliable power source to a remote school in Nepal. You can read more about it by looking up “Solar for Shikha” on your computer. Our youngest son, Hank, and his wife Lisa continue to drive and fly their two boys to hockey tournaments. Jamie made the New York Pee Wee Rangers team and made history in Quebec winning the International Tournament, while their daughter prepares her college applications. Needless to say we are truly blessed and treasure every minute of our healthy and active life. We still spend our winters in Tubac, Arizona and our summers on Long Island and in Maine on our own island. I am still painting and now have a website, although I am not very good at keeping it up to date. Go to carolswiggett.com or to Rogoway’s Turquoise Tortoise Gallery. Or better yet, come for a visit. January 16, 2013: We’re leaving for South America tomorrow, so if we discover any rare earth, gold or diamonds, we’ll let you know.

Carol Silverman: As of September 2012, I am no longer employed, having spent 40 years in the Animal Health Industry calling

veterinarians. Now I am spending time fixing up the house which was neglected for years.

In addition, I continue to pursue my hobby of some 50 years of showing dogs, particularly Doberman Pinschers and occasionally German Shorthair Pointers. In 2008, I had the winner of the top 20 Dobermans in the country and in 2011 campaigned another Dobe to No. 2 in the country. Looking forward to news from the rest of the Liggett Girls. Carol Silverman, 6251 St. James Ct., West Bloomfield, MI 48322 PH: 248.626.1224 Joyce Lovisa Rogers: Can it almost be 60 years? At this point in my life I have come to the conclusion that memories are the gifts of our lives. I especially treasure those of the many happy years and friendships I enjoyed while at Liggett.

Beside Bruce’s new knee, the most significant change in our lives since I last wrote is the increase in number of our family.

Three of our seven grandchildren have married and we are now (for real) greatgrandparents to four and waiting to welcome two more this year. In June I took Michael’s daughters, Marisa (17) and Mikaela (15), to Italy to meet my/their family. Michael joined us at the end of our tour of Rome, Florence and Venice to accompany us to Treviso, It was a memorable and happy reunion of four generations of the Lovisa family including my aunt and uncle, who is now 91, as well as all my cousins and their families. It was a dream come true for me. Carol Marantic and I had a wonderful visit in July. We reminisced about Liggett and MSU friends and consoled each other about “the aging process.” We agreed the best antidote is a sense of humor.

My warm regards to everyone. How wonderful to still be in contact with high school friends.

To our class of ’54: When we celebrated our 50th reunion, we racked our brains to remember the exact words we sang as we marched down the aisles of the auditorium to our graduation. Here they are for all those with teary memories: We thy seniors hail thee – hail thee Liggett School our alma mater.

We thy seniors hail thee – hail thee we go forth to life.

God has told us get thee ready for the time when we must part.

Well hast thou prepared us for it by thy noble teachings.

We thy seniors hail thee – hail thee Liggett School our alma mater.

We thy seniors hail thee – hail thee We go forth to life.

Respectfully yours, Valerie Oppenheim Hart, class secretary vhartcook@comcast.net – email me cookingandtips.com – visit my website and blog dailycommericial.com – weekly food column GPUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a GPUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

A correction from the Fall 2012 Perspective: A photo of Ann Murphy Schaaf and Carol Graves indicated the alumnae were Class of 1954 GPUS. Both alumnae are graduates of 1954 CDS.

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Liggett Class Secretary: Gael Webster McFarland 212 20th Avenue Indian Rocks Beach, FL 33785-3840 gaelstan@gmail.com GPUS Secretary: Jane Weaver Reuther 81 Lewiston Road Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 jnb7@comcast.net Reade Ryan: I am still working at my law firm, Shearman & Sterling LLP, as “Of Counsel.”

That designation means I have retired as a partner, but still continue working on transactions and other matters for the law firm (though not 24/7 as I used to do). I still find practicing law fascinating, my specialty being bank finance and bank regulatory matters.

My other big interest (in addition to my wife Joanie) is my grandchildren. My son, Rob Ryan - working at Goldman Sachs as a “quant” and living in Brooklyn Heights, a 30-minute subway ride from where we live at 25 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023 — has two children, Teddy (9) and George (6). Both Teddy and George are wonderful to play with, and constantly amusing. My daughter, Rebecca Ryan — working at Georgetown University as an assistant professor of developmental psychology and living in Washington, D.C. — has one child, Maxwell (Max) Ryan Munzer, (1) who is also wonderful to play with and be around. Yes, both of my kids are married, Rob to Elise Meslow, an English teacher at the boys school, St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights, and Rebecca to John Munzer, who works at the Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C. This May, Joanie and I plan to go with one of my law school roommates and his wife to Brittany (St. Malo) in France for a week. We will stay near the water in a big house that my roommate “won” for a week at a charity auction. After Brittany, Joanie and I go to Paris, my favorite city, for another week. So, I am trying to “tune up” my French, which I first learned at GPUS with Mr. Connelly.

And this summer Joanie and I will go for a month (July) to our “camp” in Maine, where we will see my sister, Susie Ryan Knapp ’59 GPUS and her husband George, (who live in Plantation, Fla.) and their three children and six grandchildren, and our kids and grandkids.

Our time at our camp in Maine, in the deep woods on Echo Lake, is always fun — and even somewhat productive, since the area around our camp is now wired for cell phone and Wi-Fi service (a mixed blessing).

So Joanie and I look forward to a fun- and activity-filled 2013, and I wish the rest of the GPUS Class of 1955 the same.

Edgar C. Howbert: Jane Reuther verbally nudged me to provide some news. She is doing a good job, and I could not help responding.

Susan and I now make our permanent home in Petoskey, Mich., as of last July, in a house on a hill looking across Little Traverse Bay to Harbor Springs. We also rent a flat near the Village in Grosse Pointe, where I stay for three or four nights most weeks while continuing to work at my law firm. Susan retired in 2011 from her job at the Council of Michigan Foundations, so she is up north most of the time. Our children, Jed ’94 who lives in Manhattan, and Dana (Thacher School ‘97), who lives in Santa Monica, Calif., have visited us three times already, and are happy with our move, even though getting there isn’t so easy. Don’t hesitate to call if you are ever in northern Michigan. It would be nice to see some classmates.

Mimi Kenower Dyer reports a couple of great sailing trips she and Dan have enjoyed recently. They took their well-travelled Rabbit (37-foot sailboat on which they circumnavigated in the ‘70s) to the Bras d’Or Lakes of Nova Scotia last summer. Scenery was breathtaking by both water and land, and the Cape Breton folk friendly and hospitable.

Just back (end of January) from a sailing trip in Phuket, Thailand, where dozens of limestone and granite islands have been pushed straight up out of the sea, many of them with enclosed “rooms” or “hongs” of white sand, clear water, towering walls and only a dark cave-like tunnel to enter cautiously by dinghy (one dead-end brought my claustrophobia roaring to the surface). The Thai people we met were gracious, cheerful, helpful, gentle and serene.

Sending best wishes to classmates – love reading the news of ’55 and surrounding classes!

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Liggett Class Secretary: Joanne Streit Stewart 5 Debeaufain Drive Bluffton, SC 29909-2500 danawsa@sc.rr.com GPUS Class Secretaries: Lylas Good Mogk, MD 1000 Yorkshire Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230-1432 lmogk@aol.com George Jerome 40 Edgemere Road Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-3709 ggjsr@aol.com A note from GPUS class secretaries Lylas Good Mogk and George Jerome: We are embarking on a new tack: Instead of plaguing you all with admonitions to write every few months, we will aim at featuring three classmates in each column, whom we will cajole, encourage and relentlessly hound, as needed, to share a bit of their lives and thoughts. In addition we always welcome everyone’s breaking news, joyful and otherwise. This time we hear from Cinda Rogers Barthel, Don McKnight and a two-fer in Ginny and Mike Ryan, all of whom most graciously responded!

Cinda Rogers Barthel: We have had a good year, blessed with good health, good

friends and family close by. Have stayed pretty close to home except for our annual jaunt to see son Kurt and family in Hawaii, but seem to keep busy. I still enjoy my gardens and reading (mostly historical novels and mysteries) and we both keep busy with church activities. Hank and I are on several committees — with a building well over 100 years old and an aging congregation there is always something that needs to be done. Our alma mater, Wittenberg University, is nearby and we enjoy being a part of activities there.

“We are also involved with the Tippecanoe Historical Society which we really enjoy.

Tipp City was founded in 1840 as Tippecanoe City on the Miami-Erie Canal and has kept its history alive throughout the years through restored buildings, historical theater presentations, school programs, and the “Tombstones Can Talk” program at the local cemetery twice a year. (People dress in period costume and tell the stories of the town founders, etc. who are buried there.) Also we have an annual Christmas Home Tour where historic homes, decorated for Christmas and staffed by “early residents” in costume, are opened to the public while carolers in early English dress roam the streets. Guess you can tell we are enjoying being part of a small town.

“We’ll celebrate our 55th anniversary in June and, after 20 homes in those 55 years, are hoping Tipp City is the final one. Son Zack lives here and is a big help to us. We’re looking forward to visiting Kurt, his wife PeiChing, and daughters Alana (10) and Keala (4) in February. Kurt’s business is doing well and PeiChing is doing a wonderful job homeschooling the girls. They are also into a lot of outside activities — violin, ballet, swim team as well as learning Chinese. Wish we could see them more often, but Skype is a big help in keeping up with their activities. Hope maybe we can make the 60th reunion. Best wishes to all.

Don McKnight: Since almost 60 years have passed since I left the then DUS, many memories have disappeared but I still have thoughts about Mr. Armstrong, ELK and Coach. Good teachers do help form one.

At any rate, today Helen and I have two now middle aged kids (scary) and three grandchildren. Our son is in Santa Monica, Calif., beautiful but I would not want to live there and our daughter is in Memphis Tenn., also lovely but as our granddaughter said to Helen one day, “Grammy it is very very very hot in Memphis.”

So with the distance apart from family, we have learned the joy of Skype and FaceTime.

Just think of how much fun we would all have had with today’s technology way back when we all thought we knew everything! So now as the years speed by, we have learned better now how to relax and just enjoy. I hope all are doing the same. . . in particular just enjoy!

Ginny and Mike Ryan: As we look back at the year that has passed, we are again grateful for our many blessings. The highlight was our trip to Seattle to be with daughter Julie ‘80 and her family, celebrating the high school graduation of her youngest, Liam, now a happy freshman at Rollins in Florida, while his brother is a junior at Cornell. Son Rob ’83 and his wife, Rachel, remain happily in Bronxville,

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Bob Dunsky, Harriet Dunsky ‘57 and family.

Judie Bailey-Gillis ‘57 grandaughter Clare.

Linda Weingarden Roth portrait of grandaughter Taylor titled Taylor.

where he works at home and she commutes to the city. After the graduation festivities, a number of us took advantage of the proximity of Seattle to Alaska and took a family cruise.

It was a time full of wonderful moments that will remain with us forever.

Ginny got a good dose of adventure when she traveled to Vietnam and Cambodia, prior to the Rotary International Convention in Thailand. Shortly thereafter, five Honduran Rotarians came to Michigan to celebrate the completion of the project she has been involved with for six years, building water systems in mountain villages and a hospital in Honduras.

Michael was, as always, difficult to pry away from his desk. He maintains his role as treasurer of two organizations, one of which requires almost a full time accountant. He has become quite adept at providing required federal and state filings, managing payroll and reporting. He still manages to volunteer elsewhere, provide tutoring for the technically challenged at two libraries as well as working multiple shifts at the library’s used book store.

Our sadness was the loss of our old dog, Billy, the one-eyed, broken jaw mess of a rescue who was, perhaps, the gentlest and sweetest dog we’ve ever had. Coco, a 12-pound ball of white fluff, full of energy and love has moved in to fill our hearts. We lose some and win some.

We send you warm wishes for a peaceful 2013. We too wish you all a fine 2013 and look forward to seeing you in 2016.

Frankfort. It was a perfect place to be for all ages. I also saw my brother, Alan Hartwick ‘63 GPUS, in Leland. Leland never seems to change and looks great. I managed to do some painting this summer to contribute to our club for their art festival in January. It wasn’t easy packing the car this fall with all the paintings in frames but we managed to get here with no damage.

Daughter Lynne ’88 and Larry Scoville ’85 and Louise and Katie were able to get down during Christmas break and New Year’s Eve. The weather was nice enough to be able to get to the beach and enjoy other outings like the Sailor Circus (all kids from small to seniors in high school) and the Mote Museum where we saw Sea Lions perform - amazing. Larry and I are taking bridge lessons (I think we will enjoy it) and working on our golf. I hope all our classmates are doing well and hope that we all will hear from them.

Ann Mavon Lawrence: We enjoyed Christmas at home with our son, Mark, and family. Our oldest son, Tom, who lives in San Antonio, Texas, brought his family to join us for Thanksgiving, his birthday, and mine.

Then, on December 30, Tim and I celebrated 51 years together. In July, our daughter, Jane, who lives in South Carolina, joined all of us here in Virginia Beach, where time was spent on the beach. I am enjoying overseeing Ann Travis, from afar, as she prepares for her trip to Australia soon. It is like a passing dream that we were back in the Detroit area to join up with classmates for our 50th! I am so glad we went! Tim is still pleased that he had the opportunity to visit the Liggett scene, and to meet classmates. Ann Travis’s trip to Sydney with her niece celebrates her 75th birthday.

She reports that she leads “a very interesting life!

Harriet Dunsky: Since I retired from my business seven years ago I am still loving the slower pace and not too many deadlines. We have been traveling, playing lots of golf and volunteering. Bob is still working part time a few days a week at Providence Hospital. No grandchildren, just Grand Dogs. I’d love to see everyone. I hope a reunion in the near future.

I can’t believe it’s been 53 years of marriage and 55 since our graduation from Liggett. We are off next week to Florida and a nice warm cruise sailing in the Caribbean. Love to all our classmates.

Nini Lofstrom: In February, last year, I went to Mali, in West Africa, as a tourist.

There was a coup two weeks after I returned, leading to the war that has broken out in the

north. I befriended my tour guide, Mohamed, who is from Timbuktu, and am now trying to help him and his families survive as there is NO tourism in Mali and everyone is suffering.

So, if anyone wants to donate, I will gladly accept support. I went to Senegal to meet up with “Mo” because I didn’t want to go back to Mali. He is now in Bamako and the future is uncertain. The rest of his family is in a town near the Senegal border, after spending some time in a refugee camp in Burkina Faso.

In contrast to the above drama, I am taking a “blues” cruise out of Ft. Lauderdale. My other project is supporting an orphan in Nepal through a dear friend’s organization, Virtue’s Children Nepal. All the money donated goes to his projects and there is NO overhead.

Judie Bailey-Gillis: What a great 50th reunion weekend we shared in 2007. Let’s do it again. I want to see all of you and hear your stories. Though retired, I still give private piano lessons to young and old, including a gracious octogenarian who gives me produce he grows in back of his home on Lake Shore Drive.

My big news is marrying Phil Gillis, a semi-retired lawyer. (He asked me to add “semi” in case you want to sue somebody.)

He is from a family of four judges. “I am the maverick in the family,” he says. “I decided to work for a living.” Phil and I live in a condo overlooking our marina on Lake St. Clair.

We enjoy glorious sunrises. Phil has recovered from three spells of cancer, two surgeries and five weeks of daily radiation from a cyclotron in Seattle. “Two more and I will be an ace,” he brags.

Currently, my son Chris is Project Manager for Domino’s Pizza headquarters in Ann Arbor.

They are going global in “Down Under.” He travels to customers’ corporate headquarters throughout the country. My son, Matthew, is a software engineer for Match.com in its Dallas headquarters. He and his lovely fiancee Jessica, a genuine Louisianian and graduate of LSU, are planning their wedding next September.

Attached is a picture of Nora Clare, my only grandchild who gives us much joy.

Lylas Good Mogk lmogk@aol.com George Jerome GGJSR@aol.com

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Liggett Class Secretary: Diane Bedford Svenonius 736 Silver Spring Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20910-4661 dbsvenonius@msn.com Claire Hartwick Connor writes: Another year went by quickly and we are in Sarasota now and will be back in Grosse Pointe in May. Sarasota is a wonderful city with tons of things to do - great theaters, lectures, museums, and restaurants - never a dull moment!

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GPUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a GPUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

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Liggett Class Secretary: Lois Dickinson Hutchison 135 Cochise Drive Sedona, AZ 86351-7928 hutchlovl@earthlink.net

Linda Weingarden Roth portrait of grandaughter Taylor titled TaylorX4.

Wendy Martin Blair ‘58 LIG.

GPUS Class Secretary: Suzie Sisman Decker 77 Muskoka Road Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-3009 suziesis@aol.com

travel the world, Lois and Denis can start a new healing place, Susie and Russ can dance forever, etc. I hope that the students at University Liggett today get that same sense of confidence and adventure. I think they do. My life in Missouri is joyful. I see my grandchildren becoming interesting and amazing adults, my daughters living to their potential and growing as their children do and I continue to have a wonderful marriage after 53 years and counting.

Sandy Roney-Hays: Sam and I are still involved in the same stuff! My 24/7 oxygen makes it more difficult to travel spontaneously, but, overall, things are going well. I continue wearing lights on the oxygen — it keeps students asking questions, and serves many other supportive functions for people on oxygen and their caregivers. He is now helping me do the monthly programs at an Assisted Living American House (Bob Gillette’s wonderful enterprise.) We have a great time packing goodie bags and getting programs set up, and residents get a kick out of the lights on the oxygen.

We have currently adopted a cat that belongs to my closest college friend. She is a Visiting Foreign Professor at the University of Gujrat in Pakistan — the first American to teach on that campus. She arrived right after the film fiasco with the anti-Muslim film that came out of the United States. That presented a few initial challenges, but all seems to be going well...except the relationship between her cat and ours. They seem to be going through a slow dance, but are not quite ready to join paws gently!

The biggest upcoming project is a large program on critical thinking and conspiracy theories. The discussion will be led by one of our best philosophy professors. There should be about 400 students at 40 tables discussing and voting on conclusions. Each table is moderated by a faculty member or administrator. Everyone seems to enjoy these Global Roundtables.

Martha Friedricks-Glass: Where did I leave off? Not too much news.

Thankfully, I am still working full-time.

Buying real estate in New York continues to excite those wanting to jump into the fray, and there are lots of those folks of all ages.

My husband is “hanging on” and still getting around the neighborhood on his own. His dementia seems to be stable for the moment.

We just came back from Nashville, Tenn., visiting my daughter and her family. Grand kids are growing up (10 and 7).

Linda Weingarden Roth: I’m a portrait painter these days. During the last years of famine in the design/build business, I returned to fine art and have built a new career. No sooner did that come together, then the design/build business improved and Ellis got busy. But he’s on his own; I love what I’m doing. The portrait pictured here is four faces of my granddaughter Taylor, Taylor X 4.

It’s a study in charcoal, for a larger painting to be done in oils in between commissions and spreading the word - and doing pets. Cat portraits seem to be in demand.

Ellis’ passion when he’s not busy working is hunting online for resorts we might want to visit next winter. Currently, Thailand has his interest. But when it comes down to going, I know we’ll be going back to Mexico. Just three and half hours away, the glorious Caribbean, a palm tree, a cushioned chaise lounge, and excellent service waits. I take my watercolors and paint the beach people. We’ve been going south of the border for so long and have met the same people so many years in a row that it’s like old home week at the Ritz and the JW Marriott.

Our kids—middle aged guys all three— are healthy, making money and enjoying their families. Our grandkids are involved shaping their lives their way. All is well in the Roth Clan—including my left knee, which I had cleaned out and regenerated last January for the next 50 years. We’re currently discussing where and when we’ll all get together this summer. Tahoe has a good chance, but we do like Pismo Beach—and the Tenaya Lodge in Yosemite. The only thing for certain is the Eastern Roths are going West. Stay tuned.

Mary Warren Eich: As I read and reread the news of our class, I am struck by how creative we are. Something has allowed us to be willing to risk new things in our lives, even as we approach 75. I never painted anything until 12 years ago when I started a decorative painting class. I find so much joy in being able to do something creative. While my art is nothing compared to Linda’s beautiful abstracts, or Wendy’s stunning jewelry, it is satisfying to me. I think it was Liggett that created in us a belief that we could do anything we set our minds and hearts to.

It means Donna and Martha Fredricks can

The weather in New York is cold and windy, actually VERY cold! Is this climate change?

Am in touch with Wendy and Allison from time-to-time. I love being connected and look forward to hearing from any of you at any time.

Wishing everyone a healthy end of winter.

Diane Finkel Hubert: My husband, Richard, is a massage therapist. He truly believes he found his calling. I feel lucky to be married to Richard!

Like many of us, my days are filled with far too much digital stuff at work and at home. One wonders how we ever functioned in the world before computers, tablets and smart phones.

Once again I feel lucky to write that all is well in my very winter world. We did another river trip, this time in southern France in September. I couldn’t have dreamed better. In my next life I want to be French! Nine friends coming from several home locations met up at the airport in Lyon, France. Over seven days we traveled through Burgundy and Provence visiting historical sites, sampling the wine, and dining on the fabulous cuisine of the region.

Our river trip ended in Arles. Four of us had arranged for a car and we spend the next five days driving to Nice for our departure home.

While on the road trip we visited Aix-enProvence, Cassis, the great Gorge de Verdon, and a charming village tucked into the AlpsMaritime Mountains. We spent our last two days in Vance and St. Paul De Vance. A very wonderful trip.

We are now planning a trip at the end of March to St. Lucia, in the Caribbean. We will join some friends who are wintering on their 41-foot sail boat. We will be aboard about 10 days. We will day sail to various islands in the vicinity and explore. The weather should be perfect. By the time we get home it will be time to take the tarp off our own boat and get ready for another season on Grand Traverse Bay and Lake Michigan. We are hoping that the water levels don’t drop more than they already have as many marinas, fuel docks, and moorings will be too shallow for access. Right now, Lake Michigan is at an all-time low.

Our children are all well. Richard and I are still working and enjoying what we do. Every morning I walk my route and give thanks to the universe that I’m out there walking. Be healthy and joyful Martha Sanford: Hello all, Sibling news: This winter one of my Brown brothers (David ‘57 GPUS) had Saunders send me a box of their famous chocolate. Keith Brown, once married to Sandy L., reported on his work on an old Yamaski building. So much for archival information about Detroit.

Current news: Grandson, Cade Mac Millan is learning to play the baritone, a rather large and loud brass horn. Rhys, his younger brother, loves art and is talented, of course.

I spent the holiday with them in Nashville, Tenn. The Seattle Mac Millans are grand. Peter and his band Certain/Inertia, have made their first record. Their son Barrett is a delight. For now my traveling is to visit my sons and then stay home to tend my garden. Hope you are all well.

Wendy Martin Blair: Class notes seems to roll around every other week or so and I am

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Anne Wrigley Molesky ‘60 LIG.

Milton Osgood

usually racking my brain for something new to tell you. This time I have something. Allison has been here for almost a month, escaping the cold winter in Detroit. For the first 10 days, we went to Pismo Beach to spend time with my friends there, though in my own little cottage.

It was somewhat rainy and cold, but lovely to look out the front window and see the ocean every morning, complete with seagulls and pelicans.

Allison Lewis Friedman: Thirteen hours from Scottsdale to Pismo Beach, most of it desert – booooorrrring!! But driving through the coastal mountains and valleys in California was gorgeous and rather thrilling on two lane winding highways to avoid L.A. Wendy’s house is right on the ocean and her friends right next door were terrific in showing us around the Central Coast area.

San Luis Obispo is like Ann Arbor – college town – without the weather. Back to Scottsdale and going to bead stores and shops looking for modern furniture and accessories. Fresh squeezed orange juice every morning off the trees in Wendy’s “back 40.” So nice to be here!

Wendy Martin Blair: One of the things I completed this month was classes with my sweet dog Abby so she could become my service dog, and she passed her test with flying colors. Now she can go with me on planes, hotels, stores, etc., anywhere I need to go. Allison and I are looking forward to going to the gem show in Tucson in a week or so for a few days of seeing what’s new in the gem world, and shopping for same. I am excited every year when Tucson fills up with vendors from all over the world. It’s almost like visiting foreign countries all in one place!

Allison Lewis Friedman: Abby’s score was 92 out of 92 – A+! So now it won’t be as much of a necessity to drive to Pismo as Abby can fly in Wendy’s lap. Wendy has been helping me practice and master some techniques – I am amazed at the fineness of the tiny work she does, and so beautiful.

Have heard so much about this gem show and am looking forward to being dazzled! My mother’s family has roots in southern Arizona so it will be great fun to be back in Tucson.

Daughter Amy with husband Mike were in Birmingham for the holidays and that was great – had the Christmas decorations out for the first time in years; lots of memories for both Ames and me. Back to Birmingham in Feb and taking up my nanny-ing and piano lessoning again.

Wendy Martin Blair: We’re taking advantage of a rainy day in Scottsdale to catch

up together on these class notes. So, let me say that my sons and my mom (93) are all well.

My grandson will ship out to Afghanistan next month and of course we are all worried for him, and wish that the war there had already wound down. We wish for a healthy and happy 2013!

Dianne Neff Kabbush: Happily Dianne was able to connect with Birgit by phone.

Dianne is doing fine but keeping up with the rest of her family keeps her busy. She loves to read and is always reading something. This news made me think we should exchange the names of the books that we consider great reads.

Marilyn Wood Holleran: Marilyn retired from teaching after 35 years. Her son Patrick retired recently from the Air Force. Her husband Tom is still working. Marilyn will be visiting in the Detroit area this spring to celebrate Aunt Renee’s 94th birthday. She has plans to see Sandy while she is in the area.

Marilyn was diagnosed with lung cancer last year. The doctors found the problem by chance when they were x-raying her shoulder. She hasn’t smoked in 50 years. To get rid of the cancer they removed 30% of her left lower lung. She is cancer free so far and no other treatments are planned. She wanted others to know that there were no symptoms at all.

She was told that by the time there are any symptoms it is usually too late to save the lung. She is taking respiratory therapy and doing well.

Carol Nagel Lantz: Carol and Larry recently visited Carol’s son and grandsons in Naples, Fla., and will visit them again in March. Also they are planning a trip to Germany this summer with Larry’s granddaughters. Carol went with a group to Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Ariz. in January this year.

Lois Dickinson Hutchison: I’m still working as a massage therapist, playing tennis and hiking. I take all sorts of vitamins and magic potions to keep going at this crazy pace. I keep going to classes to learn more about what it’s really all about. We visited my half-sister in LaJolla, Calif., recently and then drove to Tucson to see where our Alaskan friends were wintering. It’s been colder than usuall here but we are hoping for the usually warm weather soon. Thanks to all of you for responding. It’s fun to hear from all of you on a regular basis.

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Natalie and Dell Litsky Rubin (standing), Diane (friend), Anne Wrigley Molesky and Ingrid Sandecki.

Donna Sisk Carl: Hi 1958 classmates. Bob and I are doing well after bouts with the flu (despite having the flu shot) and bronchitis right after Christmas. We enjoyed spending time with family over the holidays, but now we’re ready to leave on Feb. 4 for a three-week cruise in the Caribbean. I’m not fond of winter weather with the cold temperatures and snow and ice, so I’ve gotten spoiled with our usual January or February cruises into sunshine and warm temperatures.

In June and July, we’re taking a 22-day Viking River Cruise on the Grand Rivers of Europe —Danube, Rhine and Main — the trip takes us from Budapest to Basel. This trip will be on a 190-passenger long boat, the Forseti.

Family is doing well — three grandchildren who have graduated college and are in the work force, three more will graduate from college in 2014, and others just beginning — our 12 grandchildren range in age from 27 to 7 — so we have some time to go to see completion of their educations.

Despite retiring from our stained glass business, we have a commission order for five more church windows from a church where we have already created 10 windows. They wanted to make sure we did the remaining ones before we were too old to finish the project! Hopefully we can get them done within a years’ time! My best to each of you!

Susie Kreis Champine: Got back from the north lands a couple days ago. Our main reason for the trip was the wedding of grandson Josh in Wisconsin. Sister Sandy joined us so it was a mini reunion with her, our daughter’s and sons’ families and us. We thought she wasn’t going to make it back to Florida due to Isaac and flights cancelled but she made it. One of the highlights of the trip is that we got a tour of our granddaughter Kalyn’s new school and first-grade classroom.

For those of you who were teachers it was unbelievable, very state of the art.

Today we’re expecting our niece from Florida and her brother from Kansas City.

Planned on boating this holiday weekend but we’re getting the backlash of Isaac. It’s been a crazy summer with the temps in the 100s really too hot to be out on the lake. Spent more time indoors but kept busy with my quilting projects.

Gearing up for our Homemakers Club annual luncheon and auction with proceeds going to our scholarship fund. It’s always a fun day but lots of work planning, making decorations, and also making items for the auction.

GPUS Class Secretary: Alice Gage Schultes 511 Lakeland Grosse Pointe, MI 48230-1268 aliceg@comcast.net

1961

Liggett Class Secretary: We would love to have a Liggett class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

Karin Ryding ‘60 LIG and Anne Wrigley Molesky ‘60 LIG.

Robin and Les Wrigley and Anne Wrigley Molesky ‘60 LIG.

We’ve rented a house in Gulf Shores, Alabama in October so we’re really hoping this last hurricane is the last for that area.

Health wise we’re doing good — of course a few aches and pains that seem to come with age. I had a good report this past August from my oncologist.

We really enjoyed seeing Dell Litsky Rubin and Earl Smithern at Natalie and Gordie’s party. Dell is very involved with her bowling league in Florida during the winter time. Their winter address is 9 Southwind Dr., Englewood, FL 34223 Phone: 847.227.7179.

Their summer address is P.O. Box 0446, Marblehead, OH 43440, 419-734-5623.

Karin Ryding: Victor is still working full-time at his state department job teaching Polish and doing translations. Karin and Victor went to their Alabaster Cottage in Michigan several times in the spring, summer and fall. They enjoyed seeing relatives and friends and especially loved being at the beach. Karin finished her latest book, number five, about Arabic language pedagogy and sent it off to Georgetown University Press. It should be out next fall. Now she is working on the next one. They are looking forward to welcoming Victor’s Polish family members to their home this coming spring and summer.

Included is a photo of Karin getting ready to leave Anne and Tom’s home to go to Alabaster.

Ingrid Sandecki really enjoyed going to Natalie and Gordie’s home, and having a royal tour of their home and property. Gordie showed her their antique car collection as well. It was the first time she had been to their home.

Anne Wrigley Molesky: Anne and her sister, Alice Wrigley Baetz ’64 LIG and their friend Alice Van Tassell attended the Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame celebration on Friday, October 5, 2012. It was very exciting to hear those who were announcing who were awarded the honor and to hear those who accepted the honor. It was like going to a pep rally.

November 5- 16, Tom and I went to Palm Desert, Calif. Anne’s brother, Les Wrigley and his wife Robin joined us. Included is a photo of Robin, Les and Anne. Les and Robin really enjoyed being with us to celebrate Robin’s birthday, and also to go hiking while they were there. One of the things we gave them was a scrapbook of our Liggett days. I graduated in 1960, so Les was in second grade and boys could only attend Liggett through second grade. They were mesmerized by the photos of Alice, Les and me. We returned home and they then went to San Diego for a hiking trip.

We will be returning to our Ocean Pointe Marriott time share April 12-27 in Palm Beach Shores, Fla. Our email address is tomjmolesky@gmail.com.

1959

Liggett Class Secretary: We would love to have a Liggett class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

GPUS Class Secretary: Robin Duke Harris Russell 2 Flagler Drive Rye, NY 10580-1848 rdhr@mindspring.com

1960

Liggett Class Secretary: Anne Wrigley Molesky 19540 Butternut Southfield, MI 48076-1764 Anne Wrigley Molesky: I received a letter from Savannah Lee. Alumni Relations Manager, requesting email addresses from fellow classmates. You may contact Savannah at 313.884.4444, Ext. 415 with your email address.

Gwendy Bennett Gugino and Jim Gugino have moved to Scottsdale, Ariz. Gwendy called me and we had a great conversation for about 40 minutes. In 2011, they rented a home in Scottsdale and loved it! They sold their home in New Mexico, moved to their new home in Scottsdale, and had a party the second Tuesday in January. Quickly, I wanted to share the photo of Milton Osgood. Their new address is 6337 E. Dust Coyote Cir., Scottsdale, AZ 85266. Phone: 480-272-9304.

Mary Alice Clarke Ferguson and John Ferguson have moved this past year. We received their Christmas card with their new address, P.O. Box 358, Pentwater, MI 49449.

Natalie Deloe Riewe and Gordie Riewe had a marvelous party at their home on September 15. They had a tent, a piano player, delicious food and games for the children that were enjoyed by family and friends.

Approximately 90 people were in attendance.

Included is a photo of Natalie and Dell Litsky Rubin (standing), Diane (a longtime friend), Anne Wrigley Molesky and Ingrid Sandecki (seated).

GPUS Class Secretary: Marion Polizzi Shanle 21 North Duval Road Grosse Pointe Shores, MI 48236-1108

1962

Liggett Class Secretary: We would love to have a Liggett class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

GPUS Class Secretary: Susan Adams White 11 East Bay Blvd.

Spring, TX 77380-2997 suwhite11@aol.com Cynthia Osgood O’Hare: Tom and I received a Christmas card from Cynthia’s father Milton.

“Dear family and friends, it is hard to believe that I will be 97 in February. I am enjoying visiting Denne on Harsens Island and being able to cut the lawn. Paul and Bill have dinner with me several nights a week and often take me to Michiana for the weekend. Milton’s planning on taking me for a few weeks to Florida in the spring. Cindy came to visit me in July and we had a wonderful visit. I hope your family is well. Have a happy and healthy year!”

1963

Liggett Class Secretary: Sharon Litsky 2000 California Street #402 San Francisco, CA 94109-4302 sharonlitsky@sbcglobal.net Gail Sake Niskar 30030 High Valley Road Farmington Hills, MI 48331-2143 galeml@aol.com Sharon Litsky says we all did such a great job of sending in a blurb for the last edition of Perspective, that no one had much to add this time. I’m happy to report that several classmates have said that they are interested in reuniting for our 50th class reunion in May of 2013. I’ll be sending out information about this as soon as I get it from the school and hope that as many of you who are able will attend.

I don’t know how many of you remember our Liggett School Song, but it was something meaningful and special to us as students and brings back memories. I don’t know to whom to give attribution but here it is:

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Marti Jones Touchstone ‘66 and Jani DuCharme Gunsaulus.

Chrissie Johnson Zoufal ‘67 GPUS

Jo Ford Ingle ‘67, Chris Squiers Lubliner, Jani DuCharme Gunsaulus and Cathy Lilly Watts

Liggett School Song O Liggett School we sing to you In you our heats are bound anew, From childhood’s years to womanhood Your guidance has been sound and true.

In every heart you hold a place Made greater with the passing years, And in our lives your lasting grace Its precious worth to all endears.

Then sign to Liggett! Lift her name On high, O make the echoes ring, For one and all united bring The spirit which has made her fame.

the weekend of the 50th, so please let everyone know I send my best wishes and regrets I can’t be there!

GPUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a GPUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

Marianne Moran Eddy: I simply loved reading what everyone has been doing with their lives in the last Class Notes! Sorry I didn’t realize I was “lost” until I read Sharon’s nice plea for the whereabouts of the missing.

Since graduation I have lived in Boston, Lexington (Va.), D.C., Grosse Pointe and Troy, then back to Boston, where I have been since 1981 and consider home. (Years ago I visited Annette while she was attending Wellesley, and I remember coming out of the subway onto Boston Common, looking around and thinking, “Well, so that’s what’s been amiss my whole life — I was born in the wrong place!”) Boston has surely been my Right Place.

Anyway, to sum up all the missing decades, I worked in health care administration for many years, until one day I found myself carrying three beepers and talking backwards — definitely a sign unto me. Ever since I have been doing freelance writing/editing and frequently think of Miss Craig with gratitude. Believe it or not, she also taught my mother.

I remarried in 1988, and David and I have one son, Duncan, who is currently a senior at Rice University in Houston. Duncan grew up with my telling him to plan on going away to college because it’s wonderful to experience a culturally different part of the country.

Happily, he saw the wisdom in that and has had an amazing four years. And in the spirit of going away, he’s just been accepted into the aeronautics/astronautics graduate program at Stanford and has his sights set on near-earth asteroids, so I’m now thinking perhaps I went a bit overboard with the away business?

We are in the throes of cleaning out our house, where we’ve been for 20-plus years, and getting ready to sell it. A move is in order, and I think I’m finally ready for a change of scene, not to mention weather. In the spirit of away, maybe Oregon? Time will tell.

Meanwhile, I will be at Duncan’s graduation

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GPUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a GPUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

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1964

Liggett Class Secretary: Jani DuCharme Gunsaulus 74 Essex Road Ipswich, MA 01938-2548 Janidu00us@yahoo.com

GPUS Class Secretary: William B. Canfield III 5307 Falmouth Road Bethesda, MD 20816-2916 canfieldwilliam@gmail.com

Jani DuCharme Gunsaulus submitted the included photos for the class on 1967 GPUS. The first is Marti Jones Touchstone ‘66 and Jani DuCharme Gunsaulus at Tryon Steeplechase, NC. It was a long overdue, special rendezvous! The second photo is Chrissie Johnson Zoufal in Charleston, SC with Clyde and Calvin Gunsaulus, Jani’s two boys! The last photo is Jo Ford Ingle, Chris Squiers Lubliner, Jani DuCharme Gunsaulus, and Cathy Lilly Watts who was visiting from Norfolk, London. The picture is from our Florida rendezvous in March 2012.

Liggett Class Secretary: Karolyn A. Krieghoff Sewell 2046 Camino de los Robles Menlo Park, CA 94025-5917 ksewell7@comcast.net

1965

Liggett Class Secretary: Eugenie Corey Wagner 604 Cressfield Lane Ann Arbor, MI 48103-3105 eugeniewagner@gmail.com GPUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a GPUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1966

Liggett Class Secretary: Dr. Susan Stuckey Thoms 4937 Fairway Ridge Circle West Bloomfield, MI 48323-3321 sthoms@umich.edu Eve Cotter Goeddel and her husband, Fred, retired and moved to Jacksonville, Fla., in 2010. We recently became grandparents, and have a wonderful grandson named Cooper, who was born on October 11, 2012. We are fortunate to have Cooper and his parents living right around the corner. Our younger son, who recently moved to Miami, is going to be married on May 18 in Sarasota, Fla., to his high school sweetheart. I play golf several times a week, tennis when my knee cooperates, and have recently learned Mah Jongg. We have lots of visitors, so give me a call if you are in the area.

Chris King Sale is excited to announce her first grandchild, Sophia, born in November, 2012.

GPUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a GPUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1968

Liggett Class Secretary: Joni Welch Hollinger 229 South Quincy Street Hinsdale, IL 60521-3949 tfvinc@aol.com GPUS Class Secretary: We would love to have a GPUS class secretary!

Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1969

Liggett Class Secretary: We would love to have a Liggett class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

GPUS Class Secretary: Bettye Bee Friedberg Reis 37 W. 72nd Street, Apt. 11B New York, NY 10023-3488 bbreis@nyc.rr.com

Doug Weiss ‘70 and family.

Lou Reed and Allison Weiss.

Martin Wieczorek ‘71 and daughter Claire at Kaieteur Falls, Guyana.

Rev. Meredith B. Jackson 500 Deepwoods Drive Valley Grande, AL 36701-0404 jaypbsig@sprintmail.com

I also spent two weeks in Croatia, Slovenia, and a bit of Italy in November, because Ximena had a fall quarter program on the island of Rab. I missed Leslie but enjoyed the trip. It was the same format as trips I took with her – staying mostly in apartments for a few days at a time and spending most time in the country rather than big cities (though I really enjoyed Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia). But I also realized that I was able to do things (mostly involving walking long distances or in places with difficult footing) that I couldn’t have done with Leslie.

Meanwhile, I’m still working as an energy consultant, still here in Woodland, Calif., in a Victorian house on half an acre, and I’m not planning to do anything different any time soon.

CM Higbie: I’m about to be a grandfather for the first time. Son, Bud, left the SEAL teams at the end of last year, just in time for this big event (no more travel!). It will be a daughter, due any day in early February.

John Danaher: This past summer Doug Weiss and I went west to my straw bale casa in Westcliffe, Colo. to relive our trips in the ’80s. Chuck Shreve was to join us however a pending spine operation held him back. We hiked the rainbow trail, rafted the Arkansas and terrorized the residents of Ophir pass outside of Telluride. There was much stuccoing to be done on the casa and Doug performed admirably with a bucket of mud high on a ladder. We had a great time!

Kathy Worcester Getz: Our news is that we are now grandparents! Son Mike ’99 and his wife, Sabrina, just had their first baby, a girl they named Leela, born December 18, 2012.

They live in New York City. We just learned that our oldest, Allison Getz Sullivan ’97 and her husband, Kevin, are expecting their first baby in July. They live in Chicago. We love our new role as grandparents but wish the new families lived closer to us. Also in New York is our daughter, Molly Getz Sheldon ’04, and her husband Oliver. They love NYC and have many Grosse Pointe friends they see.

Our son, Max ’08, is a happy bachelor living in Chicago, too. He has a new job with Coyote Logistics. Mike ’71 and I are doing well and look forward to traveling to some fun cities!

Stefan Moberg: I am still working as a freelance stage director and playwright.

Among the things I’ve done last year is a huge summer outdoor production of a new Swedish play about a girl from our time who suddenly finds herself in the fairy tale country of the Grimm brothers, a staging of various Strindberg texts at a theatre in Stockholm

and a production of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” the world’s longest-running play, celebrating its 60th jubilee. It opened in November 1952 in London and is still runníng.

Very appropriate, since I also celebrated my own 60th birthday in conjunction with the opening of my staging of it here. It was quite a party!

Toward the end of the year I became a grandfather! Two months ago my oldest son and his girlfriend had a beautiful little baby girl, and in another three months my daughter, now living in London, will be a mother, thus making me a grandfather twice within five months. Apart from feeling slightly uncomfortable with the label “grandfather” I am as proud and happy as can be!

My two remaining sons are doing well too.

The older one makes an honest living selling meats in a delicatessen, and the youngest one (18) graduates from high school this spring, and already earns his own keep and more as a musician (drummer) in two bands and as an usher at the Stockholm City Theatre. Oh yes - I am still married.

Cilla Mead: I’ve been spending a little more time in Grosse Pointe, lately and will be summering there a bit. It’ll be nice to see my old pals more often. Other than that, I still freelance as a graphic designer and enjoying oil painting and skiing. Please update your email and home addresses with the alumni office. Thank you!

1970

Liggett Class Secretary: Renee R. McDuffee 480 Lodge Drive Detroit, MI 48214 renee.mcduffee@36thdistrictcourt.org GPUS Class Secretary: Pricilla Mead 461 South York Street Denver, CO 80209-2724 ulsclass1970@gmail.com Doug Weiss ‘70: (dglswss@gmail.com), Lesley Weiss and son A.J. (Doug, Jr.) Weiss traveled to NYC in 2012 to celebrate daughter Allison Weiss’ (allisonw.com) Summer European Tour in support of Lou Reed. Lou Reed was the face of the Velvet Underground and is in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to performing her opening set, Allison was asked by Lou to sing on a number of his songs including the iconic “Take a Walk on The Wild Side,” and who hasn’t sung along with that tune!

This was our first visit since Allison moved to Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to continue her career as a singer-songwriter.

I met Lesley 26 years ago playing guitar in Grosse Pointe and we still play a few shows a year. A.J. (see “Ciao Marco” by Arturo in Letto on YouTube) entered Emory Law School in the fall, but used to tour with Allison when they attended UGA in Athens, Ga. We are all having the ultimate vicarious experience watching Allison.

We’ve lived in Flowery Branch, Ga. since 1992 and love the area. Lesley teaches tennis at North Georgia State University and I manage my real estate holdings.

Bill Marcus: I skipped the last Perspective because it was still difficult, but I need to report that my wife (of 27 years) Leslie was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August, 2011 and passed away on May 29, 2012. I am getting better slowly but trying to adjust to being on my own again without her.

I send greetings from Chris Wuerscher.

My sister Ximena (who lives in Seattle after going back to school in landscape architecture at age 50), her boyfriend David and I met up with Chris and his wife Christine for dinner while we were all spending some time on Vancouver Island in July.

1971

Class Secretary: Shanda Rumble 851 Westchester Way Birmingham, MI 48009-2917 shanshome@yahoo.com Roses are red Violets are blue It’s fun to be sixty I wish that were true Hi Everyone, Don’t worry...you haven’t changed a bit, but those portraits in your attics are looking pretty rough. Here’s who I’ve heard from this time: Steve Tait: Not much to report. I am dreading turning the big 60, and can’t believe it is happening, but will be spending my birthday with my partner Dave in India where we will be spending three weeks traveling and exploring from the cities to a tented safari in a tiger game reserve.

John Chapman: I started the year off initiating a new jazz quartet in my hometown

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Roxane Lie ‘80 - D’Artagnon, a 9 year-old Vizsla, resting comfortably.

Roxane Lie ‘80 - Bear, a 13 year-old dog German Wirehair Pointer.

Class of 1992 25th reunion picnic at Grosse Pointe City park.

of Harvard, Mass., on January 1. The performing pace promises to be pretty pokey prospectively, perhaps, However, I hope to record my fourth CD this year, and I know that going public in a publication of this circulation will goad me to maximum efforts.

I quit my day job a long time ago and am not sure why I couldn’t focus on a respectable way of making a living, but the source of my waywardness is definitely not to be sought in the halls of my high school (and don’t go looking in the locker room either). Of course, law school didn’t help. Otherwise, I lead a mostly idyllic life in a small New England town, with two really nice teenage kids and particularly patient wife. I started a book club this past year which includes Ilene Rosin and George Silvis in its membership. I’d write more, but I need to get back to “The Brothers Karamazov.” Bes Our final thought from Kirk: The big family adventure was visiting Bryant in South Africa. Both boys are living in D.C. now. Alex works with a non-profit group and Bryant works with Brookings Economic Group.

We were all in Detroit for my father’s 91st birthday recently, but it was a very quick trip.

Martin Wieczorek: Time flies when you’re having fun. I do admit that I was somewhat depressed when I turned 60 this year but after my own little pity party I know life has been good to me and I’ve been really lucky. I’m still delivering babies and almost always I find it magical.

I am fortunate enough to work in the ob/gyn department at University Hospitals of Cleveland. Two of my colleagues have fostered a relationship with Georgetown Hospital in Guyana (South America). They are establishing an ob/Gyn residency program there. I was fortunate enough to travel with them and teach the resident doctors about my area of medicine. This picture is of my daughter Claire and me at Kaieteur Falls, Guyana.

Lynn Carruthers Park, Eve Exley Guernsey, Chris Bushnell, David Boydell and I have been in contact planning our 40th reunion!

University Liggett School is busy planning various activities for us to participate in.

However, they have changed the cocktail/ dinner location since our 35th. It is now held at the school. In the meantime, we are planning a class dinner at the country club of Detroit on Saturday, May 18.

If you have changed your address since our 35th, please contact me with you update.

Invitations to school events and our dinner to follow. Looking forward to seeing you.

Best, Annie

1979

1974

Roxane Lie: I love living in Oregon. I’ve been here for 14 years now, in the Wilsonville area, halfway between Portland and Salem.

My current dogs are D’Artagnon (9 year old Vizsla) and Bear (13 year old German Wirehair Pointer that I inherited a few months ago).

Salus (Vizsla) passed away in September, 2012.

Sergei ’97 married in October, 2012, in the upper peninsula to Kara Conway. I couldn’t make the wedding, but everyone else did. I was sorry to hear of Betsy Ferguson’s passing.

She taught several of us Lie kids!

1972

Class Secretary: Kevin Granger 943 Hidden Lane Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236-1522 mikevric@comcast.net

1973

Class Secretary: Anne K. Galyean 160 South Beach Road Hobe Sounds, FL 33455 dragonannie@gmail.com

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Class Secretary: Sara Hendrie Sessions 900 Sunningdale Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236-1670 sessions9@comcast.net

1975

We would love to have a class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1976

Rev. Carol Gregg Stratton 1148 North Lawn Park Alma, MI 48801-2108 greggandstratton@gmail.com Ruth Sinkule Stock: All three of my daughters are married now. Two have graduated college and one will graduate in May 2013. I am enjoying being Program Manager for the Business Mail Entry systems at the Postal Service. This position is more related to the BMA from Cleveland State U in 2004 than my PhD from University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1986. But it’s all process and communication!

1977

We would love to have a class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1978

We would love to have a class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

Class Secretary: Catherine Sphire Shell 185 Ridge Road Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-3554 cshell185@comcast.net

1980

Class Secretary: Roxane Lie 25131 SW Gage Rd. Wilsonville, Oregon 97070 rml2vizsla2002@yahoo.com

1981

We would love to have a class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1982

Michael Ottaway 252 Cloverly Road Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-3304 Michael_Ottaway@ml.com

1983

We would love to have a class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

1984

Class Secretary: Lawrence Paolucci 1898 Kenmore Drive Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236-1982 lpaolucci@wcpc.us Marc Lie and wife Anya live in the San Francisco area with Maya and Asia.

Anne Hildebrandt Tranchida ‘92 and second child, Elise Marie.

Matthew ‘95 and Kathy Corona with son Ethan and baby Avery Grace.

Katherine Leleszi ‘96 and James Carbo were married September 1, 2012.

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Samina Qureshi 2016 Norwood Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236-1746 Saminaq1@yahoo.com

Natasha Lie and Chris live in Beelingham, Wash., north of Seattle.

Elizabeth Eldridge Weber: Is married with four kids, Lilly (8), Claire (7), Anabel (5) and Emmett (2) and is currently a stay-at-home mom in Chicago.

Stephen LoGrasso: Is an institutional bond broker living in South Florida. He djs electronic music at large events and is an avid poker player. He also recently started a real estate investment company.

John Addis: Is the Art Director for Rizzi Designs, a popular Marketing Firm in Lansing.

Just married last month and has one daughter Sophia (5). Still doing music when he can, though these days it’s usually in the form of a jingle.

Peter Brown: Is the director of G7 Entertainment Marketing in Nashville, Tenn., where he moved four years ago. He is married to Angie and has a wonderful 2-year-old son named Truman Louis. He recently caught up with class mates Jeff Mertz and Rob Listman when visiting Grosse Pointe and had a great time seeing Sameer Patel in Los Angeles Sameer Patel: Is a radiologist living in Los Angeles where he is saving the world one film at a time.

Class Secretary: Andra Hirt Starshak 414 Woodland Court Glenview, IL 60025-3462 astarkshak@comcast.net

We would love to have a class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

Lancelot Lie and wife Vivian spent 2011-12 traveling the world with Lillian, Audrey, Emilia and Josephine. They are now back in the Chicago area.

1987

Class Secretary: Eva Dodds 6196 Eastmoor Rd. Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301-1440 evamdodds@aol.com

1988

Class Secretary: Joy Brzuchowski Nichols 2688 Amberley Drive Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301-2655 umpilots@aol.com Parcival Lie lives in the Detroit area and continues to travel frequently with his job.

1989

Class Secretaries: Dike Ajiri 3031 Old Glenview Road Wilmette, IL 60091-2908 dajiri@yahoo.com

1990

Class Secretaries: Brooke Hohmeyer Kemler Hohenstaufenstr 36 Apartment no. 20 71696 Moeglingen Germany brookemler@hotmail.com Dr. Sreedhar “Steve” Samudrala 9143 Concord Hunt Circle Brentwood, TN 37027-8762 DrSam@AFDclinics.com

Class Secretaries: Natasha Moulton-Levy 5400 Bucksaw Court Columbia, MD 21044-5717 teklaml@aol.com

Gunther Lie and Nancy live in San Francisco with Amstel and Zealand.

1992

Class Secretaries: Lila LaHood 1624 Vallejo Street, Apt. 2 San Francisco, CA 94123-5115 lilalahood@gmail.com Anne Hildebrandt Tranchida 521 Lakeland Grosse Pointe, MI 48230 arh1214@aol.com During 2012 reunion weekend, the Class of 1992 held a 25th reunion picnic at the Grosse Pointe City Park. It turned out to be a beautiful day and everyone in attendance had a great time reminiscing about the fun times at University Liggett School. We plan to get together again for a 30-year reunion picnic in 2017!

Anne Hildebrandt Tranchida and her husband, Paul, welcomed their second child, Elise Marie, to their family on July 2, 2012.

Elise Marie was 8 lbs. 9.6 oz. and 21 inches.

Her big brother, Alexander (2.5 yrs.) was very excited for her arrival, too!

Tamara Lie Fobare and Greg live in the Detroit area with Greta, Harrison and Andrew.

Tamara coaches at University Liggett School!

1993

Class Secretary: Carrie Birgbauer 42 Morton Avenue, #13 NYC, NY 10014 cbirgbauer@me.com

1994

Class Secretary: Peter Brown 5605 Trousdale Drive Brentwood, TN 37027-4308

1995

We would love to have a class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

Matthew Corona and Kathy Corona welcomed their new little girl, Avery Grace in September 2012. She was born weighing 8 pounds 13 ounces, and measuring 21.5 inches.

Not to mention, a full head of hair just like her older brother. Mom and baby are doing great, and Ethan is already a pro at big brother duties.

1996

Class Secretaries: Jennifer Silverton 445 West Baraga Avenue, #4 Marquette, MI 49855-4558 jsilvers@nmu.edu Rachel Calderon 3208 Silva Street Lakewood, CA 90712-3014 Katherine Leleszi Carbo: I was recently married on September 1, 2012 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Old Town, Alexandria.

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Class Notes My husband’s name is James Carbo. He is originally from Philadelphia, Penn.

My passion for independent schools lives on as I am currently in my fifth year as the Director of Admissions JK-5 at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School in Alexandria, VA. SSSAS is a JK-12 grade Episcopal Day School.

My sister Elizabeth ’94 and her husband Eric had a baby boy, CJ Cuneo, in August of 2011. I am his proud godmother!

Sergei Lie and Kara Conway married in October 2012 in Petoskey, MI. They live in the Detroit area.

1997

Class Secretary: Peter Birgbauer 124 East 85th, Apartment 5F New York City, NY 10028 pbirgbauer@gmail.com

1998

We would love to have a class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

Ariadne Lie lives in Denver, but currently she’s in Tanzania for a year!

1999

We would love to have a class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

2000

Sergei Lie ‘96 and wife Kara Conway were married in October, 2012.

Tiffany Buescher March ‘03 and husband Eric welcomed son Carter James in May, 2012.

2004

Laura Hicks laura.hicks10@gmail.com

Class Secretaries: Rachel Costello 126 East Pointe Lane, Apt. B23 East Lansing, MI 48823-1984 rachelncostello@gm.com Carly Croskey 180 Country Club Drive Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236-2902 cacroskey@gmail.com Meghan Doletzky 1365 Pinellas Road Belleair, FL 33756-1061

2005

Class Secretaries: Caitlin Costello 800 Cadieux Road Grosse Pointe, MI 48230-1232 caitlinbcostello@gmail.com

Class Secretary: Celeste Hubbard 636 S Cochran Avenue, Apt. 205 Los Angeles, CA 90036-4036

Kimberly M. Dickinson 240 Brown Street Providence, RI 02906-1527 Kimberly_Dickinson@brown.edu

2001

2006

Class Secretary: Christal Phillips christalphillips@gmail.com

2002

We would love to have a class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

2003

Class Secretary: Brandon Celestin 1126 Berkshire Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230-1341 Brandon.celestin@gmail.com Tiffany Buescher March ’03 and her husband, Eric, welcomed their first child, Carter James March, on May 7, 2012. The family recently moved from Traverse City to Culver, Ind.

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Class Secretary: Alyssa Bronikowski 1221 N. Dearborn #211N Chicago, IL 60610-8376 Alyssa.bronikowski@gmail.com

2007

Class Secretaries: Catherine Watson Catherine.V.Watson@gmail.com Sabra Morman Sabramorman@yahoo.com

2008

Class Secretaries: Maria Russo mariarusso90@comcast.net

2009

Class Secretary: Bianca Aviolo 4884 Kensington Detroit, MI 48224 Bianca@thesecondguess.com

2010

Class Secretary: Mary Grech marygrech22@gmail.com Paige Counsman ‘10 was named Outstanding Offensive Player of the Year for the University of Pacific field hockey team. Counsman, a junior, led the team in goals and was second in points. Her highlight came when she scored two goals in Pacific’s 3-2 victory over 22-ranked Michigan State. Pacific plays in the Western Division of the NorPac Conference, which includes Stanford, Cal Berkeley, and University California-Davis.

Mark Ghafari was selected to the 2012-13 Capital One Academic All-District 6 Men’s Basketball team on Thursday, Jan. 31. As an all-district selection, Mark advances to the national ballot for Academic All-America consideration.

2011

We would love to have a class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

2012

We would love to have a class secretary! Call Savannah Lee @ 313.884.4444, ext. 415 or email slee@uls.org.

In Memoriam

Douglas T. McClure ’41 DUS died December 17, 2012. Mr. McClure retired in November 1989 as executive Director – Marketing after 42 years with Ford Motor Co. where he held a number of sales and marketing positions since starting as a trainee in 1947.

Following retirement, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Henry Ford Health System from 1989 to 1995, when he was named an honorary trustee.

Mr. McClure was a trustee of University Liggett School in the 1970s when Grosse Pointe University School and Liggett merged. He also served on a number of other professional and community boards including the Michigan Cancer Foundation, The Hill School, Association of National Advertisers, The Ad Council and Adcraft Club of Detroit.

Following graduation from The Hill School, Mr. McClure entered Princeton, graduating with honors in 1947 after serving in the OSS during World War II. In 1951, Mr. McClure married Marjorie (Midge) Oberteuffer ’43 CDS and is survived by her and sons Doug Jr. ’70, Peter ’83, daughter Julie Chandler ’72 and seven grandchildren. His brother Don graduated with the DUS class of ’38 and sister Mary graduated from Liggett in 1935. Both predeceased Doug.

Gloria McCormick-Goodhart ’43 CDS, passed away Thursday, December 20, 2012, at her home in Portland, Ore. She was born to Armin and Lorone Rickel and raised in Grosse Pointe. Her father was the president of H.W. Rickel and Co., founded by her grandfather, Henry William Rickel in 1906. She attended Grosse Pointe Country Day School, Bradford Junior College and Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 1946, she made her social debut at the family home on Edgemont Park overlooking Lake St. Clair.

Summer months were spent at the family cottage, Pine Bough, on Mackinac Island.

She was a lifelong member and deacon of the Grosse Pointe Memorial Church. She was also a member of Tau Beta and the Junior League of Detroit.

In 1950, she married Leander “Jack” Hamilton McCormick-Goodhart of London, England. Mr. McCormick-Goodhart was an executive with the Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. as a recruitment specialist. The couple built their family home on Tonnancour Place, where they raised their family.

In 1995, she moved to Portland to be closer to two of her children. She enjoyed art and ballet.

Mrs. McCormick-Goodhart is survived by her sons Leander Rickel McCormickGoodhart and Mark Hamilton McCormickGoodhart (Annmarie); daughter, Lorone McCormick-Goodhart (Steve Knudsen) and grandchildren, David (Bethany), Matthew, Mark and Julie McCormick-Goodhart and Severin (Emily), Colton and Jens Knudsen. She was predeceased by her husband and sisters, Jean Handwork McCardle, Gretchen Wolf and Lorone Porter.

No services will be held. Mrs. McCormickGoodhart’s ashes will be reunited with her

Douglass T. McClure ‘41 DUS

William Young Gard ‘44 DUS

husband’s ashes in early summer and spread at the HF Bar Ranch in Saddlestring, Wyo. William Young Gard ’44 DUS died Tuesday, January 22, 2013. He was a longtime Grosse Pointe resident.

He was born June 10, 1927, in Detroit, to Paul Drown and Martha Young Gard and graduated from Detroit University School in 1944. From 1945 to 1946 he was an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve and assigned to officer training at the University of Nebraska.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Yale University in 1949. In 1952, he married Nancy Frazer Pierson. Mr. Gard began his professional career in 1949 as a motor products salesman. He then worked as an account representative for Dura Corp. for 15 years before buying D&F Corp. in 1968.

He served as president and chairman until retiring in 1992.

He served on the boards of a number of civic and community organizations including University Liggett School, Friends of Grosse Pointe Public Library, Grosse Pointe War Memorial, Detroit Community Music School, Center for Creative Studies and Country Club of Detroit. He also served the vestries of Christ Church Grosse Pointe and St. Michael’s Episcopal Church.

Mr. Gard was a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Leland Country Club, Yondotega Club and Senior Men’s Club of Grosse Pointe, as well as a life member of the County Club of Detroit. He enjoyed volunteer work especially with United Foundation, Michigan Colleges Foundation and Mariners Inn. He especially loved music and performed with and served as music director for the Grunyons for more than 60 years. He also was a member of the Yale Glee Club, Whiffenpoofs and at various times throughout his life, Grosse Pointe Chamber Singers and St. Stephen’s Carolers. He also had been the choir director for St. Michael’s Choir and the Mariners Inn Choir.

Mr. Gard is survived by his children, Elizabeth, Paul ‘73 (Marianne) and Martha Stott ‘77 (Sam) and grandchildren, Kiera Corbin Phlipot (Alan), Lyric Alena Stott, William Scanlan “Kick” Gard and Carolyn Pierson “Pierce” Gard. He was predeceased by his wife, Nancy ’47 CDS. Jean Diekoff ’51 CDS suffered a fatal stroke on September 18, 2012. Ms. Diekoff was the top student of her class and graduated

Summa Cum Laude and graduated from Wellesley College in 1955.

From 1971-98, Jean served on the faculty of Green Hills Academy in Ann Arbor. In addition to teaching Latin she was a talented pianist. She regularly accompanied Green Hills’ choir and played for the school’s spring musicals. She also implemented Green Hills’ membership in the Cum Laude Society.

David Mitchell Hamilton ’51 DUS died September 16, 2012, at Beaumont Hospital in Grosse Pointe. Mr. Hamilton was born February 3, 1933, in Detroit. He was the fourth generation owner of the Wm. R. Hamilton Co. funeral home, carrying on the family tradition of serving families in the metro Detroit area for his entire career.

Mr. Hamilton is survived by his wife of 54 years Ellen ‘Terry’ Phelan Hamilton ’53 CDS; son Philip K. Hamilton II ’82 (Lesa); daughter Barry Byndas (Mark); grandchildren Anna Skae Page and William R. Page; older brother William R. Hamilton III ’49 DUS (Susan); twin brother John Millis Hamilton ’51 DUS (Sheila), and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his son David Mitchell Hamilton Jr. in 1977 and his parents William R. Hamilton II and Dorothy Millis Hamilton.

Funeral services took place at St. Paul’s On the Lake Catholic Church, Grosse Pointe Farms.

George H. Zinn, Jr. ’51 DUS passed away on October 6, 2012.

Born October 19, 1933, in Detroit, to Dr. George H. and Pearl Post Zinn, Mr. Zinn earned a B.B.A., M.B.A. and J.D. from the University of Michigan. He was an attorney, arbitrator and lecturer, practicing law at Butzel, Long, Gust, Klein and Van Zile in downtown Detroit for over 40 years.

Mr. Zinn will always be known for living life to its fullest, playing football in the Big Ten, racing stock cars pre-NASCAR, being a Golden Gloves boxer, commanding a Sherman tank in the U.S. Army, as well as being in the brotherhood of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

He is survived by his spouse of 53 years, Mary Anne Pahl Zinn and their children, Suzanne ‘82 (Kent), George ‘83 (Bonnie), and Pahl ‘87 (Christie). In addition, he is survived by eight grandchildren: Eleanor, George, Spencer, Kate ‘18, Matthew, Trevor, Luther “Luke” ‘19, and Kendall ‘21, all of whom brought great joy to him in later years.

Visitation and funeral services were held at Christ Church Grosse Pointe on Friday, October 12.

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Class Notes George requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Christ Church Grosse Pointe referencing the DeHaven Endowment Fund for Music in the memo line.

Olin Jennings ’61 GPUS passed away at home on Thursday, August 2, 2012, of cancer.

As chairman of The Jennings Group, the management consulting company he and his wife, Laura, created in 1989, Mr. Jennings worked primarily with engineering and environmental service companies. In the last decade, The Jennings Group created an extended leadership development program, through which Mr. Jennings trained over 3,000 people in business management, leadership and interpersonal skills. Many of the participants found his unique program transformative and life-changing, strengthening not only their professional lives, but also their marriages, parenting and personal friendships as well.

He also co-wrote “Did You Hear What I Said? A book on growing listening skills.”

Wherever he went, Mr. Jennings was known for his jokes and puns, as well as for his sincere caring for those he met. A native of Michigan and a graduate of Lawrence University, Mr. Jennings held an engineering degree from the Macken School of Mines and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

He was a guest lecturer at Marshal School of Business (University of Southern California), Tufts University, and Personal Strengths.

Prior to his work through the Jennings Group, Mr. Jennings ‘ career in strategic management consulting included work for Booz, Allen & Hamilton and Touche Ross (now Deloitte & Touche). He was an active member of the Evangelical Free Church of Blairstown. Prior to moving to Columbia in 1992, he lived in Chatham Township, NJ, where he was a member of Long Hill Chapel.

While in Chatham, he and Laura built up a ministry for divorce recovery through the church.

He is survived by his wife of 27 years, Laura; his four children, Elizabeth Rosenheim, of Bethesda, MD, Courtlandt Jennings, of Ashland, Ore., Katherine Kaynak, of Hopkinton, NH and Peter Alton, of Los Angeles, Calif.; and his six grandchildren.

Clare Brackett Morison ’64 GPUS died at home Sunday, December 2, 2012.

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Clare Brackett Morison ‘64 GPUS

Jill Meredith Curtiss ‘88

She was born August 25, 1946, in Baltimore and was predeceased by her father, Ayers Morison, and longtime partner, Phillip Fike, professor, head of the metal arts department at Wayne State University. She is survived by her mother, Marylin Brackett Morison; her brother, Ayers Morison Jr. (Susan), and uncle, Rufus Morison (Beth).

Ms. Morison attended Grosse Pointe University School and graduated from Kent School in Kent, Conn. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hollins College in Roanoke, Va. She did graduate work at Radcliffe College Publishing School in Cambridge, Mass., and worked for a publishing firm in Boston for whom she edited physics texts. Later, she used these skills for composing theater programs for Cass Theater productions. She also created numerous stage set and costume designs and acted in many of the amateur theater productions.

Her family said Ms. Morison was widely known for her artistic talents and developed “Studio Clare” into a thriving business to create and market wax and metal art work.

She developed innovative technologies such as high-temperature wax to expedite her work.

Some of her ornamental works won prize recognition as serious works of art.

She crewed on the beloved family sailboat, Sunshine, a frequent competitor in the Bayview to Mackinac race, and worked tirelessly on its upkeep as a true labor of love.

Ms. Morison sang in the chorale of Christ Church, Grosse Pointe, and toured with the

group to several European cities. She was an active participant in the church’s team that worked with Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. She was on the board of the National Society of Colonial Dames in Michigan and a member of the Junior League of Detroit.

She will be deeply missed by her family and many friends. A memorial service was held on January 5, at Christ Church, Grosse Pointe.

Jill Meredith Curtiss ‘88 passed away Friday, November 9, 2012, in the loving embrace of her family at her home in Denver.

She was born Oct. 12, 1970, in Grosse Pointe, attended the Grosse Pointe Academy and graduated from University Liggett School.

She was a member of Tau Beta. She was a graduate of Miami University, earned a juris doctor degree from Pepperdine University and a master of laws degree from John Marshall Law School. She practiced law in Los Angeles until she became ill with leiomyosarcoma.

Ms. Curtiss moved to Denver in December 2011, to be closer to her brother and his family.

She was predeceased by her father, Craig Curtiss, in 1997. Ms. Curtiss is survived by her mother, trustee emerita Beverly Walsh, brother, Brian ‘87; her nephew and niece, Evan and Lauren; grandmother, Bernice Fabian; stepfather, Clune Walsh and a large number of loving relatives.

A memorial service was held on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at Christ Church.

Department of Alumni Relations

Is your class up to the Class Cup Challenge?

The Annual Giving Class Cup is awarded

true demonstration of

to the reuniting class with the highest

the passion our class

percentage of participation in the Annual

continues to have after

Fund this school year.

all these years for our

alma mater.”

Alumni from classes having milestone

reunions this year (classes ending in

3s and 8s) compete for this award by

be your class! Make

making a gift, in any amount, to the

your gift by May 11

Annual Fund by May 11, 2013. The

to qualify. Gifts to the

winning class will be announced and

Annual Fund are tax-

presented with the award at the All-

deductible and can be

Alumni Cocktail reception on Saturday,

made online at www.

May 18.

uls.org/giving or by

contacting Mariana

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This year it could

winner. Class representative and Alumni

Gilbert at 313.884.4444,

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Ext. 412 or mgilbert@

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Alumni Events

New York City, Washington D.C.,

NYC: Sherita Rankins ‘01, James Tracy ‘74, Dawn von Bernuth ‘74 and event host Mary Warren ‘81

NYC: Peter Birgbauer ‘97 and Carrie Birgbauer ‘93

NYC: Trustee Lisa Black ‘77 and Kelley Hamilton

D.C.: Addele Siegmund, Elizabeth Niccolini ‘93 and David Niccolini ‘92

D.C.: Cressie Boggs and Jean Leach Barry ‘54 LIG

D.C.: Mark Gotfredson ‘00

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FL: Rex Ford ‘73 and Tom Henry ‘61 GPUS at the Palm Beach alumni event

Florida: On the Town

FL: Helen Graham ‘50 LIG, Forman Johnston ‘49 DUS, James Danaher ‘40 DUS, and Betsy Fox ‘78 in Vero Beach

FL: Palmer Heenan ‘39 DUS, Trustee George Parker and Verne Hampton at Vero Beach event

FL: Lore Dodge ‘68 GPUS, Joe Healey and Annette Geddes ‘63 LIG at the Palm Beach alumni reception

FL: Sally Riley ‘63 LIG and Bob Williams at the Naples alumni event

FL: Melinda Earle ‘59 GPUS, Joe Healey, Patricia Fox and Timothy Fox at the Naples alumni event

FL: Ann Opperthauser ‘49 at the Palm Beach alumni event

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A facelift of sorts

By Ron Bernas The portraits of Ella and Jeanette Liggett,

“There is a thick layer of grime on

one can see careworn faces. They look

the founding sisters of the Liggett School,

the surface. The painting is insecure,

like women parents would let educate

hung above the fireplace in the library

damaged and disfigured. There are

their children. That’s just what they were,

at the Briarcliff Campus for more than

localized areas of lifting paint which have

women who knew the education of girls

40 years and before that they graced the

resulted in paint loss. There are areas of

was important for the future of the region

walls of the Burns Road Campus in Detroit.

They were painted by Iris A. Miller

in 1927 and ‘28 and showed their age, so when they were moved over to our combined campus, we wanted them as bright and shiny as their new surroundings. So Head of School Dr. Joseph P. Healey asked art teacher Jim Pujdowski to look into restoring them.

Pujdowski found Ken Katz, a Detroit art restorer recommended as one of the best in the country, and this is what he had to say about the portrait of Miss Ella: “There is a thick layer of

Ella and Jeanette Liggett, founding sisters of the Liggett School and Head of School Joe Healey.

grime on the surface. The painting is

crackle in these areas. There is a concave

and the country. You may not see that

damaged and disfigured. There are

dent in the left central area....Treatment

visionary look in their eyes, but that’s

horizontal draws on the surface of the

would include securing the lifted paint,

what they were.

painting. There are numerous tears and

reducing the crackle and removal of the

punctures, specifically in the upper left

grime, followed by proper restoration

School library on Cook Road, just as

and along the left side. Treatment would

of damages. Lining the painting to

they cast their eyes over generations of

include repair of the tear, removal of the

a stiff support is recommended for

students at the Briarcliff Campus. They

grime and restoration of the damages.

archival reasons.”

are a vital part of our past, looking at

Lining the painting to a stiff support is

the future.

recommended for archival reasons.”

six weeks and the results are beautiful.

And about Miss Jeanette’s portrait:

The paintings are of elderly women and

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And that’s just what he did, it took

And now they watch over the Middle

Office of Advancement Associate Head of School for Advancement Kelley Hamilton Director of Publications Ron Bernas Manager of Alumni Relations Savannah Lee Major and Planned Giving Officer Cressie Boggs Annual Giving Manager Mariana Gilbert Advancement Communications & Special Events Manager Katie Durno Advancement Coordinator Trisha Shapiro Advancement Associate Sarah Gaines Campaign Communications Coordinator Lee Ann Gusmano Perspective Spring 2013 Editor Ron Bernas Photography Ron Bernas Art Direction and Graphic Design Lee Ann Gusmano

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