28 • THE GRYPHON Summer/Spring 2021
CLASS NOTES 1950s Sandy Behrens ’54 writes: I’m still upright, move a bit slower, walk like a drunken sailor, but can still laugh. Had a hip replacement in November 2020 and was sent home with COVID. Long recovery. Still in my home with no plans to move yet. Hugs to all my classmates. Nick Fleck ’54 writes: Follow my blog Welcome to Sparrowhawk: Poetry, Photography, Notions, and Reflections on Teaching. My website: www.nickfleck.com. Mary-Lou Weisman ’55 writes: I’ve been a lifelong Darwinian, but I’m particularly cherishing his theory of adaptation in my old age. I used to swim a mile; now I’m busy adapting to one-half mile, with panting. As for “survival of the fittest,” that waits to be seen. I’m far more concerned about the survival of my country. I continue to teach memoir and personal essay writing at the local library. It’s one of my great pleasures. I have quit writing books, along with the anxiety that has always accompanied that passion. If a publication asks me to write, I will, but only if I like the assignment. I recently wrote a chapter about the writercartoonist Al Jaffee for the Library of America that’s publishing a book about MAD magazine. I’m still long distance in touch with Jane and Adam Stein and Nina Meyers Susman ’55. I think a lot and
fondly about my years at Cambridge — Mrs. Wash, the Mikado, Hal Sproul, Nat Wing ’55, and those wonderful morning assemblies where Carol Singer Rabinowitz ’55 presided with her clipboard, and we all joined our voices in song. Jane Burkhardt ’58 writes: I lived in NYC for many years and worked in book publishing. I moved back to Vermont and got my MSW in social work and worked for Planned Parenthood, Community Mental Health, and retired from visiting nurses and hospice doing counseling. I am now involved with the Bennington College Center for the Advancement of Public Action working on food insecurity. Cambridge School provided wonderful, understanding, and supportive teachers like Jack Rogers, Miss Elizabeth Belcher ’22 and Trove Rogers. Thank you, Cambridge School. Martin Skinner ’58 writes: I continue as well as expected for 81 years old. All of us remain free of COVID-19 — all the children and grandchildren. Have become even more of a recluse in the past year but did move to Montana to be near daughter and granddaughter.
1960s Ed Freeman ’60 writes: It’s been, and continues to be, a wild ride. Working full-time as a photographer/artist these
days, after a 30-year career as a musician and record producer. Visited 50 countries, worked on the Beatles tour, performed in Carnegie Hall, produced dozens of records (including “American Pie”), made a fortune, lost a fortune, took drugs, quit drugs, got sick, got well, came out, got outed on Fox News… It took a lifetime, but I finally found the man I love and the work I love doing. Life is a miracle and I’m endlessly grateful for every minute of it. Marc Haefele ’61 writes: Spring 2021, I had my 53rd Op-Ed in the LA Times. This one was about water resources. [I’ve also been] senior writer for Bermudez Projects, an East Los Angeles art gallery. Have been lecturing MA candidates at Cal State University, Los Angeles, on journalism in American History. Esther Pasztory ’61 writes: I am putting the finishing touches to a book of short (serious and funny) essays entitled, Something to Say: An Art Historian Looks at the Present. I had fun writing it the last few years. Also, seven videos are on YouTube, Esther Pasztory’s channel, “Ancient Americas, Etcetera.” Ignacio Bernal Verea ’64 writes: I was a senior in 1964. I went on to live my life in my nation, Mexico. Today I am 74, thanks in part to CSW. Deborah Myerson Kaup ’66 writes: My cousin Alice
Alice Myerson ’65 and her daughter Alethea Pace
Myerson ’65 died last June after a heroic battle with cancer. She had been the clinical coordinator of the Adolescent AIDS Program at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York. For many years she was involved in the Bronx arts scene. She is pictured here with her lovely daughter, Alethea Pace. I miss her terribly. Emily Davis ’69 writes: At the beginning of the pandemic shutdown, we were in New Zealand for a bat research conference. Our experience coming back to the U.S. was a surprise. Our saga started with Qantas canceling our flights about 10 days out and telling us we had no options. We went to Orbitz and bought flights on New Zealand Air for March 30. Then we headed back to the
