Monica "Nickie" Bock writes in too!!

Dear Everyone!I'm not going to be able to make it to the reunion, but it is a real joy to see all the amazing postings on this blog. I've only just begun to dive into it all. I'm incredibly grateful to Bob S. for the e-mail reminders and the blog and to Ann V. for the long nostalgic phone call and all the effort so many have made to bring us back in touch. I’ve attached a recent family newsletter picture showing, from left to right, my daughter Thea (b. 1993), my son Tristan (born 1995) just before he cut his hair and grew into a teenager, my husband James Hughes (“J” for short,) and me. This was taken at Thea’s 8th grade graduation in June 2007. If you google “monica bock” you’ll find my website and can see images of the art I've been working on over the years. Contact info is there too, and I’d be happy to e-mail anyone the link to our newsletter, which has lots more pictures and news from the past five years of our academic/artist/householder/kid lives in Connecticut. Very sorry I won't be with you this coming week-end, but my best to everyone and I hope we keep up the connections and cross paths in the future...Peace, Nickie Bock

Kathy Daskal writes in!

And sends pictures!

Greetings everyone! People have been so great about sending news, I thought I'd drop a line too and say hello. Attached are pics from my thespian "avocation." I was in fact one of several Jewish nuns cast in the Sound of Music! The other snapshot is from Pippin - not as well known as Godspell, but written by the same person, Stephen Schwartz. I did recently actually get paid for being in a play (Thornton Wilder's Our Town) - not anything one could possibly live on, in fact one would wind up very quickly in debtors prison - but a milestone nonetheless!
By day I still lead the spartan, low-tech life of a National Park Service employee (I confess, someone had to show me how to scan these pictures, which were, yes, taken with film. But hey, I'm a park ranger not an IT
specialist- I'm impressed with Dirk V. who scanned half the yearbook). If you're ever in Frisco, stop on by to see the historic ships at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. It's a really cool park - one of the best.
Thanks to all those who have written in and sent in pictures! Dearest Lucy, fabulous publicity shot from your album cover. (I heard you were just in Chi.) Here in the Bay Area we are definitely Lucy groupies. It's been fun to catch up at Berkeley concerts with none other than Elaine Sahlins, Alex Miller, Danielle Lindheimer, and Leslie Crary! We even had the privilege of seeing Lucy perform on stage a few years ago with her late father Irving Kaplansky - also immensely talented - who accompanied Lucy on piano. I treasure the memories...... And Bob(by), I took another look at the Tammy Kohn birthday party pics - definitely not me in the picture - I'm thinking maybe Elizabeth Nickelopolous (sp?), Maria Scheckmann (sp?), perhaps? Anyone's guess.
Thanks for maintaining the blog - wonderful to hear about everyone! Best wishes, Kathryn (Kathy).

Clark Thompson cannot be with us...

But he did send this really cute picture with his daughter, Sophie!

Clark and Sophie can also be seen in our last reunion group photo.

You guys will be missed!

Last, but not least

Click on any of the pictures or anything on the blog to see a bigger copy!

Last Few

Getting there

Half way there

Even more Sr. Class

More Sr. Class

Senior Class Pictures

Thanks to Dirk who scanned the old yearbook. These are a hoot!

Mini-Reunion in NYC

Erica Zolberg writes:

Here's a picture taken at a recent mini-reunion in new york city between lucy kaplansky, maria hinojosa, elaine sahlins and erica zolberg, at the home of erica zolberg. you can see the back of the head of lucy's daughter, molly, in the foreground.
elaine and family came from piedmont, california on a family visit during spring break. by hook and crook (and it really took both) erica and elaine managed to lasso the ever-traveling maria and lucy to come over for dinner. one funny moment: erica and lucy showed up wearing the same outfit, right out of the 1970s: crew neck long sleeve white t-shirt and hip-hugging bell-bottom-blues. lucy even had the same hairstyle she did back then, erica cut short long ago.
lucy spends every weekend singing in far flung places.. she can give you the list. maria is often on the road for public tv's "now," and when elaine is not traveling to visit friends, she is assessing the value of hotel and resort properties all over the country. erica, until recently, worked for cbs news, but sadly was let go in the last round of cutbacks. evidently the part-time producer salary the company saved by letting her go has not calmed the troubled waters there. but having good friends around helped to calm erica a little bit. now she is heavily involved in a job search, and open to all new and exciting ideas.

My editorial comment is that none of these ladies seem to have aged!

If Susan Hack can come all the way from Cairo Egypt...

What is your excuse for not coming to the reunion?

Here's a pic of Susan from last summer, when Susan, her hubby Scott, and their daughter Sophie joined us for a brief vacation in the south of France--tres chic. Randy Fowler should be proud.

Hello - I am looking forward to seeing everyone this summer. Unfortunately, My wife (Pam) & kids (To the right is our 2007 holiday photo: Sarah 17, Anna 11 & Nick 15 + Baci) will be out of town. We live in Darien, IL but get into Chicago often.

We have been lucky enough to see David Cowan & his wonderful family a couple of times since the last reunion. See you all this summer. -Ed

Dirk Vandervoort is a "Yes"

Please welcome back Dirk to the fold after a 30 year hiatus. See it is never too late to come back.

Dirk tells me he is no longer running, but he does a mean mountain bike (easier on the knees and back). If I'm not mistaken in 1974/75 Dirk could run about a 4:40 mile, which amazes me to this day. And the late Peter Lortie kept right with him.

David Cowan

Before the glow of my first blog post recedes(see 4th grade photo), and perhaps more importantly, before Bob Solomon finds some scurrilous information about me from a search of the internet, I thought that I would post my own missive to class members.
For the last 20 years I have been a family doctor, the last 17 on Bainbridge Island, a quasirural, quasisububurban community near Seattle. Family Medicine is both a great privilege and, at times, a great burden. Certainly you learn how interconnected people are in a small community. And Bainbridge is truly a beautiful place. I tell people that it may be the only rural area from which you can travel to a major league ball park on public transportation. (alas not Wrigley and the beloved Cubs). In fact, one of my few complaints about the UHigh reunion is that is does NOT coincide with any Cubs home games, no doubt engineered by misguided fans of the tainted South Side Baseball team which shall remain nameless.
Where was I before my rant... oh, yes I was writing about Bainbridge. It lacks diversity and indeed, I miss that. It does carry the dubious distinction as the first place from which Japanese Americans were taken to detention camps during WWII, and the only place on the West Coast that really decried this illegal roundup of US citizens. An important lesson...still. http://www.kuow.org/DefaultProgram.asp?ID=14818
If you're interested I thought I would share a few more links to some things that occupy my thoughts when I have time for them:
A recent article about my take on "prevention" which has focused on children and school lunch:
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/bir/news/17111326.html
A link to archived talks and events from the Dalai Lama's recent 5 day stay in Seattle focusing on teaching compassion to our children (amazing):
www.seedsofcompassion.org
And a group that organizes international volunteer experiences, including families:
www.crossculturalsolutions.org
I hope to see many of you in Chicago June 6th.
Blessings to you.