Peace Quilts on display to celebrate Peace Day 2013
PHOTO BY LISA D’ORAZIO
NOTES from Friends
Share Your Alumni/ae News
Friends’ Central School encourages all alumni/ae to share news in the “Notes from Friends” section of Quaker Works. Send us your photos! Digital and print photos are accepted. Photos will be returned upon request. To contribute, email communications@friendscentral.org or write to Editor, Quaker Works: The Magazine, Friends’ Central School, 1101 City Avenue, Wynnewood, PA 19096. (All alumni/ae notes are edited for length, grammar, and content.)
1937
Diana Foote Lawrence writes, “I can’t believe I graduated 77 years ago, when Barclay Jones was Headmaster and Martha manned the telephones and knew everybody and everything! Who are the other survivors? I live in a military retirement community near Fort Belvoir, VA. I play bridge and take my brain for a walk every day.”
1947
J. Richard Relick reports, “I am off to Ecuador the end of February, it is a scouting trip. I am interested in finding out if the city of Cuenca is a good place to live while I spend some time in the Amazon basin and discover what Darwin found so interesting in the Galapagos Islands.”
1948
Mary Beth Griffith Berggren was made an honorary trustee of the Columbus Museum of Art. She has volunteered there for 40 years in many capacities, including president of the Board of Trustees. She writes, “Little did I know when Hobson Pittman asked me to photograph his paintings that the visual arts would become one of the joys of my life.” Mary Beth and Ron have lived on five acres of land on the Columbus reservoir 20 miles from downtown for 25 years, and she says, “The view of the water and the quiet is good for the soul.” Their grandkids attended Ohio State University, and Marianne Colville Parkinson and her husband Bruce have visited them for many years to see an OSU football
game. Mary Beth comments, “They have also attended some of our grandson’s lacrosse games with us when he was an undergraduate at Dickinson College. I will be forever grateful for the outstanding education I received at FCS. It is truly a gift that keeps on giving.” Mary Beth kept up with Bernice Woerner, Liza Blackburn, and Ann Whitcraft until their deaths. She says that when Liza and Ann came to an OSU-Michigan football game, after the victory, Liza said ‘Dearie, of course you are going to the Rose Bowl.’ So they did.
1950
Marlee Chandlee Turner reports, “Hi from Texas where I am visiting my son Steven, Ann, and 12-year-old granddaughter, Hope. I enjoy Dallas Friends Meeting, as well as my home Meeting, in Portland, Maine, where we are very supportive of our Friends School of Portland. In summer, I enjoy running my Northern Pines Bed and Breakfast (norpines.com). Come visit me in Maine!”
1952
Joan Hoover Hellwege says, “Conrad and I continue to enjoy life in Sarasota. Our son and family live in Gainesville, and daughter and family are just 20 minutes away. Since we have ended our world travels, we have discovered cruising; Ft. Lauderdale is a convenient starting point. We are still very involved in volunteer activities.”
1954
Elizabeth Osborne is preparing for upcoming exhibitions at the Delaware Art Museum and The Michener Museum. Liz says, “I enjoy being a grandparent to Imogen Steed, daughter of Audrey Osborne Cooper.”
Chantal Citot-Rocke writes, “I am still in touch every year with Donna Hayes-McIver Edwards ’55, who was my American sister, and with Edward Farraday (Clayton’s son). Up to this year, I was sharing news with Maudie Moore Underwood. Her daughters have come to Paris, and we have met with pleasure.” She says to her 1954 classmates, “If you come to Paris and still remember me, make a call, and we can have a walk through the city. I wish you all a successful Reunion.”
1956
Alan Wolf survived robotic heart surgery on March 28, 2013 and says he feels great and is taking care of his wife, who had open heart surgery. He shares, “Playing lots of music, work out a lot, do motivational speaking (thank goodness for weekly Meeting at FCS). We opened trade with Main Land China in 1972 at a secret meeting in Canada at the Chinese embassy. Now writing my own book: The Life and Times … Loved FCS. Two wonderful grandsons, one granddaughter (also wonderful), and middle son has 24 platinum records, 95 albums, and his website is Wolfedelic.com.” He also says, “Yes, coming to the Reunion.”
