CLASS NOTES Stay on top of all the latest Park School news and updates! To ensure you receive Park’s newsletters, please send your email address to alumni@theparkschool.org. 1958______________ Sue Womer Katzev is looking out on the Atlantic Ocean from her office window along the rocky coast of Maine. “I’m happy to report wonderfully good health at age 83, living with two boy cats, and thankful for local friends who keep me laughing. My life centers on publishing a three-volume report through Oxbow Books in the UK describing my husband Michael’s excavation of a 3rd century BC shipwreck whose excavation he directed off Kyrenia on the north coast of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. Our first volume came out last year (Google: Kyrenia Ship), and we’re now working to describe the remainder of the ship’s cargo and the architecture of its hull which was built exactly opposite of how we construct a wooden ship today. Though my body’s not up to long distance travel these days, I’m deeply grateful for the latest reunion photo of our class of 1958 and the smiles of classmates so dear to my heart. Hugs to you all, Susan” Charlie Little writes, “Not only am I indebted to Jacky Knopp for my general understanding of numbers, but as my soccer coach his tutelage inspired a lifelong and intense interest in playing (now retired), refereeing, coaching and watching "football," both men's and women's on an international scale. One could not have had a better, kinder mentor while starting out in the game. This summer, having saved our pennies and miles, my wife, four grandchildren, my son and his wife, went to the Women's World Cup in New Zealand. This was the third WWC for me and my granddaughter Georgia! Here (pictured above) are most of us (except me, the photographer and one granddaughter) at the game between Norway and the Philippines.” Pat Burns Richardson and fellow alumna Alison Clarkson '73 (pictured above) had lunch with Park's President Keith Frome at the Woodstock Inn in Woodstock, VT this past November. 1964______________ Judith Warren Little writes, “Starting in summer 2020, I have been part of a small team of researchers studying K-12 teachers' work during the pandemic. After nearly 800 teachers from 42 states expressed interest in participating, we selected 75 teachers in nine states to follow with interviews and surveys. We have issued several reports, but are now underway with a book to be published by Harvard Education Press.” 1972______________ John Jacobs just produced two new movies. Bill Rupp is playing gigs again! 1966______________ Lou Irmisch writes, “Pam and I bought a winter home in Longboat Key, FL! Our happy place! We still have a home in Williamsville. I have retired from the US Navy but still have a small medical practice and am a medical director at Blue Cross/Blue Shield. One grandchild, Jillian, lives with us and attends UB Law School. Her sister, Joy, is a junior at BYU. Next is Samuel, he is in 8th grade. Three boys are in Florida: Jax, Mason, and Wyatt! Four children live in WNY, and one in Florida. Pam and I are living the dream…WHAT A RIDE!” 1967______________ Marcel Guignard shared the following update: “Having been a member of the Class of ’67, it is now quite a long time since I graduated from Park School. After my AFS year in Buffalo I finished grammar school in Aarau in 1969 in order to get the Matura, the general qualification for university entrance. Then I started studying jurisprudence (1973 masters, 1975 bar exam, 1978 doctorate). Meanwhile, I worked as a clerk at different courts and in 1979 I got employed as a senior officer in the Justice Department of the Kanton (State) Aargau. In 1987, I was elected as mayor of the town of Aarau, the capital of the Kanton Aargau. This function I held over 6 four-year-terms until 2013. A great part simultaneously, I was a member of the Grosser Rat, the Parliament of the Kanton Aargau, and for 8 years I presided over the Union of the Swiss Cities. Since 1975 I have been happily married to Annelies who has been teaching German, French, and English for many years at a school for 6th to 9th graders. We have two grown children, a son and a daughter. I have deep memories of the year I spent in the US. I had the chance to live with a wonderful host family. At Park School, I appreciated the excellent teachers and the sympathetic, almost family-like atmosphere. At the class reunion at Park in June 2017, my wife and I had the opportunity to meet again many of my former classmates. With some of them, I have stayed in contact over all these years.” 1968______________ Lornie Walker reports, “My husband, Tom Craighead, and I are on a journey of a lifetime. We are traveling in Ruby, a 1991 custom built Lazy Daze RV (22ft). We’re leasing this old renovated girl from friends and traveling around the US and Canada for 4 months. We’re 6 weeks into our journey and are currently in Nova Scotia. We started from our home, Vashon Island (west of Seattle) and have hit many 31
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