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Jill Barrett - 9/17/06
I am happy to say that I was able to make contact with some classmates that I have not heard from in years. It has been fun. I was able to visit with Jane Cowin after about 25 years. There is so much the same and so much different. It was a thrill to do some catching up.
Jill

Special
Doug Foy is being honored at a benefit on April 13, 2006 at the Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston, MA by the Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars. He will receive the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service. Past recipients include Sen. James Baker, Paul Volcker, Betty Ford, Pres. Clinton, William Cohen, Sen. McCain, etc. I attach a brief bio and ticket/sponsorship form. I am planning on going. Let me know if you have any interest.

Stephen L. Hopkins, Esq.
Certified Civil Trial Attorney
Braff, Harris & Sukoneck
P. O. Box 657
Livingston, New Jersey 07039
973-994-6677 x115
973-994-1296 Fax

We got this from Karen Dignes along with a great BIO...where is yours...send it in!

December, 5, 2005

Hi Don- Thanks for the e-mail about the web site- what a fantastic job he did on it! I did send a thank you e-mail after browsing happily for almost an hour.

Well, I obviously didn't make it to the 40th reunion, maybe I'll be more organized and better able to travel by the 45th or 50th. Since I don't find myself on the web site, I guess I never sent you any info on me, so here goes- use what you think would fit in:

Karen

John Parman - December 8, 2005 - Dear Classmates,

It was very interesting to read all the bios on the new website, and see all the photos. I was particularly grateful to Luis Patiño for including a photo of the entire Patiño family (to whom my fond regards), and to read his mother's letter. (Although I never studied Spanish, you inevitably pick it up living in California).

On my end, my oldest son Michael's wife had her baby in mid-September, so we join others of you in becoming grandparents. A photo of the boy is attached. He lives in Hong Kong, but I will see him in a week when they all arrive for Christmas. My second son John is now working with Interfaith Voices in Washington, DC, a non-profit that does a program on comparative religion broadcast over mostly NPR-affiliated radio stations. He got this job because, as a reporter for BBC Asian Service in the UK, he did a "special" on Hindi New Year (which is celebrated in November). And speaking of which, my daughter Elizabeth leaves for a semester in Hyderabad, if I've spelled that city correctly, in India soon after Christmas. My third son Ross interned with the Attorney General of Pennsylvania this past summer, in Philadelphia, although he's not yet a law student (as his law student colleagues constantly reminded him).

In the past few years, I've remet Judi Benjamin, daughter of our guidance counselor at MLHS, Mr. Benjamin, and Fred Schreurs, now the editor of Premiere Magazine, who wrote for the Mountaineer way back when. Judi lives in Menlo Park and Fred lives in LA. I'm also still in annual contact with Barbara Tonkin, who stopped off in SF eight or so years ago on her way back to Perth, Australia.

Empty nesters that we are, we're off tomorrow for a week on a beach north of Puerto Vallarta. It's a nice change not to be bucking the holiday crowds.

Don Clarke - 1/7/06

I just read in the morning paper that the Baby Boomer generation (we are the leading edge) is turning 60. Sounds like some kind of cruel joke. Well hey its just a number anyway. Besides, Mick Jagger is 62, which makes me feel like a kid.

6/18/06

It was good to see the 1964 MLHS website up, too. Thank you for hosting both these sites. Here's some news from my end.

Invited to a conference in New York in early May, I prefaced that event with a short trip to Paris and London, two days in each city, to see the Pierre Bonnard Show, visit the Orsay Museum, and take in the Modernism show at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Arriving in New York on May 1st, I also worked in the newly expanded Morgan Library and MoMA. Lots of culture, in other words. I came back to Berkeley for a dinner party with friends from Tokyo, one of whom snapped the accompanying photo of the early evening view from my back deck - a wet spring meant a profusion of roses. On this end, I also visited the new de Young Museum for the first time to see an exhibit on the Arts & Crafts movement that the V&A originally put together as the predecessor to the Modernism show. The de Young, which is in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, was designed by Herzog & de Meuron.

I went there on an overcast day that made it a bit of a hulking presence, but it has some good moments. The collection is mixed bag, however - the old de Young was paired with the Asian Art Museum, now relocated to the Civic Center (in the former Main Library, renovated by Gae Aulenti of Orsay Museum fame), a much stronger collection. The de Young is still worth seeing, though, and easy to access via the N-Judah tram from downtown. (You get off at Ninth Avenue and Irving and walk down Ninth Avenue and into the park.) The best part for me is the terrace that looks out toward the Japanese Tea Garden, hidden in the trees - a beautiful sight. There are two reviews and many photos of the de Young in the "BIM" issue of LINE (www.linemag.org), at this writing still the current issue. (After that, look in the archive.)

- John Parman