| Susan Grubb Roegiers |
| After Graduation from Smith College I landed in Greenwich Village and worked for one of the first air charter tour companies, an Italian and French partnership which offered me a job in Paris for a year and then granted my wish to work in the newly opened San Francisco office. There I met and married my husband Andre, the love of my life, and acquired a qazillion wonderful relatives, a heady mix of Belgians and Russians. We have two sons, one a heavy equipment operator who is devoted to off trail motorcycles and surfboards, the other a Costa Rican resident, married to a Coast Rican and with two adorable little girls and the owner of an English language bookstore which also publishes books and CD's. When our sons were growing up I volunteered to choose science books through the years at a fair given by Marin County Day School and worked at our local science museum, The Exploratorium. Later I attended the University of California in Berkeley and received a degree in teaching English as a second language and taught at the Canal Commmunity Alliance in San Rafael. I have remained politically active, joining the march on Washington, D.C. and hearing Dr. King speak, and, with my husband, demonstrating against the war in Vietnam and Iraq. I feel the next election is the most important in my life. My memories of George School are endless, but here are a few: Eagerly awaiting Mr. Evan's geometry class to see Cameron Hatfield's work with figures on the blackboard, all drawn with Cameron's stock of vividly colored chalk. Gamely trying to come up with the best opening sentence in Miss Robinson's fiction writing class and consistently losing to John Harkins. "Gone with the Wind". Thank you Danny Selznick. Joining a group of never-to-be-named gourmet friends to polish off the last of a delicious many-layered cake carefully carried up the dumbwaiter from the kitchen late one hungry night by the only dumbwaiter sized participant. I still have a faint elbow scar to show for it. The extraordinary hospitality showed our senior class by Jo Ann Abraham's parents during our trip to Washington, D.C. Pete Hess introducing me to the joys of lacrosse. The most vivid memory I have is watching the McCarthy hearings on a TV especially ordered by George School for that purpose. |
| Gertrude Reif Hughes |
| Gertie writes- "I still teach at Wesleyan (Professor of English and Women's Studies). I have 4 grown children and 7 grandchildren, with an 8th due to come from Korea by the end of May. I'm also involved in activities related to Anthroposophy and Rudolf Steiner: A Steiner study group meets at my house, and I'm president and a faculty member of the Rudolf Steiner Institute, which meets every summer for three weeks. This year it meets from July 4-24 at Bishops University in Lennoxville, Quebec. Visit www.steinerinstitute.org for more." "The George School years were rich and joyous for me. What grand times we did have with our KOB's, our wonderful classes, raffling off meager food in the gracious dining room, our stormy romantic lives, the bucolic campus. Lucky us." "Any G.S. classmates visiting Middletown or passing through are welcome to stay with me. 860-346-3675 ghughes@wesleyan.edu" "Good wishes to all for the next decade." |