| Joan Grissette Crawford |
| Joan Grissette Crawford writes " It would be fun to see everyone, but unfortunately will not be at the reunion this time. With many business trips back and forth to New Jersey, my husband rewarded me with a cruise around that time. In a few words "what has happened to Joan"? Attended Skidmore College for two years after GS and begged my folks to let me stay in Venezuela and continue college there. Two weeks thereafter an uprising in Caracas closed down the University so off I went to Katherine Gibbs, NYC. Ended up in Miami, Florida working in the editorial department at THE MIAMI NEWS and attended the University of Miami. Married and divorced after 17 years with three wonderful children. Went back to school and found real estate! Was part of the opening of the first Century 21 in the county (Brevard-Space Coast area). During that time my husband-to-be and I opened up an antique store in the Melbourne village. Being both antique buffs and collectors of many things, we found our residences were popping at the seams. Did that for five years, married, traveled and bought a retreat in the Tennessee mountains...so had the best of both worlds...the beach and cooler weather in the summers! Moved from a condo to Merritt Island last year...an older house in the middle of an old orange grove...surrounded by water, peacocks, lizards and gorgeous oak trees. My recollections of GS are many. Even though I had bouts of homesickness, the good people, those scrumptions sticky buns (failed to get a demerit for riding dumbwaiter from Main 4th to the kitchen) and the busy routine made it all bearable. So glad I went! Our 118-year-old church in the middle of the Island, adult children and six grandchildren, gardening and volunteer work has kept us busy... with getaways in the summers. Yes, I have been blessed. So glad I logged on to the GS site. Renewed old friends, roommate (Barbara) and find it so interesting catching up with the whereabouts and news of everyone. Will be thinking about all of you and many good wishes for a successful and fun 50th reunion. As they say, "come on down!" |
| Rhoda Bunnell |
| "After college and an M.A. in English, I briefly taught high school English before joining the John Glenn presidential campaign. Thereafter I returned to Indiana University where I had a career as a faculty member and university administrator in the fields of honors education, teacher development, and recruitment and preparation of disadvantaged students. When I was 40, I earned a law degree, but then moved on to a long and fruitful retirement during which I pursued cultural interests inspired by George School friends and milieu. I have been able to travel to the Caribbean, Italy and China, and have had more extensive stays in Paris and Japan. I have developed my interests in art, both Western and Eastern, by visiting museums here and abroad. I have a love of music (classical, opera, jazz) and of theater and ballet (a big fan of San Francisco ballet). In 1987 I moved to Berkeley, California, and have been enjoying the Mediterranean climate and the natural, cultural, and culinary wonders of the San Francisco Bay Area: hiking, exploring, cooking, making friends. In the past few years I have shared lunches, good conversation, and humor par excellence with George School friends Elaine Martin James, Phyllis Longshore Barry, Sarah Hardy Eames, and Susan Grubb Roegiers. |
| John Harkins |
| " A few weeks after our graduation, I met Meg Weller '53, a day student I had somehow not gotten to know at George School. At Camp Onas we were assigned to work together with a group of children who sat together in the dining room and carried out their daily chores. Three times a day we were seated at opposite ends of a table with a dozen children in between us. We were married while I was still in college. This has proven to be the best decision in my life. We had two children and all seemed fine until we lost our son, Andrew,victim of a brain tumor at age 31. Daughter Kate has two sons who invite us to Grandparents' Day at their schools in Seattle. After college and appropriate degrees, we have lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Switzerland, following various teaching assignments. I began as a high school English teacher and wound up as a headmaster at a Quaker school. In between I taught grades 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,&12. My longest assignment was twenty years as Lower School principal at Germantown Friends School. More recently I was head of Friends School Mullica Hill which is in New Jersey. |