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1943 to 1949Class Notes ArchivesPromotion '43 From November 2004 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Betsy Jolas wrote and invites her classmates to visit her website: http://www.betsyjolas.com/ In Memoriam **Eléonore M. Zimmermann ('49) informed us that her good friend Alix (Hamburger) Deguise ('43) passed away. Eléonore wrote: "Alix, who had a truly remarkable career worth mentioning in your newsletter, was a friend, a person I was very fond of and admired." Eléonore sent us a notice from a Connecticut newspaper which can be viewed by clicking on the link. ............................................... Promotion '44 From November/December 2000 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Jacques Regard wrote from Spain «By chance, I came upon a copy of your April newsletter. Please accept the sincere congratulations of an old '44 alumnus. I am certain that many grads have felt the need for a nostalgic Who's Who listing the students who have attended the LFNY since its start in 1937.Perhaps a CD database could be developed and successfully sold!» From July/August 2001 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Juan Alvarez de Toledo wrote the following letter after his visit to the 95th St LFNY in Spring 2000 : "Cher Lycée, Merci pour ton accueil chaleureux lors de mon passage chez "nous" fin avril. Soixante ans n'auront terni la vivacité d'aucun souvenir de tes murs et tes habitants. J'ai été particulièrement touché par la lettre d'Esther Huisman '43 et d'y retrouver mon nom parmi ceux des personnages de mon enfance. La disparaition du cher M. Brodin ne pouvait pas m'étonner mais j'ai eu le coeur serré en revoyant son élégante silhouette descendre le grand escalier. Voici quelques années, j'ai écrit quelques souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse. Une échange de lettres avec M. Brodin remontant à mars 1982 (il demandait qu'on lui écrive et parle du temps passé du Lycée) m'encourage à vous adresser une copie de ces souvenirs, où je parle beaucoup du Lycée et de quelques visages encore très présents." Les souvenirs de Juan sont intitulés "l'Agreste Minot." From March/April 2002 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Gabrielle Griswold writes us : " I started at the Lycee in 1938 when the school was only three years old, and I can remember quite clearly who most of my classmates were. Among them: Christiane Donat, Pauline Frassati, Greta Unger, Pierre Grelet, Charles Haines, Ethan Davis, Gerard Tanqueray, Georges Gonod, Francois Lee, Marcel Lavignette, and one or two others. After I skipped 4ème, my classmates were Eleanor Cramer, Gloria Alvarez, Elizabeth Bertol, Esther Huisman, Maurice Raviol, Jacques Regard, Ludmilla Alexeiff, Marcel Monory, Michel Guggenheim, Jean Alvarez de Toledo, Jean-Pierre Petolas, Raoul Grenade -- plus several others. In one of those two grades there were also Claire Nicholas, Bonita Boomer, Jacques Changeux, François Pardo, Jacques Regard, Natasha Dorfman, Pierre Monsarrat, equally classmates of mine at some point or other. In some of the other classes of the time, names I remember are those of Jacqueline Dutacq. Jean Arabo, David Leach, and René de Chambrun. Some of these people may even have come and gone prior to 1940. I know that Christiane Donat and her older sister, Odile, returned to France at some point during my first Lycée year. I had been friends with both of them. We corresponded for a time after they left, then lost track, and God knows whether they even survived World War II. I have often wondered about them. [My brother] Arthur Robbins Griswold Jr., two years younger than I, also attended the Lycée during the same years I did (1938 to 1941 or 1942). He died some years ago. One further note: my mother, Gabrielle Krazewska Griswold, taught English at the Lycée during, I believe, the same years my brother and I attended school there." From Winter2002/2003 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Gabrielle Griswold writes: “Yes, I am still a full-time staff writer (not a reporter) for our local weekly newspaper, The Mountain EAR. I take photos for and write: feature stories, personality profiles, history stories, art stories, crafts stories, animal stories, school stories, seasonal (notably Christmas) stories, play reviews, veterans' stories, technology stories, some business pieces and some (generally few) news stories, plus a few other miscellaneous things besides. Our paper's circulation is roughly 15,000, (probably more during the summer season), and we recently won a New England Press Association award in the "General Excellence" category -- the first time we ever entered the competition!....I love my job, which comprises a great deal of variety and a pleasant balance between time spent at the computer and time spent on the road taking photographs and doing interviews. I meet some fabulous people, learn their life stories, am tied right in to the community and its activities, and am in the fortunate position of always learning something new, which I relish. The job keeps me mentally stimulated and, I believe, helps preserve my youthful spirit. (Isn't it nice that one can write at any age?) It is also a considerable satisfaction at the end of each week to know that at least 15,000 pairs of eyes will see the result of my efforts! I am formerly married, presently divorced from Boston attorney Jerome Facher. (In case you read the book or saw the movie "A Civil Action," he was the lawyer who represented the corporate "villains" in the case.) Actually I was Gabrielle Facher during my marriage and only returned to my maiden name after my divorce. I don't know if I ever told you that I spent the decade of my 20s living and working in Paris and London, first for the Marshall Plan, then for its successor agency the Mutual Security Administration, and finally for N.A.T.O. (before it moved to Brussels).” ● Elisabeth (Bertol) Moon wrote and told us that she is still in close contact with her childhood friend and classmate Dorrance (Velay) D'André '44 and had been in contact for many years with Esther (Huisman) Asper '44 until she passed away three years ago. Elizabeth and Gabrielle Griswold recently contacted each other thanks to the AALFNY “Find a Classmate” service! From Winter 2003-2004 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Maurice Raviol writes: "Married 1954. Still married to the same woman! I have one son, Michel, who attended the LFNY in the sixties & seventies. Now he’s a grandfather of two beautiful girls." ● Gabrielle Griswold shares this with us: “I continue to work full-time as a writer on many different topics (arts, crafts, history, drama, business, farms, animals, personality profiles, and some news) for the local weekly paper.” .................................................... Promotion '46 From March 2000 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Paul Lochak est venu visiter le Lycée en Novembre’99. From "Printemps 2002" LFNYMagazine: ● Bertrand Bonavita: “En retraite de la Marine Nationale à Paris et heureux d’être le grand père de trois élèves actuels du Lycée Français .” ............................................. Promotion '47 From November 1999 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Lucette Newman Compagnon (mariée avec Michel Compagnon, ’49, trois enfants) habitant Boston, est venue visiter le Lycée avec Colette Newman Sluys ’52 (mariée, habitant Paris, un fils). Elles envoient le bonjour à tous les anciens qu’elles ont connus. From November/December 2001 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Anne Boulin Robertshaw reported In a recent phone call with Alessandra Gagliardi '86: "I had 5 children: 3 boys & 2 girls. My oldest son is an art consultant. I have 8 grandchildren. I worked as a decorator and my hobby is still redoing old houses. I now volunteer on projects such as re-doing school classrooms and a convent that used to be my husband’s old family home. I have a long history of volunteer work. I served as President of the Women’s Club of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art and I volunteered for area hospitals and libraries. One day not too long ago, while antiquing, I saw a painting that was in a very familiar style. The artist was my old classmate, Mrs. Consuelo Eames. I tracked her down and the two of us have exchanged Christmas cards for the last fifteen years. Also, while on a trip to Paris with the Frick Museum in Pittsburgh, I saw another familiar face: that of my old teacher, Jacques Habert, who was serving as a senateur for North America after a long period working as an editor at France Amerique." From November 2004 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Anne (Boulin) Robertshaw ('47) wrote and told us that Marie-Claude (Boulin) Solvay ('46) lives in Brussels and has an apartment in N.Y. and that both Léon Lambert ('46) and Françion (Garreaud) Sonnery ('46) are deceased. She also told us that Tanaquil (Leclercq) Balanchine('47) "pursued a career in ballet which she attained. She was a prima ballerina with George Balanchine whom she married. Unfortunately at the peak of her career, she came down with polio which ended her career. Her husband eventually divorced her, and I believe she wrote several books, some on cats. I believe she is deceased." [Editor's note: Anne is correct. According to "FactMonster" on the Internet: "Tanaquil Le Clercq: French-born, willowy ballerina who frequently and gracefully performed the works of Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine, to whom she was once married. She contracted polio in 1956, at age 27, and became paralyzed from the waist down. In an eerily prescient performance in 1944, Balanchine choreographed a short piece in which he played a character named Polio, and Le Clercq was his victim. Died: Manhattan, 12/31/2000"] ................................................. Promotion '48 From November/December 2001 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Audrey Clark-Kelm writes: "I left the Lycée in June of '43, having attended for 3 years. I had completed 4ème, but riots were hitting NYC and my parents put me in a school in the country. I met my husband of 53 years at McGill University French Summer School. We built our Spanish-style home on a hill in Playa del Rey, California overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the Marina del Rey and the Santa Monica Mountains. I graduated Cum Laude from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. I served as Vice-President of Brookside Savings & Loan in Los Angeles. We've been blessed with 2 daughters and a son, and 10 grandchildren. Currently I'm owner-manager of a multi-family apartment complex in Denver, Colorado and hope to slow down and smell the roses one of these days. My knowledge of French was a blessing when we traveled in 1964 with our two daughters for three months through 14 European countries, including 5 Communist-ruled countries which refused to acknowledge the English language. We owned the first Travel Agency in Playa del Rey, which gave us the opportunity to travel all over the world. My last trip was to India and Nepal in '99 where I attended the 17th Annual Polo Match where the players rode elephants, not horses. Life's been good and we're happy to enjoy good health. As for hobbies, the study of healing the body through proper nutrition, supplements, etc. and the study of the mind and how it operates, are my most pre-eminent ones." ............................................................ Promotion '49 From March 2000 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Michel Kadinsky-Cade habite a Chicago et est en contact avec Paul Lochak. Il espère voir apparaître eventuellement un annuaire des anciens élèves. From February/March 2001 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Jean-Pierre Radley is alive and well half-a-mile west of the original Lycée, retired for some time from the absurdities of commerce, now renting out his brains to those who need help, advice, and even hand-holding in connection with computers running on Unix.Tout cela à part, sa santé est bonne, et il vient de fêter son 69ème anniversaire, ainsi que le 66ème de son frère Philippe '52; cela c'est passé à un diner offert par leur mère, qui ne se permêt pas d'être encombrée par son age (92!). From Winter 2002/2003 AALFNY Newsletter: ● Eleonore Zimmerman emails us: “I have lost contact with all my class mates. Of course, I was at the Lycée for only one semester, which means I had time to become close friends only with two or three. But it was a small, quite close-knit class, with many people I liked. I got my second bacho in 1949 (obtaining the first mention "Très Bien" in the Lycée's history, I was told at the time!). Any e-mail you may have of people in that class would be welcome.” From November 2004 AALFNY Newsletter: ● DECES: Sebastien Laurentie ('49) shared this with us: "Cher amis: Triste nouvelle. Jacques Rouxel ('49) est mort il y a quelques jours. Il etait en premiere et en math-elem de 47 a 49. Je crois qu'il est retourne en France apres le bac et qu'il a fait HEC. Il a connu une certaine notoriete dans les annees soixante grace a une emission de tele "Les Shaddok", sorte de dessin anime loufoque. Le deuxieme principe de la logique shaddok est: "pourquoi faire simple alors qu'on peut faire complique?", remarque que s'attiraient certains eleves de philo lorsque notre prof, Alyette Sotiroff, rendait les copies. Preuve que les etudes sont utiles." To view further details from Le Monde.fr of April 27, 2004, click on the link. |
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