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1947Class Notes Archives----- From December 2011 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Edward Perry Gaskell shared this with us: ""Triste histoire. Geneviève, mon épouse de 57 années est décédée le 16 juin. Alors, impossible pour moi de rester seul à la maison. J'ai déménagé, et je vis juste en dehors de Washington dans un immeuble de retraite pour officiers de marine. C'est superbe, et ma fille habite à cinq minutes. Après un temps très difficile, je me suis remis, et je travaille maintenant à organiser et décorer mon appartement ici." Perry also added, regarding the photo we found (above) on his Facebook page: "The photo is fine, but doesn't explain why I am running in a 5k race. I was the only resident to enter! It was a fund-raising event to benefit the wounded soldiers from the war. They never expected an 83-year old ancien like me to enter. At least they have stopped bothering me to participate in the exercise classes! I am still struggling to organize my apartment after Thanksgiving with my son in Baton Rouge. Salut a tous les anciens, surtout a ceux qui sont plus agés que moi!" ----- From November 2010 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Edward Perry Gaskell wrote: "Attached is a poem I wrote for my local paper: The Old Book.....My latest project is transferring my extensive LP record collection to my computer to be able to use the music on my iPod. Classical and music from the 60's and 70's mostly." (To read Perry's poem, in both French and English, click on link below.) Videos of LFNY alumni on the internet: ● Joanna (Rogers) Macy talks about the concept of a 'Great Turning' ● George Steiner: An interview with the literary critic and writer ● Tanaquil (Leclercq) Balanchine (deceased, December 2000) dances in Afternoon of a Faun (choreography by Jerome Robbins) (Click on links below) ----- From December 2009 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Edward Gaskell (CDR,USNR, ret'd) sent us a poem entitled "THE COMMANDER, HOME FROM THE SEA" that can be read by clicking on the link below. ----- From January 2009 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Edward Gaskell nous écrit: "Congratulations to you on your email and the magazine. C'est dommage que mon age, la distance de St James à Manhattan, et la maladie de mon épouse ne me permettent pas de participer aux activités." ----- From June 2007 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Click on link below for a website that tells the story of "the legendary ballerina" Tanaquil (Leclercq) Balanchine ('47) (deceased). ----- From December 2006 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Edward Perry Gaskell, ‘47 sent his regrets for not being able to attend the AALFNY May 31st reunion in NYC, and wrote: "I am very sorry not to be able to attend the party. But then I imagine that not many of my classmates from the years 1942-4 will be there, or even remember me. Although I am still in touch with Kevin Egan, '48!" ----- 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"] ----- 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." ----- rom 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. |
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