1925
Bud Brown and Joan Ganz Cooney, the producer of the famous children's TV program "Sesame Street," were featured in an article in the February 14 issue of "Parade" magazine. The story, which was spotted by Coop Rhodes and mailed in for these notes, was titled "A Famous Pupil Honors Her Teacher." It starts when Mrs. Cooney was a 13-year-old ninth grade student in Phoenix, Ariz.
"He was good-looking, craggy and had an air of authority," she recalls, "But even more important, he did not teach what to think but how to think. He put me on the road that led to 'Sesame Street.' Back at North High in Phoenix in 1943 kids didn't talk much about the issues of the day, and they weren't accustomed to free-wheeling classroom discussions. Bud Brown changed all that for me. He really awakened my conscience. . . . He wanted to educate a person, not just teach a subject."
At the annual convention of school administrators in Atlantic City in February Bud and Mrs. Cooney both received the Golden Key Awardsr for 1971, an honor that salutes the importance of U, S. teachers in shaping the lives of outstanding citizens. Six educational organizations join in making the awards which consist of symbolic gold keys, plus $1000 to the teacher.
Bud is now retired from teaching and lives on a 20-acre ranch near Scottsdale. He and his wife run Friendly Pines Camp near Prescott, a summer ranch camp for boys and girls which is now in its 31st year.
Another classmate featured in a national publication in February is Bob Pike whose hobby is photographing and unusual gravestone inscriptions. The "Ford Times" had three pages of pictures from his collection and quotations from several others. Bob is chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages at Monmouth College in New Jersey.
The days of the Carnival Queen seem a long way back but we still have a remote connection. Linda Appleton of North Brook, Ill., and Wellesley College is this year's Queen and was the date of Bill Pollock '72, reserve quarterback on last fall's football team and also grand nephew of our Ken Montgomery of Chicago.
Richard Nye writes that the item in the February notes about the Spanish race was correct except that the race will be in 1972 rather than this year. Young Richard, class of '52, is chairman of the race committee for both the Bermuda race and the Spanish race. The letter continues: "This summer we plan to cruise over for another crack at the English races—Cowes week and the Fastflet race. One of the most interesting features of this racing is the international competition between teams of three boats from about 13 countries. We were on the American team which won in 1969 but the competition is getting tougher every year."
Some of our members unfortunately have had serious problems of health and one of these is Rodge Wyckoff. His wife Adeline wrote recently that "In 1960 Rodge suffered a heart attack and in 1963 a stroke. The Stroke left him with an extremely painful sensation in his left hand and a freezing sensation in his left side. When he told the doctor he could no longer live with this condition the doctor suggested a prefrontal lobotomy. This operation was performed and it left him mentally incompetent. He has been hospitalized for the past five years. Two years ago he fell and broke his hip and was on the critical list for three weeks. Since then he has suffered two kidney infections. I am sorry to be the bearer of such sad news but I thought you should know why your previous correspondence has not been answered." Her address is 401 E. Live Oak, San Gabriel; Calif. 91776.
Frank Osgood became ill in January of last year with ileitis or Crohn's disease, an inflammation of the small intestine. Medical treatment was tried during the summer but in the fall an operation for removal of the colon and part of the ilium became necessary. At last report he was doing very well.
Stub Dwinell resigned from full time work with the Fresh Air Fund in Langhorne. Pa., in 1967 and after concluding his consulting work with them last year he and his wife moved to the Tryon, N. C., area to establish a new home.
Whit Campbell '25 (second from left) whose son Tom '65 was married to MargaretHunt in Chicago last December 5, was joined for the happy occasion by classmatesTige Lyon (on Whit's left), Bob Borwell, Joe Murphy, and Ken Montgomery.
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