1952

The 1952 news from Florida is that Bob Medvecky has opened his own office in Fort Myers for the general practice of law. Bob graduated from Harvard Law School and has practiced law for over 35 years.

A recent news clipping from a newspaper in northern Maine mentioned that "Rockport resident" Bob Binswanger received the honorary degree of doctor of humane letters in Brunswick last May. The clipping made no reference to Bowdoin College, probably because all Mainiacs know that Bowdoin is the only institution in Brunswick able to confer such an award. Congratulations, Bob! While often resident in Rockport, Bob and Penny also maintain a home in the Boston area where Bob has toiled since 1983 as headmaster of Boston Latin Academy. They were full-time Maine residents from 1976 to 1983 when Bob served as vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University of Maine system. After obtaining his master's degree and Ph.D. in education at Harvard in 1960, Bob worked in several federal service roles in education until he joined the University of Maine.

And while we are on education, word has reached us that Doc Dey announced his plan to resign at the end of the 1990-91 academic year as president and principal at Choate Rosemary Hall where he has served since 1973. In his message to the alumni, the chairman of the Choate Rosemary Hall board paid quite a tribute to Doc "Charley's vision, eloquence, and ability to implement have enabled Choate to develop a coherent philosophy and distinctive place among boarding schools. Under his leadership, we have charted our own course and we have prospered." That course wove its way through the merger in the early 1970s of the two independent schools, Rosemary Hall and The Choate School, into a unified campus, faculty, and board of trustees which now serves over 1,000 students. Among the many measures of progress under Doc's leadership, was the growth in endowment from $8 million in 1973 to $67 million now. He obtained his master's degree in teaching from Harvard after his U.S. Navy service. After Harvard, he returned to Hanover where he was dean of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation and one of the founders of A Better Chance Program. So in mid 1991 Doc and Phoebe will be changing the rhythm in their lives and pulling up stakes in Wallingford, Conn.

The sad news has reached us that Bob Nightingale passed away on June 13 at his home in LaGrange, Ill. Bob's wife, Theo, had passed away earlier this year.

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