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Tom Kasberger and Nancy Jaquith Kasberger used beads to decorate an orange square on which they had put "44".

News

From Patrick McCarthy (’44): Patrick and Patricia McCarthy will be celebrating our 62nd wedding anniversary on 4/3/10. Our reception was at Drumlins, where we have many fond memories dancing and skating. We had another great year at the Empire State Senior Games at Cortland NY. We won 7 medals - 6 gold and one silver. Patrick also won the S. Berlin NY open horseshoe tournament, pitching against competitors 27 years and up, and the NYS horseshoes elders class championship at Camden NY this year. We are looking forward to 2010 to compete.

From Barb Crandall Lipe (’44), Barb Lonergan Coughlin (’45), Annie Dawson O’Malley (’45), and Pat Stellman Geoffery (’44):Our Clubhouse (written by Barb Crandall Lipe. On a recent, windy, snowy day in February, four very, old, very good friends got together for lunch and REMEMBERING good times, happy memories of high school days at Nottingham in the Forties during and after World War II! We had celebrated the End of the War in the Atlantic and later, in the Pacific, specifically, Japan… Our celebration, was first, a prayer in Church, and then a final celebration for us took place at EAGLE BAY and outside the TRADING POST, OUR NUMBER 1 Hangout!!! We shared so much in those years and the ones that followed, that we are today still special people because of those experiences! And grateful for them!!

From Tamara Rackson Lipson (’44):
What pleasure to read this year’s edition of The Connection! It was well-organized and filled with interesting information. I recognized names from my ancient class of ’44! (Yes, I’m still alive and continuing to thrive. “Use it or lose it” is my mantra, and it works.) Am leaving for Berlin next month to attend a symposium on unification, then in September I’m off to Egypt. Quentin Kopp being honored in October, was a classmate, a neighbor on Ellis Street, and a provocative Independent State Senator from my adopted state of California.  Kudos to you all for your good work.

Pat McCarthy (’44) writes that he and Patricia are looking forward to the 65th reunion. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary April 3rd. They won seven more gold medals in the 2008 Empire State Senior Games, competing in mixed tennis and mixed badminton, men’s tennis doubles, singles horseshoes and badminton.  They hope to compete again in 2009. Pat still has his Nottingham Varsity block letter sweater and it still fits!

June 17, 2006

Pat (’44) and Patricia McCarthy won 10 medals – 7 gold and 3 silver, at this year’s Empire State Senior Games in Cortland competing in badminton, tennis, and horseshoes. Pat qualified for 2007’s Senior National Games in Louisville.

Tamara Rackson Lipson (’44) was surprised on an Elderhostel trip to Prague in May 2006, when she found that another member of the tour group was a Nottingham graduate: Stuart Lerman.

Pat McCarthy (’44): My wife Patricia and I have won many medals at the Senior Games at Cortland, NY, this year. It is hard to believe at the age of 81 it happens. Patricia will be inducted into the Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame October 22, 2007. What a great education I received at Nottingham even though I had to make a bus transfer to get there. I was supposed to go to CBA.

Barbara Serlin Stern (’44) of Poughkeepsie, remembers her friend Marty Laforse, who died in May, 2007. She saw him at their 50th reunion of the combined ’44 and ’45 classes. “Much to my surprise, I learned that Marty was living right near me in Kingston, NY.” He was about to start teaching a class on jazz at the Center for Lifetime Study in Poughkeepsie. She signed up for the class and other classes he taught after that. She enjoyed his funny asides about Nottingham, Miss Bush, and Syracuse. Marty had been a history professor at Ithaca College, SUNY New Paltz, and a college in England. “He lived a full life, a loving father, grandfather and husband”.

Obituaries

Delores “Dee” Parmenter Davis (’44), 81, of Manlius, died May 21, 2008. She retired in 1993 after 43 years as Executive Assistant to the President and Assistant Corporate Secretary at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Central New York. She also served on several boards and did volunteer work. She is survived by her sister-inlaw, Shirley Reynolds, and many friends.

Jerome North (’44), of Syracuse, died in January, 2007.

Dave Von Sothen (’44), 81, died on August 12, 2007, in Washington DC. He was a broadcaster who won two local Emmy Awards in 1962 for a documentary about Griffith Stadium, former home of the Washington Senators. He later worked for the CIA on an experimental television workshop which created video intelligence briefings for the White House and State Department. He is survived by a son and two grandchildren. His wife of 40 years, Anne, died in April.

Kenneth N. Viau (’44), 79, of North Syracuse, died November 9, 2006. He served in the US Navy from 1944 – 1946. He retired in 1989 after 43 years at Crouse Hinds. He and his wife were dedicated volunteers for WCNY.



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