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Peter Brooks
  The story of your life in a few words. Tough assignment, but here’s a shot: THEN: Graduated from Kent; went to Stanford, where I rowed on the crew, studied in Germany, and stayed out of the war. Got sick of academia. Decided living real life was better than studying what everybody else said & did. Left Stanford after a couple of years, played guitar, pumped gas on the CT Turnpike, worked on farms in VT and ferry boats on Lake Champlain. Became a teaching naturalist with Audubon, got talked into going back to school. The English major got a BS at Cornell in natural resources in two years because he didn’t like being in school. Then educational nature center design & programs launch, in Englewood NJ; got talked into going back to school. Regional planning & landscape architecture at University of Pennsylvania; was throwing in law and business too – but that would require staying in school longer, so did the MS in two years & got out. Then forest resource planning for NY State in Albany. Loved the subject matter, hated the bureaucracy. After five years, it was either a PhD in resource economics or the stock market. The real world won out again. Went to work for Merrill Lynch in Albany and never looked back. That was 33 years ago. Now my oldest son is taking over, and I’m only doing a modest workweek there. NOW: Starting a Christmas Tree farm just south of Saratoga Springs NY and love it. Dug ponds, built stone walls, rebuilt a 200-year-old timber frame barn, plant about 500 more trees every year. Going to build the (replacement) farmhouse this year. Keeps me in shape and out of the bars. Still writing poetry; maybe will try to get published if I can find the time. A couple of years ago, stumbled on the fact that Jim Towne and I have lived within 10 - 15 miles of each other since 1978, and neither knew it. (Told him it’s because I stay out of court!) So we go sailing together. What a gift to recover a fragment of your past - which I hope to do more of at our 50th DHS reunion! Was married for 25 years; have been divorced for 19. Have three great kids who all moved away to explore the world, and have all recently moved back here. Married with children, so the way I look at it, I’ve got 6 kids, 5 grandchildren, with another on the way. Best part – they all like working at the farm. My simple plan is to live to 100 - with all systems functioning!  Send Peter a Message
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Richard Adams
Supervisor, Aircraft Maintenance (retired)
Widowed
1
After working for Northwest Airlines for 33 years, I retired in Aug 2005. Liz (Horton) & I relocated to Florida in 2003 (after 32 years in Atlanta) and settled in Indian Harbour Beach in 2005. Liz & I will be celebrating 35 years of marriage on Sept 9th. Liz is now working part time as a home health nurse...it gets her out and she has familiarized herself with the Melbourne area & met some very nice people.. Our son, Ben is a System Engineer with A1O Networks in Atlanta. He remarried in July of this year and now Liz & I are step-grandparents of two beautiful girls, Ashley 7 and Kate 5. With my free time and the great weather in Florida, I've taken up bicycling and I'm riding up to 200 miles a week. Do I miss the airlines?...Yes, but not enough to go back to work. It's nice not wearing a watch and not wondering if your next flight will make schedule. Send Richard a Message
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Leslie Corkran (Orloff)
Artist
Married
1
High School memories will be fun to rediscover. I lost my 1967 year book in a Hurricane many years ago, so I hope someone will have a copy at the reunion. My first love was art and now I can spend time painting, drawing and enjoying the outdoors. Opportunities to see the world and live in England are amongst my many adventures. Many years of hard work traveling for business in a Fortune 500 Health Care Coporation in Risk Management and HR. My first love was art, so I am now able to draw, paint and enjoy the outdoors. My daughter, Heather and her husband keep me busy babysitter for my granddaughter, Elizabeth age 8. My will be retired from the FAA, Safety Inspection Officer by August 19, 2017. I can't wait to see and talk with everyone. Send Leslie a Message
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Peter Jones
  I come back to Darien nearly every year for a brief, one hour trip down memory lane while doing a fine craft show at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich. Some things never change, others change dramatically. Half the homes on the road I grew up on have been torn down and replaced with huge mansions (not McMansions but the real thing...). Jem Lee Laundry and The Sugar Bowl are still there and haven't changed much, other things have morphed into places I don't recognize. We were all lucky to be raised in a location that put a high value on education. I wouldn't want to live there now, but I do have some good memories of that time. Much happier for having lived in Colorado for six years and Maine for forty four years. Others I know who have lived in Maine (John Okie, Creighton Drury, Sharon Duffield and probably others I don't know about) all agree that it is a GREAT place to live. I plan on coming to the 50th Reunion and my wife even said she'd like to come to it as well. What a hoot that will be. Hope to see some old friends there. My thanks and gratitude to Sharon for putting on this event for us all. Send Peter a Message
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Thomas Kelley (Zane Parker)
 
Real Estate Agent
Divorced
DHS - so many memories. I was a Menshevik wanting these two guys for our concert to raise money for our foreign student. The Bolsheviks of DHS wanted the We Five, a one hit wonder. I didn't go to the concert. Didn't matter anyway, I was the scared, shy, too sensitive, boring, guilt ridden Catholic kid who suffered from an inferiority complex and whose childhood friends had all moved away. The DHS Bolsheviks said those two guys "couldn't hold down a concert." Apparently they were right. Last I knew they were reduced to having to give a Free Concert in Central Park. I think their names were Simon and Garofalo, or something like that. Always like the sounds of silence. The Byrds and The Kinks. I also like the sound of Coach Batino who admonished us: "don't cheat your body." If you're still here Coach, I got something to show you. Haven't used Thomas Kelley since I took my acting name for my legal name in the late '70's. First went to University of Virginia right out of DHS and met Kellam there. Luckily for me, my parents threw me into a mental institution, so I had no chance of being in that car. I went to Kellam's once for one of his birthday parties when we went to Holmes School. I also visited David Mixter at his home. There by the Grace of God....... I got a great deferment for the funny farm, and got caught up in the radicalization of the times, for which I have absolutely no apology for. "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, NLF is going to win." And they did. Second college was Davis and Elkins in West Virginia. Managed to last over a year there till I got a chance to mark off one on my Bucket List - stand next to Fidel Castro in a sugar field. Parents paid for college funds dried up and I started my life as a working stiff. Hey, Vosburgh, I'll take you on for who has had the most shitty jobs. Rather than use my superior brain powers, very nicely cultivated in the Darien public schools, and I am forever thankful for that, I got on with a landscaping company and used my back muscles. I've always been a gym freak and to this day, I'm still a yard freak and will take on anyone with a shovel, a rake, or a hook. I do compost piles and solar lights like they are Sacraments. Then I got a Free Ride out of Darien, actually just like Vosburgh I was living in Norwalk, where the Darien expatriates seem to congregate, for a quickie to Denver and then onto Park City, Utah. I tagged along with an exec with the US Ski Team. Utah, was great then, but my Free Ride went back to Darien, and I stayed. I kinda found myself in Mormonland. Loved the dry climate and the place was so damn affordable and pretty layback for a theocracy. Then when I got into acting, I changed over from Tom Kelley to Zane Parker and never looked back. I'll just drop a few names: John Ritter: I got to tell him not to leave town. Really, really great guy. Margot Kidder: played her ex-con husband in one of her B Movies as they called them after her meltdown. Had a great Superman story for her but swore I would never mention that movie to her so she never knew I got to meet Marc McClure earlier. Russell Means: God bless him; an Indian with a good spirit. Got arrested for the shtick at Wounded Knee. We shared a love of Libertarian principles. And had a nice talk with this guy that seemed to be hanging around at a casting where I picked up my last part. It was Joaquin Phoenix. I did my scene with Janeane Garafalo. Along with Garrett, we're both on IMDb. Anyone else?? My real job was working in restaurants and that went on too long, but while you're nursing an acting career and a secretly hoping for a writing one, you don't want to mortgage your soul to a company that demands it. In the early 80's I took off for Hollywood to make it in the big time. I could write a book on how to do it all wrong. Atleast I should have contacted that guy who was the only 'guy' to survive on SISTERS. Hell, they had to blow up the cop on that show...... wonder what happened to that guy. Depeche Mode and Human League and just about anyone in the New Wave. Broke and getting nowhere, I bailed out of California and headed back to Utah. Finally made an honest woman out of her, and then we had a surrogate baby. My daughter, now 15, was not an accident, unless you count a guy getting on a plane, flying to Orange County, and jerking off in a cup, as an accident. One of the best things I ever did........ the daughter. Acting got good back in Utah, but it's tough to make a living in a marginal market so I started doing 'fixers' and was pretty good at it. Eventually I kinda hooked up with this guy who was going to build houses in the Austin area of Lago Vista. So I uprooted from Utah, after SAG sold out to the Mormons, and came out east to Texas. Hate the humidity, and then found that there was no chance of building houses. I bounced around, adding to my resume of more shitty jobs till I eventually settled down in doing the less back breaking work on flipping houses, and in my case, apartments and got my real estate license. I finally gave my muse the attention it deserved. I am planning on attending my 45th Reunion, the only one, and on my Bucket List is to kick Howie in the ass, metaphorically speaking....... or not. I got one novel done, six screenplays, and halfway through the second novel, only I stopped because I'm now writing an unauthorized autobiography of a baby boomer in the style Holden Caulfield all grown up and reflecting. So I should be there to pick your brains and steal your stories and corrupt your souls. Don't worry about me, the shy kid from Darien can hold his own now. And don't worry about Howie, as he seems to be doing okay. But when it comes to wordsmiths, if he can hack it, my money would be on Vosburgh. Looking forward to seeing all the girls I was secretly in love with back then, see who remembers me (remember you can't be disappointed if you have low expectations), I want to get a firm handshake from Bob Radocy, and have a nice cry for those we have lost and will someday join, Did I mention I'm writing a book and I will steal anything I can get. Linkin Park and Muse. BTW, here's a challenge for "the Toe", and Alan King, and Dana Lindsley, and Jean Seibert (Mason) and anyone else who fancies themselves a writer. I got less than a 100 pages of rough first draft of the book I'm working on now. I'll post if you do. I dare you. And...... I'll bring a racquet if anyone is up for a little tennis. Send Thomas a Message
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John Rogers
 
Architect
Married
1
My wife, Servane, and I just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary. We have one son, now 26, living in Boston. I have retired after working 30 years as an in-house architect for IBM and the State of Connecticut. Servane and I are living in Southbury, CT about an hour drive away from Darien, so if any out of town people are interested in that as a location during the reunion, we have spare bedrooms to offer.The only other reunion I attended was probably 1987. While fun to dance and laugh, 1987 did not seem so distant from 1967. But now, a 50 year reunion seems very distant with most people having started and ended their working life during that time and too many have sadly passed away. So now I am thinking of what I wrote under my year book photo: a Japanese Haiku. Butterflies beware the sharp needles of the pines in this gusty wind. Certainly, we have all encountered some gusty wind and have survived. I look forward to seeing you all again. Send John a Message
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Barton Knapp
Accountant
Married
3
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Harvey Cross
 
Business Development Manager
Married
2
Boy 1967 was a long time ago! Send Harvey a Message
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Paul West
Retired
Married
2
Hello Blue Wavers,Been out of touch save a call from Mark Koellmer for close to 30 years. Reader's Digest Summary: Graduated from Villanova Universiy in '71 and got a job with Chesebrough-Pond's Inc. Shipped to Rochester, NY to work for their Ragu Spaghetti Sauce Unit in finance. Got married in 1981. Still married with 2 children and 2 grandchildren. Company was acquired by Unilever. Made me CFO of Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics. Left in 1997 to join small Beauty Company. Bought Elizabeth Arden from Unilever in 2000 and became President. Retired in 2006 to Pebble Beach, Ca. There's more but enough for now! Send Paul a Message
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Maddy Franklin (Hadley)
Retired
Widowed
1
Hope to get to the 50th Reunion. Went to the 20th reunion but somehow got lost and never knew about the other reunions. Life has been good. After marrying Jon Hadley in 1971 we lived in MA until 1977. Then moved to Marietta, GA and have been here ever since. We have 1 son who lives in Greensboro, NC with his wife Megan and 2 daughters, Lola (4) and Evie (1 month). Over the years we've enjoyed a lot of travel. Unfortunately 2 years ago, my husband Jon was diagnosed with Cancer and passed in March 2016. So life has changed. I'm fortunate to have a wonderful support group of friends and family. Would be fun to see everyone. Send Maddy a Message
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