forty65, vol. i, no.  9        18 july 2005   ww.TJclassof1965.com

 TJ

 class

   of

 1965

more responses to previous Qs

John Jay Schwartz ( Richmond ) writes: “I served in the US Army from ‘69 to ‘71 after graduation from VCU. I was very lucky. After artillery OCS, instead of going to Vietnam , I was selected to help manage the logistics and good will of our government to the Israeli government when the US sold its first fighter jets to the Israeli Air Force. I also had religious duties as a Jewish Chaplain's assistant for Aberdeen Proving Ground where the Israeli military and civilians were based.”

Joe Segal ( Richmond ) and his wife Winfree marched for the Equal Rights Amendment while he was in law school in Tallahassee , Florida .

Arthur Cannon (FL) remembers that when he was in Richmond , he usually watched 4^th of July fireworks at CCV – but for the last 31 years, in Boca Raton , he’s caught them at Florida Atlantic University or from a boat in the ocean viewing FAU, Deerfield Beach , and at the Boca Raton Resort And Club.

Ann Cosby Williams (who just moved back to Richmond from Fredericksburg ) writes that two of her favorite TJ teachers were “Miss Lowance, who was hard but made freshman English in college such a breeze, and Mr. Wendt, the orchestra conductor.” Ann and Howard Horwitz were among our classmates who were in both the TJ orchestra and the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra.

we continue learning

Donna Buffenstein Jacobs retired in 2001 from being a math specialist for grades K-6.

(“Thank you, Mrs. Wanderer,” she says.) She

now lives in Garrett Park, MD, and Duck,

NC. She began working in stained glass several years ago and took up quilting when she was about to become a grandmother. 

Courtenay Welton (Alexandria), having discovered from his Army days and more recent travels that his high school Latin isn’t terribly helpful abroad, has been taking conversational French Classes at Northern Virginia Community College.

reflections

Susan Foster Stanley (Richmond) writes: “I have put off writing this because my memories of TJ (like many others I suppose) seem to be more like a wonderful snapshot that has faded with time but each opportunity you have to see it, strong positive emotions are felt. We were so fortunate to experience our high school days in the times that we did. The tight-knit TJ community provided an experience that for many others after us was very different.”

let us know

• What new things have you studied or learned to do in the last few years?

• If you are teaching or working at a high school, or if you have children now or recently in high school, what are some of the differences you notice between their high school experience and yours?

• If you are a parent, how has your parenting been similar to – or different from – your parents’ ways of parenting you?

          As always, thanks for being in touch!