Thomas came to the Villa, from Rome, for his senior year only, joining his younger brother Bob.
After the Villa, Tom attended Georgetown and has practiced law for the federal government -- specifically, the U.S. Army. He recently became a grandfather, which accounts for this photo of Tom at a park. The cropping of the photo is unfortunate and hardly fair. (We have another photo here.)
In letters to this office, it seems Mr. Booth still has many of the qualities we recall from Fribourg. He retains an interest in music, though his tastes seem little evolved since 1968. He recently attended a Eric Clapton-Steve Winwood concert and, earlier, was witness to the Cream reunion in New York City.
One may recall that these musicians were all the rage 40 years ago.
He still follows politics and literature, persuading a fellow Villa alumni to read all of Proust. (He has been forgiven)
Booth confesses to limited technical ability, which is clear from uneven nature of his notes to this office.
He and his wife Mary live outside Washington, DC.
Another gem for our photo archives, from the good offices of Brian Hedges.
it's been 50 years since this photo was taken.
-- the editors
Our offices were sent this picture of Rick Walker and Thiery Curtis, taken in early June in Rangeley, Maine.
Both Rick and Thiery are members of the -- seemingly ageless -- 1967 class.
Mr. Walker reports that Thiery spent 28 years in the Air Force, retiring as a colonel. He now works for the forestry service in Washington D.C. and lives in Mason Neck, Virginia.
Thiery was visiting Mr. Walker with his wife, Torunn.
Our offices recently received this note from Jim Kelly, villa class of 1969, in response to a reminder that it's been 40 years this week since that group was graduated from Fribourg.
One of our editorial staff remembers the spring of 1969 was marked by earnest discussion about the relevance of our education, against the backdrop of the tulmult of political upheaval in the United States and elsewhere..
Mr. Kelly's reminisces are here:
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A special pause and quiet moment for those of us who didn't make it this far...
Tom Hanlon
Geoff Matre
Mike Leighton
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See you later dear friends. Amen.
Sounds like a Beatles song ... " It was forty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper told his band to play... "yea yea I know that just sounds..
Thanks to all of my classmates for helping get me through those two years at VSJ.
Thank you Steve Schoeppler for meeting me at the train station when I came to visit the Villa that first time.
Thanks to the men who were our educators. Where are these men now? : Mr. Donleavy, Brother Dobner, Father O'Shaughnessy, Mr. Storm, Brother Boschert. I think I am forgetting at least one. Hmmm Physics, Brother Droste, yes, for the example that I still use on "how to make water wetter".
A special thanks to Mr. Prozzi for all the leg lifts and sit ups that have help me walk and run the rest of my life. And thanks to Brother Fred Fuchs (and the rest of the team) for letting me play basketball even though I couldn't make a basket if my life had depended on it.
Bossuet:
Thanks for the third floor door rooms that helped give great distance to the bottle caps sailed from that high.
Stealth and midnight trips to the wine cellar. Whose idea was that?
Music to wake by. Whose idea was that?
John Akers and Willie Boom across the hall every morning for a whole school year.
John with a small squirrel cage fan, just enough to keep the air moving. Very important!
Vernon Miller -- great roommate -- he put up with me. Thanks for being a heavy sleeper.
Endless foosball ... How good was that!
Bob Armstrong for endless weekend movies. I still have an unusual appreciation for film.
Cardinal Beer, café cappuccino, pizza at that little place just down the street.
Herbie Schmidtlapp .. our four-legged friend.
Not all of us have extremely fond memories of the Villa, but we all have at least one good, favorite memory.
Best wishes to each of you,
--Jim
The photos here may be less noteworthy than their source --- from disks mailed to the Villa St. Jean alumni world headquarters from China and the offices of Kevin Di Palma. Mr. Di Palma, class of '67, was, you'll recall, the owner/operator of the villastjean.com web site.
He sent this offices disks from the site, and our summer intern staff is busily extracting individual photos and files..
Stay tuned..
the editors
