Class of 1949
Eve Goss ‘49
At the age of 93, Eve continues to enjoy gardening and community life in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire. At the 2024 Sandwich Fair on October 13 she won the top prizes for her Organic Butternut Squashes. She is storing her winter vegetables in her cool dry barn and looks forward to enjoying them during the long winter ahead.
Class of 1957
As reported By John Schwartz ’57
Some of you may not have seen the old Friends neighborhood in many years. I can update you, since I live about a five minute walk from the school, which is much larger than we remember: not only did it build a new building after we graduated in 1957, but it later acquired and remodeled buildings on 16th Street, so that the main entrance is more than halfway to Third Avenue. The exterior of the Meetinghouse is unchanged, but inside, in addition to a fresher coat of paint, the benches with open spaces for ladies’ bustles are now distributed on both sides of the middle aisle. Local restaurants and pizzerias have come and gone, but my favorite new coffee shop, called “Cupsoul,” on Third Avenue and 16th Street, has survived despite nearby competition from Starbucks, I like to think because its staff feeds local dogs (it is wildly popular among the dogs of the neighborhood) and its sound system avoids rock ‘n’ roll (I once heard there jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux, daughter of our classmate Deirdre Malone Westgate ’57). Peter Stuyvesant’s statue still stands in Stuyvesant Park, although the face mask he wore during the Covid-19 pandemic is now gone; the park is still one of New York’s most relaxing.
Class of 1973
As reported By Barbara Michelson ’73
On Saturday, November 2, I and a large number of FS alumni attended Caleb Carr ’73’s memorial service at St. Luke’s School where Caleb and a number of classmates who joined for high school were in elementary school. It was a wonderful tribute to a great and tricky friend, a true intellect and successful writer, a jokester, and a very important uncle among many attributes.
As reported By Lisa Mierop ’73
My husband and I are presently in southeastern Sicily moving into a farmhouse we purchased and have been renovating over a two year period. It’s been a long and often frustrating business navigating the Sicilian dialects and business methods from thousands of miles away, however, we are thrilled with the results. We are naming the house ‘Dolce Far Niente’ (a longtime favored expression) which is how I hope to spend my time here—happily ‘doing nothing’. It’s a dream that will never happen because the work is endless on a farm, to which our beloved classmate, Barbara Michelson ’73, will concur :). My daughter Emma, now 31, has a thriving online business (skippycotton.com) and sells her whimsical embroidered crafts and gifts domestically and internationally. I’m still busy designing and building upscale gardens for residential properties in Northern New Jersey and, although slowing pacing and project scopes, not jumping yet into retirement. Life is good!! -Lisa
Class of 2016
A bill sponsored by New York City Councilman Chi Osse ’16 was recently approved. The bill would curb a loathed New York City real estate practice: making renters pay thousands of dollars in broker fees. Click here to read more.
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